I'm actually still working on the 2,000 gallon aquarium, however. It's only filling right now and in the meantime
I have to keep it moving. There's still far more fish tanks to set up out here in the aquarium gallery specifically the
375 gallon planted Aquarium, and that's exactly what we're going to talk about in today's video. more specifically
We're going to talk about the filtration. as for the 375 gallon tank
You guys remember I built this tank a couple of years ago, or maybe a little bit more than a year ago
It's 8 feet long
2 feet tall and 3 feet wide holding that
375 gallons of water. currently, it's stocked with my Blue Base, Cross-Back Asian Arowana
But he's going into that 2,000 gallon aquarium. as for the stand, well this stand is too big to get out of my house
I'd have to take it apart what I want to do is take this aquarium
And simply move it on to an existing stand as for the stand, though
You see we've already actually built the aquarium stand for and a little office area, so this portion of the build is completed
But now back to the idea of filtration. What are we going to do? I have a few options
I know that I've already built the tank I've already built the stand and I was probably going to build the filter as well
However, I have a bunch of large filters already here my one thought was why don't I use the hundred gallon sump (sub pump) that this is?
already on well two reasons
I'm going to be using all of that media on the 2,000 gallon aquarium all of that cycled
Biological Media means that that 2,000 gallon aquarium starts up and can be stocked right away
The sump itself though is designed to be a fluidized filter, so I'd have to rip it all apart
So then I thought what about if I use the filter on the pre-existing
370 Gallon Plywood in Wall Aquarium nothing wrong with that idea either this however is only a
66 go or a 70 gallon sump and it's a wet dry meaning that
It's like a trickle tower all of the water trickles and rains over the media within the sump
But downside to this is the sump isn't big enough
So then I thought why don't I just dig into some of my old equipment? I certainly have a lot of it
So I dug through a lot of my old equipment and came across my old eheim
2262 a canister filter rated for up to 400 gallons
It holds a tremendous amount of Media which would most likely support the Livestock
I have planned for the 375. plus, I could plum an inline Co2 diffuser into it so
It's kind of the perfect option and to be honest with you
This was where i was going with this is what I was leaning towards
Until I got a call the call actually came from Steve bashi you guys might know him from his company bashi
Aquatics or perhaps his website Bashsea.com most importantly
I actually did a tour of his facility back in Detroit a few months ago, and it's by far my favorite tour
I've done of the facility of that nature with that said. He said I heard about the aquarium gallery
I love what you're doing. Is there anything you need from me, and I had to tell them no Steve
I actually don't need anything. I'm completely setup
I have everything I need and anything that I don't have is on its way, so thanks for the offer
But I don't need anything right now. He said well walk me through your systems
Maybe there's something I can do for you. We talked about the two thousand Gallon aquarium
We talked about the, you know, the racking system with the ten hundred twenty gallon tank then we got to that planted aquarium.
I Told them about my options for filtration, and it came down to me probably going to use a simple canister filter
And he says look let me build you a sump for it. What do you have in mind?
I said you know what I'm going to take this opportunity for the first time ever to say
Surprise me and that he did. I don't know what's in here, but if you like what you see
You can go to bashsea.com and get your own
But you can't have mine. I don't know how I'm going to get into this
I Do know that he did a theme for this and did specific colors, but other than that. I don't know what he's done here
Oh my-....what?
oh wow....
