How To - Trickle Tower (Simple Filtration system for aquariums)

in howto •  7 years ago 

So, trickle towers!

It´s a quite simple method to improve your aquarium / turtle aquarium filtration system, and usually most of the material everyone has at home!
It get in by a pump in the aquarium, It drains from the top, down, from one drawer to the next, like a waterfall, then gets back to the aquarium via gravity!

So this is the overall design!

Get one of these cabinets, and convert it into filtration drawers!

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First, get a hole where the water will get in. In my case, I inserted this garden hose coupling and got the hose inside.
Sealed with hot glue!

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Every drawer had holes on the bottom, to drain from one to the other.

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First I had the coarse sponge, to filter the large particles (Inittially I had a thin sponge, but it restricted the water flow so much that the drawer would overflow!)

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The next one I had some ceramics for a bit of biological filtering!

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The last drawer is to collect the clean water, right before flowing back to the aquarium!

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Later, I did a slightly bigger one, just because this one was quite small for the pump that I was using, and often would fill up the last drawer and overflow!

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If you go on youtube, you can find dozens of similar projects, better ones! This was mine, temporary, and with things I had at hand at home!

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