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Hey guys, just finished building an overhead trickle filter and figured I'd share for feedback. Anyone else here running overhead filters?
Here's a crappy Iphone video
https://vid.me/pTe3
Plumbing: 1" Bulkhead on the intake and a 2" on the drain. The pvc in the filter has 70-80 holes which ended up spreading the water better than I had hoped for.
Pump: Rio 1400, hadn't planned on putting this filter so high above the tank so there will be a pump upgrade in the near future.
Media: 500ish bioballs, 3" sheet of poret foam (in the mail) and Quilt batting at the top. The bioballs sit on a supported sheet of light diffuser just above the the drain.
Here's a crappy Iphone video
https://vid.me/pTe3
Plumbing: 1" Bulkhead on the intake and a 2" on the drain. The pvc in the filter has 70-80 holes which ended up spreading the water better than I had hoped for.
Pump: Rio 1400, hadn't planned on putting this filter so high above the tank so there will be a pump upgrade in the near future.
Media: 500ish bioballs, 3" sheet of poret foam (in the mail) and Quilt batting at the top. The bioballs sit on a supported sheet of light diffuser just above the the drain.