Opinion request on the 530gph pool filter

[MrParker]

I got an Intex Krystal Clear 603 Pool Filter/Pump for $5. The thing says it pumps 530 gallons per hour. I just got done testing it out using the bathtub haha. It's pretty cool.

Here's a picture:
http://www.coolinflatables.com/files/891848/uploaded/58603E.jpg

It is meant for the big "bag-like" pools people put up. But I thought it could be cool if i could rig it with some mesh bag of carbon in it with the filter cartrige, and then create some fish friendly intakes and output heads so none of them get sucked up and the output doesnt destroy the aqua scape.

What are your thoughts on the idea?

 

[MoneyMitch]

would be pretty awesome, that flow is monster your def going to want to be carefull with that lol. Never thought of using a pool filter before though, kinda like a can filter if you think about it.

 

[MrParker]

exactly like a canister filter. but i went to the hardware store and found piping and tubing and after i build my own media holder it will have cost me a total of $50. I could get a decent canister filter off ebay for that. So i might just buy a canister filter and abandon ship on the pool filter.

 

[widebody2]

I own a pool company and use pool equip on ponds all the time. In your case its not even close to worth the hastle since the tank is 45 gallons

 

[epond83]

I think that much flow from a single source would be way to high.
Carbon isn't really neccary on a filter unless you have nasty stuff in your tap water.
Seems like the filter is small and doesn't have much of a place for good bacteria to grow which is the main point of a fish tnak filter. That seems more set up to just get debri out of the pool.

 

[Richard D. Green]

Well I remember something similar when my friend installed the pool pump and filter to his tank and when he start the pump all the sand from the bottom come on the top of the surface with powerful pressure. This can also harmful for fishes.

 

[Richard D. Green]

Well I remember something similar when my friend installed the pool pump and filter to his tank and when he start the pump all the sand from the bottom come on the top of the surface with powerful pressure. This can also harmful for fishes.

Any views?

 

[Rotaripsnoc]

I've thought about doing something like this for a 250 gal tank. Keep in mind, a 25 gal tank canister has a flow of about 125 gal / hour, my math could be wrong, but unless you used a valve on the intake of the pump to reduce what the pump was pulling, you'd need around a 100 gal tank to justify the flow rate.

With that said, if the water is sucked through the filter, from the outside to the hollow center, you could add bio media in a 20 oz bottle full of holes, and you'd have a filter that's super easy to clean, cost less than $30 bucks to make. If it pushes water from the center to the outside, the bio media would have to go elsewhere, and probably wouldn't work very well.

If you're going to do a 60 + gal tank anytime soon, it'd probably be worth playing with. I don't ever recommend overstocking a tank, but if you found yourself in a situation where you were overstocked in a 60 + gal tank, it would easily handle the bio load of several messy fish.

The other option would be to do an overflow for your tanks if you kept more than the 45 going. You could setup a sump type environment, where all the tanks overflow into 1 holding tank, then your pool filter pulls the water from there, and re-distributes it to your other tanks. It'd be a lot more work, and if one tank were to contract a disease it would spread to all the other tanks, but I've read of similar setups for display \ holding tanks where they move fish around from time to time, but rarely add new fish to the water column.