Shrimp tank filtration

[blindfisherman]

Im setting up a new tank soon and this is still an area I'm a bit undecided on.

My current thinking is to have the end 15 cm of the tank as an internal sump.

The thought is to have a sponge prefilter section going into 6L of jap mat or matrix then through 2L of K1 in about 6L of water

Then pump through the chiller at about 1000L/h

This is for a 4 foot tank and shrimp.

I will add sponge filters to each section for them to feed on.

Do you think this would be sufficient?

The reason I'm going for the sump over canister is the media capacity and the ease of cleaning

[Sprae]

Interesting idea. Internal sump pump to chiller and back to tank sounds fine.

[blindfisherman]

Interesting idea. Internal sump pump to chiller and back to tank sounds fine.

Yeah, it is something a bit different.

My idea is that is has more media volume, easier to clean and cheaper than a canister.

The only real down side is I would lose 15 cm of tank space.

Also it doesn't require any plumbing for an external sump and the pump should also be more efficient as the head height with be negligible.

After working out how to keep the buggers out of my 30L nano internal sump I think it will easy to construct.

[wayne6442]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]786[/ATTACH]I have a similar idea running on my four outside tanks, I have devided the bottom 2ft tank by a third and use various types of filter pads as filter medium. my return water falls into the two third space and is drawn through the pads by the chiller pump and thepond pump that pumps the water to the tanks above.simple and so far effective.