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    Re: Is this best way to START OVER FRESH?

    Or raise the filter and have gravity feed into GB..
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    Re: Is this best way to START OVER FRESH?

    Quote Originally Posted by Aloha Don
    Or raise the filter and have gravity feed into GB..
    Many ways to skin this cat
    Looking forward to your progress
    Yep, I thought of that too. Only downside is that if I do that, I won't have a constant height in the fish tank because it will still fluctuate..........Unless I do an overflow to a sump, then sump to the raised filter, which gravity feed to the beds as you mention. Sort of a hybrid of all these ideas into one. Decisions decisions!
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    Re: Is this best way to START OVER FRESH?

    A venturi siphon in your FT will keep it at a constant level. It will not fluctuate and it will get the waste off the bottom as well.
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    Re: Is this best way to START OVER FRESH?

    Quote Originally Posted by Aloha Don
    A venturi siphon in your FT will keep it at a constant level. It will not fluctuate and it will get the waste off the bottom as well.
    But to do that would require you to drill a hole in the tank at the level you want the water to exit, correct? Or is there a way to do it without drilling holes (a la a PVC overflow which somehow pulls from the bottom of the tank instead of the top)?

    Or perhaps not. I did find this picture online:

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