My youngest granddaughter Adrine have loved fish since she was only half a year old. This winter she will be 6 years old and we was talking about an aquarium. Earlier this spring I come across a used Reef Sea Max nano aquarium for a low cost and I decided to buy it and start it at home, if it works out well - she will have it on her birthday in December this year. It must be a low maintenance aquarium with easy to hold organism and a stable biological way of working. In a lot of aquarium I have had - I have tried the concept with a reversed flow deep sand bed. with the exception of my last build - it has not been any success - one works well for 2 years but the container for the sand bed was not tight enough - sand disappeared by time :mad:
This time I will try to do it the right way. As usually I decide to use artificial rock works from the Back to Nature product line. The Read Sea Max Nano have an inbuilt sump at the back and a rather dull overflow comb. I do not like when the technical things can easily be spotted - therefore I will hide the overflow from the viewer's field of view. I do that with a module, and this will be my container for the RFRDSB (Reverse Flow Remote Deep Sand Bed) too.
The start
Preparing the module - outside
The inside
From left - bottom inlet with its protection -> plenum -> surface inlet
View of the bottom of the module
View of the surface inlet. This inlet will be partly blocked in order to force water to go from the bottom inlet and up in the sand bed. The sand bed will have the plenum as bottom and will be nearly as deep as the module. I will have rather rough coral sand in the bottom.
Both
The sump overflow
The result - without water and with
Sincerely Lasse
This time I will try to do it the right way. As usually I decide to use artificial rock works from the Back to Nature product line. The Read Sea Max Nano have an inbuilt sump at the back and a rather dull overflow comb. I do not like when the technical things can easily be spotted - therefore I will hide the overflow from the viewer's field of view. I do that with a module, and this will be my container for the RFRDSB (Reverse Flow Remote Deep Sand Bed) too.
The start
View of the bottom of the module
View of the surface inlet. This inlet will be partly blocked in order to force water to go from the bottom inlet and up in the sand bed. The sand bed will have the plenum as bottom and will be nearly as deep as the module. I will have rather rough coral sand in the bottom.
The sump overflow