3/11/2024 0 Comments Bean animal overflow kitWater changes and cleaning in the new tank has also become less stressful compared to my earlier grow-out tank. I just have to change these socks weekly, along with 20-30% water change. My main mechanical filtration is with 100 Micron Filter Socks, they are 8cm in Dia and does wonderful filtration the entire sump tank remains so neat and clean and media too. The filter chamber holds enough and more media (almost 7-8 times compared to my earlier canister filter). Sump: Due to the Stand design, we had to have the sump tank as 2 separate tanks interconnected, one to hold the media and the other to act as a return chamber and hold good quantity of filtered water. In order to provide maximum load distribution and strength, we had to provide the support legs at the center too, and this aspect we had to consider while deciding on the sump tank. Stand: Obviously the stand was the most crucial part of the whole thing. During this process, I had also decided to go with Bean Animal Overflow system, since all other system had the issue with noise, and I wanted the system to be silent. Also decided that we go with Sump filtration, earlier I was using Canisters for my grow-out tank. I had finalized the size 6ft X 2.5Ft X 2 Ft. So decided to do a custom built tank and started putting the plan together. The grow-out tank itself I got with great difficulty, after searching and waiting for many weeks. Thinking of upgrading his current tank we bought as his Grow-Out, I started searching for a ready made tank and was unable to get one in my city after searching for many weeks. Obviously I would have like a house with a pond, which may be for future!ĭecision to go for a 220G: We have an Asian Arowana, we call him Flash (My dedicated THREAD) and it was his 2 year anniversary with us. Given the constraints where I live, wrt the construction of the multi-storied apartments, size of the house, space in living room and availability of materials and the frequent movement of house that may be needed related to work, this was the max size that we could go with currently. Preamble: It is a 220 G aquarium tank, and not in the league of many other tank many of the members in this forum have. My 220G Aquarium Tank Build with Bean Animal Overflow and Sump:
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