ok hear me out on this one... i am just very curious to see if anyone has done this. i don't imagine this to be rocket science by any means but this has been something i've been bouncing around in my head for some time so here goes.
so many of us have A LOT of tanks (i used to be one of these guys... hoping to become one of these guys once again once i get back into the hobby... but i digress!). this means a ton of water is being changed, and potentially a lot of it is going down the drain; literally! so here in drought-stricken california, we are being asked to be creative... one thought i had is as follows:
- imagine you had a lot of tanks (i'm talking HUNDREDS of gallons... these are for the guys who easily change 150-200+++ gallons of water each week, which is not hard to do when you have several 180s and you do a 30% water change each week).
- imagine for the sake of this discussion that you decided that instead of letting this water just flow into your yard randomly, or the street or whatever, that you had a pond that ended up holding this water. you can pretend there are fish in this pond i.e. it's not just a body of water, but is something that is used as part of the hobby. for the sake of discussion assume that the pond won't be overflowing each time you do these water additions/ changes.
- so every week the water from these water changes goes into the pond, and then you decide however many times a week that you can in turn use this water to water your lawn, your trees or whatever using an installed lawn sprinkler system.
so here comes the question - how would you use this pond as the main source of water for your sprinkler system? is it as easy as i imagine it to be where you basically exchange the source of the sprinkler system to be a pump inside the pond that's connected to a timer?
has anyone done this before? i can't imagine this to be something difficult... pretty interested to hear some thoughts... you'd definitely want to make sure the pumped water gets filtered so it doesn't clog up the sprinkler heads with debris or heaven forbid fish or some animal sucked in from the pond, but is there anything more complicated than this? or is this a completely stupid idea?
so many of us have A LOT of tanks (i used to be one of these guys... hoping to become one of these guys once again once i get back into the hobby... but i digress!). this means a ton of water is being changed, and potentially a lot of it is going down the drain; literally! so here in drought-stricken california, we are being asked to be creative... one thought i had is as follows:
- imagine you had a lot of tanks (i'm talking HUNDREDS of gallons... these are for the guys who easily change 150-200+++ gallons of water each week, which is not hard to do when you have several 180s and you do a 30% water change each week).
- imagine for the sake of this discussion that you decided that instead of letting this water just flow into your yard randomly, or the street or whatever, that you had a pond that ended up holding this water. you can pretend there are fish in this pond i.e. it's not just a body of water, but is something that is used as part of the hobby. for the sake of discussion assume that the pond won't be overflowing each time you do these water additions/ changes.
- so every week the water from these water changes goes into the pond, and then you decide however many times a week that you can in turn use this water to water your lawn, your trees or whatever using an installed lawn sprinkler system.
so here comes the question - how would you use this pond as the main source of water for your sprinkler system? is it as easy as i imagine it to be where you basically exchange the source of the sprinkler system to be a pump inside the pond that's connected to a timer?
has anyone done this before? i can't imagine this to be something difficult... pretty interested to hear some thoughts... you'd definitely want to make sure the pumped water gets filtered so it doesn't clog up the sprinkler heads with debris or heaven forbid fish or some animal sucked in from the pond, but is there anything more complicated than this? or is this a completely stupid idea?
