Need help on internal filter

[Darrius]

I have a tank I bought second hand. There’s a large filter and a return pump. Need help setting it up. Does anyone have this setup

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Welcome to reef2reef!

Can you show us a picture ?

 

[Darrius]

Welcome to reef2reef!

Can you show us a picture ?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Ahh an all in one .
One more pic wider please.

Ditch the sponge for now anyway.

The pump goes in one chamber and the tube will come out into the tank.

When you fill it up , use tap water to test , the water will flow into the over flow into the pump and back into the tank.


It there a brand name in the tank ?

 

[Darrius]

There no name brand it was custom made. So take the sponge out for now. So where does the pump go. There a white long tube in the second column and the first one there is nothing there. It also came with a uv light.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Keep it simple and set the sponge and UV aside.

I'll need a pic of the full front of the tank. And we'll also see if we have any other all in one tank people around.

#refsquad have we seen this before ?

 

[Darrius]

Here are some more pics

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Cool, chek back in and well put our heads together and try to hook you up.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Morning bump. Anyone seen this

 

[Darrius]

Morning bump. Anyone seen this

I’m still looking around trying to see

 

[DeepBlueSomething]

@Darrius Welcome to R2R!

Looks like it is drilled for sump as well? Are those through holes @ left and right?

I can't quite figure out the flow pattern - it seems the weir spills over to all chambers equally?

#reefsquad ideas?

 

[Darrius]

The whole doesn’t drill down to the tank it’s just all in one internal. No holes drilled

 

[Rufus’ goofs]

Can you see into the chambers from the back side of the tank?

 

[Darrius]

Can you see into the chambers from the back side of the tank?

So it looks like it’s the all in one overflow. They put the overflow and glued it. In the first chamber it is empty. In the second one there is a whole but it’s the whole that is into the whole overflow not into the bottom of the glass. It’s kinda like a sump.

 

[DeepBlueSomething]

Are the chambers only connected at the top? Or any passages for water at the bottom of chambers?

 

[Darrius]

Are the chambers only connected at the top? Or any passages for water at the bottom of chambers?

There are passages on the bottom for water to go under

 

[Rufus’ goofs]

There are passages on the bottom for water to go under

Well, that explains a bit.

What I would do is get a hose for siphoning, and the start pouring water into your overflow, then siphon it out and try pouring in in different chambers. You should be able to figure out which way the water wants to flow. The last chamber it flows into, usually the lowest point is where the pump goes.

 

[DeepBlueSomething]

Agreed - there has to be a some design intent, now to just work through what it is!

 

[PaulPerger]

A picture looking from the opposite side might be helpful, giving us a look in the direction of the red arrow...

It looks to me like the small area between the "overflow" and the box (marked with a line and #5) is the initial water chamber.
The two chambers on the right (#3 & #4) look like they were custom sized for a small skimmer and/or small reactor, and it looks like there are holes on the right side leading from those chambers back out to the main tank.
It looks to me like water is entering #5, then flowing into #2 where it is filtered through the tubular filter, then the water apparently travels through that tube in the middle of #2 to the bottom of the chamber and then back up into the bubble trap between #2 & #1 and simultaneously into the #3 & #4 chambers from the bottom, ultimately then overflowing from the bubble trap into #1 where the return pump can return the water to the tank.

 

[Darrius]

So I took the tank to dallas north aquarium. They told me it was the Dutch aquarium system h39. It use to be the high end all in one. Back in the day. So you wouldn’t have to use a sump. It has a protein skimmer and filter that you fit in there