Shark pond filtration?

juston515

juston515

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Sounds great if you catch some Sharpnoses before we do I'll trade you the nurse for at least 2 Atlantic Sharpnoses. Talk to ya later
 
ac

ac

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The wife just gave up her room in the basement. Can you say SHARK POND
Now the fun, construction.
 
ac

ac

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What skimmer are you guys using on your shark ponds. I'm thinking a pond filtration unit for the biological filter, but where do you find large skimmers?
 
sebae09

sebae09

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I showed you a pic of the pond filter that i use on my pond. look on ebaydotcom for the skimmers i have found some huge ones on there. i havent gotten one yet.
 
ac

ac

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sebae09 what kind of pump do you use to pump to the pond filters. Now that I've got a space for the pond it looks like it will be an oval about 10' X 5' X 24 inches deep. I was thinking maybe a couple of the filters you use then an overflow to gravity feed a sump with a UV sterilizer and skimmer. Any thoughts? :thinking:
 
sebae09

sebae09

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How many gallons did you come up with when you did the math?I got 659 but i might be wrong. Your on the right track but your going to need something bigger than a sump,something to put alot of LR in it alot cant be in the pond. I dont think you will need the UV sterilizer considering sharks cant get ich, it would just hurt your biological bacteria. a skimmer is a definate for a shark. I would have a good wet/dry or fluidized bed filter on it also, feeding fresh seafood realeases alot of ammonia into the water.
 
ac

ac

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it will be about 800 gallons(I think) starting now basically. I need to get stuff cleared out of the room but I'm basically in construction planning mode.
 
sebae09

sebae09

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i drew what i would do on a paper but this is on paint so it kinda sucks lol and i had to cut some of the ovel off to make it fit.
 
sebae09

sebae09

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than on the output have it covered up except for maybe a few bulkheads than have pumps pushing water out of the LR container, the surface skimmer will equalize the input with the output as long as its level. i would also have some mangroves or chetomorpha in the LR contaner.
 
ac

ac

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I'm looking into a custom wet/dry that has about 4 cu. ft. of biological filtration capacity and a protein skimmer with ozone. I'm not set on this, still doing research.
 
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