My Diy Filter For My Small Tank

[Ficious]

ok guys! ive found a diy project for me. i have a small tank and dont have a good filter..just underground. id like to have it so i dont need to do constant water changed to keep them healthy. the tank sits 12 inches high and each panel of the hex is 4-5 inches. its got a full hood and light with enough room to slip a few more air hoses through. SO i think...i can make a constant two way siphon with the hoses. as for now i can use things from my house to be temporary, but effecient and effective. as i wander hardware stores or pet shops, ill pick up things when i see them.

its going to be some sort of canister to hold it just below the level of the tank...for good siphoning. so far i have this cylindrical pitcher that looks decent next to the tank. im going to fill it 3/4 full of water so i can set my (component) on it to float. i am thinking of this as i go so i dont have all the ideas down. i need something to float, a concave, box, or bowl will do. i need it to be able to have a flow. water comming in, going through filter media..etc. the output needs to end up somewhere so i dont just have a still bowl of water. i need flowage! the clean water would be flushed back into the tank.


anyone done this?? this is a rough draft but will this work???

 

[rabbut]

Not 100% on what you are asking, but I'll throw in my ideas to see if they are relivant...

Why not fit an pump to the inside of the tank, with a pipe going to the filter above the tank. This avoids risks of the thing leaking an drining too much water If a leak forms, you will expose the pump, which will then stop the water getting out of the tank. This pump will puch water into a container at the top of the tank, and the water passes down through the inside of the container, to the bottom. Drill a hole in the bottom of the container and fit another pipe to it. Fix this in the tank. The water will return then via gravity, stopping the need for any more pumps It's basically a trickle filter, only above the tank with water being pumped into it, rater than water syponing into it and them being pumped back to the tank. Trickle filters typically need the tank to be drilled. This tub avove the tank avoids this cafuffle

HTH
Rabbut

 

[Ficious]

thats not a bad idea...my idea didnt work...or at least is going to be very difficult to. you have to have the two hoses exactly level to the tank at the same time and is almost impossible..