Filtering fish rooms

The one sump multiple tank thing does work, just remember that if one fish gets a disease then all the tanks hooked up can catch it too.

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A UV would help with a limited amount of things. If I was doing a fish room with that many tanks, I would not consider anything besides sponges. You can't afford to run separate power filters and cross contamination in a sump from disease is possible. If you were intent on running sumps, I would suggest dividing into quarters. That way you are able to keep medication to a minimum. Also you would not be able to run UV on sponge filter systems. I would consider using box filters to collect particulate matter.

Buy a good air pump or two, build an air distribution system and run air-driven sponges and boxes to each tank.

That's how I filter most of the tanks in my 50-60 tank fishroom: 1 box (with lots of air, fluff changed frequently) and 1 sponge (with less air).

Matt

Sumps can work but disease is a big issue. I try not to put new fish into systems using one sump for quite some time and has worked so far....

But seeing as they are going to be more smaller tanks I would be going with sponge filters or building a mini sump in the back of each tank which can also be ran off air.

The only major pro with having them all hooked up to one sump is water changes can be very simple but there are other options to ease water changes for multi tanks which I would seriously consider / plan before any tanks are even purchased.

rodger said:

A UV would help with a limited amount of things. If I was doing a fish room with that many tanks, I would not consider anything besides sponges. You can't afford to run separate power filters and cross contamination in a sump from disease is possible. If you were intent on running sumps, I would suggest dividing into quarters. That way you are able to keep medication to a minimum. Also you would not be able to run UV on sponge filter systems. I would consider using box filters to collect particulate matter.

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x2 I would only use sponges, best and most efficient way to run many tanks in one room. With all the electricity I use on my 220 paired with its sump I could run 5 fish rooms each with their own blower haha.

Go bare bottom on all the tanks for super easy cleaning and run sponges on something like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/221365577698

Sponges works very well, but you definitely need to be religious with your water changes