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09-03-2004, 07:38 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Weston, FL,Florida
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 |  Wet dry with sep. sump?
HI, I recently rented a home in Fla that has an aquarium in the wall. It appears to be a 75 gallon with a wet dry type of filtration system wich is hidden underneath. It has two parts. One looks like a 75 gallon pro series wet/dry - http://www.proclearaquaticsystems.co...075_207510.jpg
The other side looks like another wet dry(without the skimmer) along with a pump inside that shoots the water back up thru the overflow (discharge tube). I'm assuming it was set up as a salt water aquarium at one time. Would this type of set up be good for fresh water also? Plus, with pvc pipe above both boxes, how do you change out the blue filter media? There's a new one on the outside and if I decide to tackle this, I want to know about the up keep. There were no instruction booklets. The last time I kept an aquarium was in the early 80's. A 55gal with a couple of power filters is what im accustomed too. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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09-03-2004, 04:28 PM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Tyler, Texas
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| Re: Wet dry with sep. sump?
Hi Dom1 and welcome to our group!
That's pretty cool to rent a home that has a built in tank. I know you will have fun with it.
I'll leave your question up to the experts here as I am new to the hobby, but I just wanted to say WELCOME!
Cindy 
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12 gl Nano reef and 120 gl reef,fish,coral; 160 lbs. of LR, 250 lbs of LS. Aqua C EV 180 skimmer,&PC lighting. A new 44 gl sump/fuge (to be installed). Regal Tang, Yellow Tang, Foxface, 2 Lyre tail Anthias, 2 Blue-Green Chromis, Clarki Clown, Coral Beauty, Spotted Hawk Fish, Pink spotted goby,Open Brains, Crocea Clam , Mandarin, Skunk Clown, Huge BTA and lots of LPS. | |
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09-03-2004, 05:29 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Wet dry with sep. sump?
It would seem you have several options, saltwater...or nice planted freshwater, discus...??, angels...hmmmmm lots of choices...
Could you post pics of the setup and perhaps someone here would be able to help you with the equipment
How exciting! A new tank!!!! Welcome, BTW _________ http://www.3reef.com/uploads/BirdSig3.jpgI Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date Started 9/04 58 gallon Oceanic Tank, 20 gal DIY sump/fuge w/ Kent Marine Auto top-off, Air Water Ice RO/DI, 10,000 K 175 W MH, 2 VHO 03's 96W each, AquaC EV 120 Skimmer
80 lbs LR, DSB in FUGE, 1 - 2 " LS in tank
Black Brittle Star, Chevron Tang, Crocea Clam, red & green Lobophyllia, Frogspawn, Porites Frag, Caulastrea Frag, Green Ricordia, Asst. Zoas, hermits, astreas, stomatellas, fighting conch | |
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09-03-2004, 05:32 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Wet dry with sep. sump?
Oh yeah, someone here gave me this link... http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/volume
and now I pass it to you....it will help you figure the exact volumes of the tanks, sumps, etc...you will need that. Measure the inside dimensions to get accurate results  | |
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09-04-2004, 05:32 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Weston, FL,Florida
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| Re: Wet dry with sep. sump?
Ok, here's some pictures, I filled it up last night, no leaks. the filter, pump, etc appear to be working fine. From the pics, am i going to have to remove the pvc pipe to get to the blue filter media?
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09-04-2004, 05:34 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Weston, FL,Florida
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| Re: Wet dry with sep. sump?
Here's the other. There's also a uv sterilizer hooked up underneath the tank and has a water tube going thru it. Seems like a pretty expensive set up. | |
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09-04-2004, 05:45 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Wet dry with sep. sump?
Man, that looks like a tight setup! 
I can't imagine someone would make a prefilter media area so that you cannot access it easily.....but it looks like the PVC is glued....I'm sure you probably tried pulling just the PVC going into the top to see if it pops right out? then maybe you could squeak that tray out???
I'm sure someone a with a lot more knowledge than me will come along here..... | |
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09-04-2004, 08:47 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Weston, FL,Florida
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| Re: Wet dry with sep. sump?
Yeah, thought there would be some kind of trick to it. But it won't come apart. Not sure if I want it to, I imagine that they're full of water. | |
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09-04-2004, 03:08 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Weston, FL,Florida
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| Re: Wet dry with sep. sump?
either side of the filters cannot be moved. They're connected by yet another hose? type fitting on the the bottom of both boxes. Water flows from one box to the other. So they can't be moved left or right. They're in pretty tight between the walls also. Just enough space for the extra filter media. I don't want to force anything, in terms of the pvc pipe.. since it isn't mine, and I don't want a flood. lol. But it would be nice to know. Would more pics help? | |
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