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Originally Posted by plantbrain
The design: the biggest is the high loss of CO2 since the wet/dry section is exposed to the air. If it had a sealable lid, then you'd greatly improve the CO2 situation. You might come up with a good solution there.
eg: Some sealing insulation tape and a glass lid with a latch etc.
Good prefilter design, no overflow, clean that sponge weekly or every 2 weeks and it should really keep things clean. If you added a needle wheel, say a Rio 1000 with a snipped impeller that fed into the suction side of the return pump, then you'd get really good CO2.
I've never liked fluvals 
Rena, Ehiem etc.
Your system has a lot of good aspects for automated water changing. I'd try and hard plumb those into the system if you own the home etc.
Then turn a valve to drain(water go to the landscaping), turn another to refill,(from aging tank or tap).
Makes the the water change easy.
Nice skills putting it together.
A lot of thought went into it.
Regards,
Tom Barr |
Thanks Tom.
Always nice getting feedback from the Pros.
Scrapped that whole plan and filter for something bigger and better.
Twice the size, incorporating some similar feature like you said
and on the other side of the wall in the garage in an insulated DIY box.
24L x 18W x 24H ... about 40 gallons
Keeping those dems. you can use off the shelf 24x18 sheets of 1/4" acrylic
from Lowes. Drastically reduces number of cuts you have to make.
