I need a little help.
I want to put together an indoor (in my garage) pond for my semi-aquatic turtle (a yellow-bellied slider). I'm thinking stock-tank pond, above ground obviously. Most importantly, I want a bottom drain, or something else with wicked mechanical filtration.
"Cash", my little turtle, is currently in a 30 gallon turtle tank (holds 15 gallons of water), with two filters running on it. While the biological filtration is ample, mechanical filtration is woefully inadequate. He produces an incredible amount of waste, which sits on the bottom of the tank. It looks gross, is a PITA to clean, and can't be very good for him either.
I'm thinking if I hook a bottom drain up to a solids-handling-pump, then run the water to a biofalls with mechanical filtration ahead of the bio media, that should do the trick?
Anyone done anything like this? How difficult is it?
Any alternative suggestions?
I want to put together an indoor (in my garage) pond for my semi-aquatic turtle (a yellow-bellied slider). I'm thinking stock-tank pond, above ground obviously. Most importantly, I want a bottom drain, or something else with wicked mechanical filtration.
"Cash", my little turtle, is currently in a 30 gallon turtle tank (holds 15 gallons of water), with two filters running on it. While the biological filtration is ample, mechanical filtration is woefully inadequate. He produces an incredible amount of waste, which sits on the bottom of the tank. It looks gross, is a PITA to clean, and can't be very good for him either.
I'm thinking if I hook a bottom drain up to a solids-handling-pump, then run the water to a biofalls with mechanical filtration ahead of the bio media, that should do the trick?
Anyone done anything like this? How difficult is it?
Any alternative suggestions?