Sand Filter for our Aquarium

Chillired

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Hi to all,
I would like to share this with all the members.
I work in the pool industry and in the recent heat wave in Australia, we were selling a lot of this new INTEC portable pool. This pool came with a small cartidge filter and a small 3000 liter pump. Customers were not happy with this setup, and were looking for something better. This is where I discovered this new small sand filter. This filter also came with its own pump, with 4000liter/hour output.

The filter stands around 80cm and 30cm wide.

Here is the Photo of the sand filter:



It can take 20 kilos of sand, but I only used 15 kilos of Zelite, which is a far better media than sand.


Thank you to Tunnel RAt for proving the Photos

My water became a lot clearer in 24 hours and my fish are very happy.
I have taken the pump out from the bottom and replaced my sump pump with it.

Pump to filter and from filter to the tank.

The best thing is that to do weekly water changes, I only have to back wash the filter, which cleans the filter media, as well as completing my water change for the week.

Hope this will help others. Thank you for reading my article.
Chillired