Risc I have a question for you!!!
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risc
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WHOA! ... you better start saving up man... you are going to need way more filtration. A Magnum 350 only turns a 125 gallon tank first of all. When you have a shark consider your tank 1/2 that. So about a 60 gallon is all your 350 can handle. You should get yourself a Amircle Wet/Dry first of all. That is almost a must to keep your nitrate levels down. Thats going to cost you anywhere from $220 to $400 depending on your supplier and where you buy it. You will need a protien skimmer. I suggest a turbo venturi or at least a venturi. Red Sea makes a very good Berlin Turbo Venturi skimmer, in the hang-on style and the stand up style. You may even want a Magnum 250 to accompany it or an Emperor 400. You could avoid that by putting on a Rainbow lifeguard fluidized bed filter. You should make sure you have all of your filtration bases cover, mechanical , biological, chemical... having all 4 of those filters you are going to have ideal water clarity and quality as long as you do your monthly maintaince.
Jim
Jim
mark-24
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Well, that's the first time I've seen a wet/dry made in a trash can, but it should work. Wet/dry filters are easily made out of smaller aquarium(s) (in your case I would say a 20 or 25, look for a used one, and the bigger the better), rubbermade tubs, and now trash cans. I really dont know why trickle filters are so expensive, they're really easy to make. I would have made mine, but the place that I bought my tank sold me a used wet/dry (w/ biomedia), a Marine Tech Concepts Pro-6500 (worth almost $400 new), a Ehiem pump, a Ebo Jager heater, and a some small misc stuff all for $300.
-Mark
-Mark
mark-24
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The filter floss is kinda like cotton stuffing. Most lfs should carry pretty good sized bags of it for like $2 or so. I put it on top on the bio media, and a first it was white, now, it's all brown and I know I need to change it, but I've been pretty bussy.
Yeah, I do think that a coffee can lid w/ holes in it could work, but you're gonna want a wet/dry that's bigger than that. So what I suggest is to look up in the phone book 'plastics' and find one that's near you and ask if they sell acrlyic sheets to the public. They're really cheap, and the acrlyic sheets just come in handy for alot of different stuff, so just worth having some. But anyway talk to someone that works there, and you might want to ask them if they could cut a circle to a specific size if you dont have the tools that you need. Cutting circles out of wood is pretty difficult, but cutting it out of acrlyic is a little harder. You want to cut with the saw and not melt it with the friction produced. So, get a hair drier out to cool it off while your cutting, oh it will smell pretty bad when you cut it, that's normal. So cut it with a jigsaw, that's the easiest way that you could do it. Then you need to get drill, find what size hole you want, I'm not too sure, but the more the better. Make sure that they're evenly distributed throughout. And that's really it. If you have any specfic questions, feel free to ask. I'll probally have to ask my dad when he comes home tom.
-Mark
Yeah, I do think that a coffee can lid w/ holes in it could work, but you're gonna want a wet/dry that's bigger than that. So what I suggest is to look up in the phone book 'plastics' and find one that's near you and ask if they sell acrlyic sheets to the public. They're really cheap, and the acrlyic sheets just come in handy for alot of different stuff, so just worth having some. But anyway talk to someone that works there, and you might want to ask them if they could cut a circle to a specific size if you dont have the tools that you need. Cutting circles out of wood is pretty difficult, but cutting it out of acrlyic is a little harder. You want to cut with the saw and not melt it with the friction produced. So, get a hair drier out to cool it off while your cutting, oh it will smell pretty bad when you cut it, that's normal. So cut it with a jigsaw, that's the easiest way that you could do it. Then you need to get drill, find what size hole you want, I'm not too sure, but the more the better. Make sure that they're evenly distributed throughout. And that's really it. If you have any specfic questions, feel free to ask. I'll probally have to ask my dad when he comes home tom.
-Mark
d. digler
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Hey, depending on the thickness of the acrylic, if you don't feel like taking the time to cut it with a saw or want to deal with the melting issues-try scoring it with a blade of some sort. Box cutters work really well. Then line it up in between any door and the wall. Close the door on it to hold, then pull or push hard on the acrylic along the scored line and it should snap pretty easy. Thats how I made the pieces for my sump.
just something to try
just something to try
von_rahvin
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try a dremel, i just built a wet dry out of plexi glass and a rubbermade 
it works great, i custom fit it. if you want some pics, email me Von_Rahvin@yahoo.com, the filter ended up to have the biomedia storage area of around a 300 gallon and besides the pump and 4 hrs work only cost me 40 bucks beats the heck out of 400
it works great, i custom fit it. if you want some pics, email me Von_Rahvin@yahoo.com, the filter ended up to have the biomedia storage area of around a 300 gallon and besides the pump and 4 hrs work only cost me 40 bucks beats the heck out of 400