bait tank help

[Bigfish713]

Starting to put a tank together need some advise.  I have a 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank already need advise on filter.  Local garden pond store said i could use a 200 gph pump with what looked like a 2 gallon bucket you put pump inside with some green stiff mesh on top and what looked like furnace filter material on bottom.  Will this work. Pump was a magnetic drive pond master brand i think.  And help would be great thanks.

[surflizard]

Welcome to the shanty Bigfish, glad to have ya aboard ! Click on the community page and scroll down to the live bait thread. There is a huge cache of info on building tanks, trapping and tips and tricks to maintain your tank, water and bait ! Feel free to ask questions in there and someone will have the info or know where to get it, Good luck !

Surf

[FRESHBAIT]

Did the filter look like this?



I tried the above filter on my setup last year and scraped it imediately, just b/c the pump that was supplied with it i felt pumped to much water and caused it to basically pressurize and then the lid would leak, as it was a screw on.  I just built a bigger filter using the same basic principal and it worked out much better for me.




Here is a sketch I did of a bait tank setup that should be simple enough for anyone to follow.   if you have any question give me a shout