Okay, let's jump to this setup. This is by far the sexiest planted aquarium sump ever created
What? a walking staff?. Ooh a t-shirt large, my size
Love it
Got to put it on
fits perfect, okay
I got to stop this video in its tracks because that portion of the video that you just watched was actually filmed
Early last week I wanted to set this up at least on a closed loop system
To show you guys it's an action and how it's working however apparently somebody locally has been buying up all the plumbing supply
So I got to wait for more stuff to arrive however
We will circle back eventually when we set this up on the tank
And I'll show you exactly how this works and in action when that happens
But you know let's summarize the tank and then go through how it's going to operate and of course how I'm going to utilize it
first and Foremost the tank is five feet long two feet wide and stands 20 inches tall hold about
125 gallons of water the entire construction is made out of acrylic in both black as well as green
Black being the dominant color in the gallery and Green of course
Accenting the planted theme idea that log package wasn't a walking staff
It was actually more plumbing supplies that Steve sent
He loves to make sure that everything matches
So this is going to look absolutely amazing once setup now the way this works is simple on the other end
There's some inputs these are basically the drains that are coming from the main aquarium those drains are going to enter the sump
Overflow over the first baffle and through those three large filter socks those filter socks are actually quite large
And they're not going to clog very often plus
They're going to be easy to remove and rinse off and they're going to last me a lifetime
So I really appreciated the fact that I don't have to constantly purchase or you know replace
Mechanical media after it's done being mechanically filtered you know removing all the particles from the water
It's going to flow through this second baffle here that has that screen in it
This is where we get to the biological filtration and the water can now be filtered through the biological
Tower this canister holds about 25 litres of water
I believe and it's a fluidized media within it bashsea aquatics actually makes their own
Fluidized Media and it comes in a few different colors
so you could truly match it to
You know the rest of the stump if you wanted to water is going to pump up to it through the top and then out
Through the side here, and I can control the flow with this gate valve if needed
the media is then fluidized with the supplied air pump that steve sent me water then flows over through this last baffle now
This baffle is interesting because it has a sliding wall where I can adjust the water height in the entire sump
I'm most likely going to run it at its highest height
Just to have the sump filled to about half the volume so I get a lot more volume of water in the main display
Half fills will give me about 60 gallons plus the 375 gallons would you know be well over 400 gallons
Once it comes through this portion of the sump and that's where we get to these
Reactors over here on the other side again black and green all color-Coded. This is like
I said this is one sexy sump now these reactors
are like mini canister filters where we can put whatever type of media We want in here and not get any bypass
So I've got two of them
I'm thinking maybe I'll fill one up with activated Carbon and the other one maybe with some other sort of biological
Media if I need to supplement it but options are kind of endless here to add the media
We just unscrew the knobs here give the canister topic a twist
and It opens up. We can now add in whatever Media
We want and we have two
Pre-Filter sponges so that the media doesn't get into the pumps or release into the aquarium plus
It gives a little bit more mechanical filtration. now, If I don't want to put them in here
I can also, there's plenty of room to put them over in the biological compartment
So that everything is kind of being processed at the same time and this opens this entire compartment up
Maybe I set up a refugium
Maybe a little you know a hospital area or quarantine system
Or you know maybe I grow some plants a little bit more there who knows what we're going to use it for I just love
The idea that even though this, uh, this is a customized sump used for specific reasons
It still has a ton of flexibility to it after we reach the final chamber here
We actually have to flow through the back through more slots where there's some matala mat in here. Which is typically used for
Biological and even some mechanical filtration, but at this stage
It's mainly going to serve as a biological filtration compartment once the water finally flows through the bottom of this compartment
We get to the return Pump. now, Here's how I think I'm going to be setting it up
I believe I'm going to be putting all of the canisters in this one compartment. the pump down here is a vectra M1 by Ecotec
it's not only going to feed the biological filtration
But I'm going to have a T on there with a ball valve that is going to feed
One of these reactors. water will flow through it and out the top into the next reactor water will flow through that and then
Return to the bottom of the tank here finally giving me this entire open space that I'm excited to use
I don't know what I'm going to do specifically
But I'd love to know what you guys would do if you had this compartment and your sump. would you use it as a refugium?
Would you add in, you know, use it for a place to
you know
Acclimate fish to the aquarium or acclimate plants or, you know, what would you do? let me know in the comment section below
All I know though is that this is one heck of an upgrade from this canister filter
There's a ton of other features that I haven't talked about like all of the inputs and outputs
Surrounding the system where I could put in auto top offs or sensors or dosers of some sort in and around the tank
Probably more than I'll ever need but who knows we might end up utilizing all of it
This is definitely a very high-tech type of sump for this planted aquarium
And I'm excited to see what it's capable of
Again, It was this or use the canister filter
So I think you guys knew what my answer was going to be. anyways guys hoping you enjoyed today's video
I'd also like to thank you for watching and if you join me this coming Sunday
We're going to move some fish into the 2000 gallon aquarium