I have been looking at filters to get for my tank, i have been looking at the overhead ones. Which would be the best to get? I am going to have a skimmer as well if that helps? Thanks guys
A closed loop usually requires drilling (grinding) holes for bulkheads on the back wall of the tank, and if you try to drill holes in tempered glass, it will shatter into a million tiny pieces. There is a way of determining if a piece of glass is tempered that involves looking through it at an lcd screen (like a laptop computer or ipod), while wearing polarized sun glasses. Here's a thread describing how to do the test.sk252006;169814 said:...A closed loop would be fantastic but seeing as you have a 55 gallon if its standard then you will have no way to know if its tempered glass or not and drilling it could end in disaster.
I don't know what you mean. PVC caps completely seal the end of a PVC pipe and block all water flow.sk252006;169814 said:For flow you might think about 2 over flows with pvc capped tubes to push the water through the tank. It works in the event you cant have a closed loop and much better than having powerheads everywhere.
Jimmy55002000;169896 said:Well, what do you have currently? I have a wet/dry that I would like to offer a newb for shipping costs (well, any Tonmo member). I know Jack and Squat about keeping cuttles, but I swear I have read 75% of the posts on this site (and probably a hundred hours elsewhere) while attempting to setup a ceph tank, but I wouldn't even think of having a ceph tank without a sump or wet dry; somewhere out of the way to put the life support systems.
You implied your tank was glass?