Quote Originally Posted by Lija View Post
hell yeah lol you know me well but one step at a time! From plain nice tanks to tree frogs to sump and then what? Reef tanks? Would need to buy a new house, one for us, another for the hobby lol

Will go look at that tank i was talking about tomorrow, if not good, then will order.

14" deep -too small to play around, right?

What do you mean by use substrate as a filter? How? Im not exactly sure how im going to do it yet, my understanding: water output - run down to the pond - back to the pump that is located in the opposite side of tank - tube - back to square one. Wrong?


I got a gift from my other half yesterday - waterfall black foam like great stuff but black, he was sooo proud of himself, that thing was like 20$ bit much i must say, but oh well, wont refuse lol
don't you dare become a stinking reefer!! LOL

14" is kind of tough to create a real sense of depth, but it can be done.

ok, the substrate as a filter thing: the pump pushes the water to a starting point, the water runs through a channel to a pond. if you build the substrate up around the pond, the water needs to pass through the substrate to circulate back to the pump, hence being filtered, just like a natural water table. simple really

that pond foam is neat, but highly over priced in my opinion. but cool that the other half bought you a gift for the new tank!!!