Blackie died today...

[mscamp02]

My tank is on a wall in my living room, on the opposite side of that wall is the water heater located underneath the stairwell. For drainage the easiest thing would be to drill through the floor into the 3.5 ft crawl space and use PVC pipe to drain the water out the front/side of the house through a vent in the bricks and into the front garden area that way I'm wasting no water

 

[dxdx]

My tank is on a wall in my living room, on the opposite side of that wall is the water heater located underneath the stairwell. For drainage the easiest thing would be to drill through the floor into the 3.5 ft crawl space and use PVC pipe to drain the water out the front/side of the house through a vent in the bricks and into the front garden area that way I'm wasting no water

I have a similar type system, gravity fed drain through a crawl space out into the back yard. I used flexible tubing rather than pvc, but that doesn't really matter what you use.

If you have water lines in that crawl space, they could tap into that with a saddle valve and come up straight to your tank with a carbon filter and drip emitter. I use 1 gph on my 300.

If you can find a hobbyist in your area that knows what they're doing, it should only be a couple hours job max (assuming the lines can go in easily)...

 

[bonesb66]

It's cheap enough to do a drip system.

If you can flow it by gravity then it's just pipework and the HMA filter.

If not, like one scenario i have, i pump the water, i flow it by gravity out of my shed into a big which is in the ground about 18", the bin fills and the pump on a float pumps the water up the garden through the house out the wall into the drain.

It's not much work, it's not much cost but it is a life saver.

 

[mscamp02]

yeah gravity feeding it out of the house will work easy enough and will only have to run about 20 feet to feed out to the garden area. And I can drill in the wall right behid the tank for the supply lines no problem.

One question is my tank is not drilled for a sump and I just use canister right now, will this make it more difficult to set up the drip system?

 

[bonesb66]

Well you need a point where it can overflow from.

You can build a DIY PVC pipe overflow which can sit on your tank wall to avoid drilling - just search for "DIY PVC pipe overflow system" and you'll find instructions on how to assemble it.

 

[mscamp02]

Well you need a point where it can overflow from.

You can build a DIY PVC pipe overflow which can sit on your tank wall to avoid drilling - just search for "DIY PVC pipe overflow system" and you'll find instructions on how to assemble it.

Yeah nothing pretty but something simple to throw in there, that looks like it will be no problem to do.

 

[asred9]

sry to hear that but i sell fish and made some good money

 

[MonsterMinis]

I would do the drip.. and consider getting rid of anything you don't "Love" to make your bio-load as minimal as possible. even just a small decrease in your bio-load ect can make a huge difference and help your wife ( which btw she gets a lot of credit, a lot of SO's want nothing to do w/ our fish.)

 

[mscamp02]

I would do the drip.. and consider getting rid of anything you don't "Love" to make your bio-load as minimal as possible. even just a small decrease in your bio-load ect can make a huge difference and help your wife ( which btw she gets a lot of credit, a lot of SO's want nothing to do w/ our fish.)

I know I'm very thankful for her, especially considering shes only about 110 lbs and has to clean out my fx5s and big 2062 which she has to drag out from underneath the tank.

I have a few pbass and dats that I will be looking to sell in the near future, those are more easily replaced.

 

[tampa_bass]

please tell me there's an MFK member that could possibly help a man with his fish or to set this up for him? After all he is serving our country and protecting our freedoms. If i was closer i'd help out for sure! thanks for your service to our country too!