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Plumbing and Filtration This section contains information about devices to prepare your water, filters to maintain water while in the tank, and miscellaneous plumbing such as overflow skimmers. Included are many Do-It-Yourself ideas. The FAQ has a thumbnail description of most major types of filters. Water Preparation Articles about dissolved minerals, buffers, hardness, alkalinity, pH, CO2, and that ilk are kept in their own section. Information on practical pH-reducing methods is also available in the Apisto section. Dealing with nutrient-rich tapwater. Effects of evaporation. Outgassing your tapwater. Reverse Osmosis (R/O): used to pre-filter and soften water Deionizers: an alternative to R/O Can you get R/O-ish water from your dehumidifier? (No!) Can you get R/O-ish water from your Brita or similar filter? (No!) Python and similar water changing hose systems.

Tank Filters: Descriptions, Reviews and Debates

• A review of Aquaclear filters.
• Powerheads.
• Discussions on canister filters.
• A diagram of how the bio-wheel works.
• A large set of opinions on popular water pumps.
• A large set of opinions on popular protein skimmers.
• The The ETS foam fractitioner.
• Ozonizers: used to sterilize the water, usually in marine aquaria.
• No discussion on filters could be complete without a big debate on algal scrubbers. Related topic: Joshua Levy's review of Dynamic Aquaria (the book advocating the use of algae scrubbers).
• Undergravel Or Not?
• Combine both of the above! The Algal Turf Undergravel Filter
• Fluidized-bed Filters
• Diatomaceous earth filters, used for polishing water.
• Plenums
• Industrial triangle filters.
• Plants as Filters, and No-Filtration Tanks

Do-It-Yourself!

• Tom Sasala has written a great set of illustrated pages on how to construct a bunch of stuff, including a wet-dry filter, protein skimmer, light hood, and tank stand.
• An air-driven reverse flow undergravel filter by Bob Dixon
• Overflow skimmers: great DIY article by Ivo Busko, assorted discussion, keeping them quiet), e-mail dialog on good/bad design.
• Wet/Dry Filters (and yet-another one).
• protein skimmers (a big mess of info with no rhyme or reason. Someday I will fix...)
• Simple sponge filters.
• A hang-on-back Bio-filter.
• Cheap in-tank bio-filter.
• Sources of cheap filter media.
• Check valves
• Filter for Brine Shrimp.
• The infamous Denitrator coil (includes a rather nasty flame!).
• Air Pumps and Blowers (DIY, air filters, keeping them quiet).
• Using protein skimmers in freshwater.
• How to make an Archimedes screw pump (so your plankton don't get planked).
• How to calculate pump head-related things.
• How to build your own doser (a slow pump for injecting small amounts of things).
• A gravity system for feeding a deionizing resin
• Float Switches
• Water Changers
• Miscellaneous plumbing

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