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Posted by Wayne Sallee on May 11, 2006, 4:25 pm
Please log in for more thread options No you don't need a sump for a 20 gallon tank.
Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets
Wayne@WaynesPets.com
Cindy wrote on 5/11/2006 1:42 PM:
> Bioballs are best used out of water with water trickling
> over them. They do work under water, but do their best
> work out of water with water trickling over them.
>
> For reef tank, just use live rock and live sand filtering,
> and a protein skimmer.
>
> Wayne Sallee
> ___________________________
> Yeah, I know. But I have this tank with a built-in filter I'm trying to
> make use of. It's made like a power filter, in the back right corner of the
> tank, except the entire left side is screened for the water to flow in, then
> it goes over the first section, and under the last section. Right now I
> have it stuffed with bioballs and a powerhead pumping the water through and
> back into the tank.
>
> I could use it for an overflow box, but it's only a 20-gal. tank and I don't
> really need a sump.
>
> What if I just planted a mangrove in it? :) Or I could remove the screen,
> and critters could hide in it. I'd have to take the tank apart to remove
> it.
>
> Cindy
>
>
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> over them. They do work under water, but do their best
> work out of water with water trickling over them.
>
> For reef tank, just use live rock and live sand filtering,
> and a protein skimmer.
>
> Wayne Sallee
> ___________________________
> Yeah, I know. But I have this tank with a built-in filter I'm trying to
> make use of. It's made like a power filter, in the back right corner of the
> tank, except the entire left side is screened for the water to flow in, then
> it goes over the first section, and under the last section. Right now I
> have it stuffed with bioballs and a powerhead pumping the water through and
> back into the tank.
>
> I could use it for an overflow box, but it's only a 20-gal. tank and I don't
> really need a sump.
>
> What if I just planted a mangrove in it? :) Or I could remove the screen,
> and critters could hide in it. I'd have to take the tank apart to remove
> it.
>
> Cindy
>
>