Diy hob fuge

orginal filter



orginal filter



filter cover



lights it's made by GE and is a 13" cabinet light



lights



Cut the top



Cuting the little pices out



Final cut




perfict fit





lights on



dark room with only fuge light on



side view



timer



ditch filter pads



FTS tank lights off fuge light on

 

Very nice. Good DYI using a hob filter.

 

Cool, how did you get it to not be to powerful. I used an old filter also and the power was to much. It kept blowing everything around.

 

what do you mean

 

The pump is what I meant. Did you slow the flow at all? My filter was a whirl wind inside until I put in a false wall. something to deflect the water.

 

i have one of those black sponges in the part where water comes from also today i took the plastic from the blue filter pads and used them as a guard so no large objects can come in or go out i'll post pics soon

 

here's what i did today i took the blue filter pads and removed the blue stuff and the carbon leaving just the plastic piece.



filter pad



making the cut



almost there



this is when i thought a razor blade would work better than a knife and sicssors



i was right



Carbon removed also


the edges in the filter only fit in one spot with the groves so i cut the outter edge out



the outter edge cut



the fit

notice i left the peices for thr bio wheels there



glued the bio wheel peice so the gauard would stay in place



cut every other peice for more flow



the bio wheel peice


have to give credit to where credit is due Thank you Cat4wisson

o doing this also reduced the flow alot so much that i had to cut some of the slots as seen above

 

No problem, keep us posted on how well the cheto grows and if your pod population increases very much. I have the same filter and even with a fuge have thought about doing the same thing to help out feeding my mandarin.

Nice mod

Cat4wisson

 

my pod population is very good as is right now they are starting to get anoying now because they are awayls on the glass

 

if this works... i have the same filter pretty much... and I do want a mandarin... and my tank is older now... I might do this in another month or two...

so what's the idea with that? you put in some chaeto, dump in a bottle of pods and then they just multiply in the chaeto and overflow out? And they just reproduce in there and that's it?

I like this idea DR Cool. Following this thread so I'll see any future updates