DIY Trickle Filter - Blackford
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DIY trickle filter plan
by blac0009-at-gold.tc.umn.edu (Matthew J Blackford) (Sat, 1 Oct 1994)
DIY trickle filter plan ...
Trickle Filter
The trickle filter is a must have for a larger fish-only aquarium but is not required for the reef aquarium.
Trickle Filters
Trickle or wet-dry filters drip or spray aquarium water over a medium. This maximizes oxygen saturation and provides excellent biofiltration. These units are extremely efficient at converting ammonia to nitrate.
Trickle Filter: This form of a wet/dry filter provides primarily filtration. Water is dripped over some media (e.g., Bio-Balls), which are also exposed to the air. This promotes very efficient nitrification.
Trickle Filter - A wet/dry filter where water is dripped over a plastic media which is also
exposed to the open air. This promotes very good bacterial growth.
Trickle Filter - A wet and dry filter where water is dripped over plastic gravel like media which is also exposed to the open air. This promotes good bacterial growth.
trickle filter - A wet dry filter using a drip plate to disperse the water over bio-media.
Trickle Filter: A biological filtration system which consists of a plastic chamber with a biological filtration media. Water runs through the media, which mixes with the air, and reacts with the bacteria which serve to remove ammonia and nitrites.
Trickle Filters
A filtration system where water is slowly dripped over some medium that is exposed to the air. The air helps to enhance the nitrification process. The filter medium usually consists of small plastic balls or strips of plastic.
Trickle Filter - A type of Bio-filter in which water to be purified trickles over the media held in a tray or chamber not submerged in water. This increases the amount of oxygen available to the bacteria, promoting Nitrification.
USING A TRICKLE FILTER AS A SUMP BOX
In perspective, the recommended filtration is still basically a trickle filter, without the media.
Trickle filters allow water to freely flow out of the tank and fall at its own rate through biological filter media.
Trickle filter Slow filter, often involving inert granules, sand or algal system. Anaerobic types convert nitrates back to free nitrogen.
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Trickle Filters - Biological filters where water is trickled over filter media and exposed to air to help the Nitrification process. Click here to read our filtration guide.
Turnover - The rate of how much water flows within an aquarium.
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Wet Dry Trickle Filters
Back when the reef tank concept was introduced to the U.S in 1983 it consisted of a glass tank that had a filtration unit below.
Freshwater Trickle filters offer the most filtration for large seriously stocked tanks.
2.3 Wet/dry trickle filters
2.4 Service
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Also known as trickle filters, wet/dry filters work on the principle that the beneficial colonies of ammonia neutralizing bacteria grow best in the presence of well oxygenated water.
Wet/Dry & Trickle Filters
The purpose of this article is to discuss wet/dry filters and who and what requires a system with this type of filtration.
Examples are under gravel filters, sponge filters, and trickle filters. brackish Water that part-way between freshwater and marine. A number of species prefer partly-salty water.
Filter Types Freshwater Trickle filters offer the most filtration for large seriously stocked tanks. External Canister filers like the PRIME, EHEIM, FLUVAL or VIA AQUA are the best of the commercially available filters.
Filter or pump outlet - spray bar - trickle filter - bio-wheel:
Principle: After the water flows through the filter, it has to return to the tank in one way or another.
Many kinds, sizes, and shapes of trickle filters have been in use since they were introduced.
Trickle filters, surface overflows, high output lighting, calcium additions, etc. were all new concepts in the US, and our learning curve was a steep one indeed.
Common filtration devices that we use include trickle filters, sumps, protein skimmers, dosing systems, natural algae filters (algae scrubber), denitrifiers, reactors, controllers, monitors, etc.
The Wet/dry Filter is also known as a trickle filter. It uses a pump to remove water from the tank and then pass it down a tower. The tower is filled with material such as bioballs for biological filtration.
This water can then be directed into a trickle filter, a sump full of live rock or whatever else. Inside the sump you can install your heaters to warm the water, you can add a chiller or throw in some bottles of frozen water when it gets warm.
This was a normal evolution of the trickle filter approach, to the sump and live rock approach, and then finally the sump and live rock with the addition of live sand method.
What we normally do in this case is to use trickle filters coupled with denitrifiers,
or skip the denitrifier and do more regular water changes of larger amounts.
In addition, they are compatible with a number of different filtration systems including wet/dry trickle filters, and single or multistage canister systems.
They can be used to hold biological filter media (wet/dry or trickle filters are just glorified sumps) or growing plants (as in refugia and mangrove tanks) or other organisms that purify the water.
The tank comes pre-drilled with several holes and an overflow box which are plumbed to a second smaller "sump" tank, which contains a trickle filter or other filtration process.
This slow bubbling must be dissolved in your aquarium's water, through either a gas reactor (which lets water and gas mix in a chamber much like a trickle filter), an inverted jar (which just lets the gas diffuse into the water slowly), ...
So for a 20 gallon tank your filter should do atleast 100 gph, for a 50 gallon it should do 250-300 gph. Try to avoid wet/dry filters, sumps and trickle filters as the added air contact aids in CO2 loss.
 See also: Filter, Water, Aquarium, Fish, Filtration
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