Hi I need to pick your brains as I'm drawing a blank the now, I am setting up a 350L corner tank from APS but I'm having some issues with setting up my filtration.
The tanks corner comes already cut off and set up into a weir system where they want you to stick some sponges and a power head, I want to run 2x 2000lph externals on it and thought this would be a piece of cake even with the weir system as I'd use it to hide my heaters and filter inlets
like so:
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Filter media was set up so the inlet positioned at the weir inlet was mainly sponges and floss since it would be the one that should pick up the most wast , (thoughts were, clean this one loads and the other one just once in a blue moon)
Tank has now been filled with sand and water, stuck the first filter on and it immediately started sucking up some sand so repositioned the inlet further up the weir, problem solved I thought. Turn the other filter on all looks good until I notice the first inlet is sucking up sand again! can't really move it much further up. The suction is just too strong when both are on that it lifts the sand up the weir.
I thought about cutting a sponge in the shape of the weir compartment and sticking it underneath the filter inlet, but access is awkward and I'm worried that it will choke up constantly
Anyone any suggestions on how to solve this without loosing filtration or moving suction inlets into the main tank?
The tanks corner comes already cut off and set up into a weir system where they want you to stick some sponges and a power head, I want to run 2x 2000lph externals on it and thought this would be a piece of cake even with the weir system as I'd use it to hide my heaters and filter inlets
like so:
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Filter media was set up so the inlet positioned at the weir inlet was mainly sponges and floss since it would be the one that should pick up the most wast , (thoughts were, clean this one loads and the other one just once in a blue moon)
Tank has now been filled with sand and water, stuck the first filter on and it immediately started sucking up some sand so repositioned the inlet further up the weir, problem solved I thought. Turn the other filter on all looks good until I notice the first inlet is sucking up sand again! can't really move it much further up. The suction is just too strong when both are on that it lifts the sand up the weir.
I thought about cutting a sponge in the shape of the weir compartment and sticking it underneath the filter inlet, but access is awkward and I'm worried that it will choke up constantly
Anyone any suggestions on how to solve this without loosing filtration or moving suction inlets into the main tank?