Help Design Me a Fuge

[KMitch]

I have a 1 gal tank that I have been toying with making completely awesome but I need the help of my local genius fish friends. If you look at this link 1 gal Pico you will see the tank I am modding. I alreay am making my LED light hood which is coming along nicely. I have considered using the mini filter the tank comes with or adding my own acrylic to the back of the tank to make a glue on back fuge/filter area.

 

i would probably cut down the back into a baffle and install a return in the main tank, but the rest is yet to be planned. Ideas? Help with my ideas? Am I better just using the mini filter this came with?

 

Here is what I was thinking. The back wall is 8.25" by 6.25"

 

 

I also dont know how deep I would need to make it, presumably only as deep as the pump that would be in it. Are there intake designs that wouldnt require me to drill baffles? Cutting a hole for a return is one thing... cutting baffles is quite another.

Please help!

[schaadrak]

You could just mod a HOB filter. Or make a simple HOB overflow siphon. I'll post a pic of one after I make it.

 

Also, skip the live sand and just use LR rubble. The sand will probbably end up just being a nitrate trap and it might get caught in your filter.

[NanoClown]

heres one cheap but u get the point FALSE WALL

[schaadrak]

I could'nt draw a crappy picture fast enough, but I found a link that describes it perfectly.

 

http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/overflow.htm

 

I would just use a larger diameter tube for the overflow chamber in the main tank, rather than a large box. It'll take up less space.

[NanoClown]

i did this crappy pic in likt 2 min lol looks like SHHHHH

[KMitch]

Clown-- why are you doing the input and output reversed like that?

[NanoClown]

i kave no ideal i think i got it mixed pu for a min i mean it to be the oposite my bad sorry