Page 10 - TBAS-Aug-2020

-10- TBAS August 2020 ....................

Recently I had the great fortune to set up not one, but TWO
wet-dry filters for a couple of members of the club (not the hang-over-
the-back-power-filter-type). I have been using a wet-dry filter for the
past 7 years and currently own two of them. One is up and running on

my 110 gallon goldfish tank and the other is waiting for the 70 gallon
tank I am setting up. I realize that this is a confusion filter system
even for experienced hobbyist. Most people think of this filter as a
saltwater filter only, but I find it works very well on freshwater and I

highly recommend them to anyone.
Because I think I have had everything go wrong that could go
wrong, I thought I would pass on my experience to help someone
else.

The standard wet-dry has two main parts: the pre-filter and the
wet-dry. The pre-filter is the output and the water flows over the top of
the inside chamber through a pad, then through the overflow tubes to
the back chamber. The pad inside chamber catches bubbles before

they go into the overflow tubes. Without the pre-filter pad the bubbles

To Table of Contents