I was thinking if you had all of the tanks on one wet dry you could level all of the tanks so they are all the same height then get u tubes and connect them all in sync, then just pump water from the last tank to the first tank making it like one big river! Would it work?
Crazy Idea For a Fish Room River
- Thread starter salsa
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Yes,
I did this on a 4 tier/level system with about 12 tanks on each tier. There was an overflow on the last tank of each row and I passed the water through an ovlrhead trickle into the row below. Included a drip waterchange too. Tanks were only 50L tanks and there was about 6mm head height difference between tanks so after 12 tanks the last tank level was low - I out triple layer polystyrene base on last few tanks. I only needed one powerhead capable of lifting up to 4 tiers height to run this.
Initially, I used double U tubes for safety - 25mm PVC.
I did this on a 4 tier/level system with about 12 tanks on each tier. There was an overflow on the last tank of each row and I passed the water through an ovlrhead trickle into the row below. Included a drip waterchange too. Tanks were only 50L tanks and there was about 6mm head height difference between tanks so after 12 tanks the last tank level was low - I out triple layer polystyrene base on last few tanks. I only needed one powerhead capable of lifting up to 4 tiers height to run this.
Initially, I used double U tubes for safety - 25mm PVC.
i belive they do that at the lps, i am not sure tho, i kno theres alot of pvc type tubing and theres holes on the bottome of the tanks, and water drips into the top of the tank
I am currently working on a medium scale betta breeding setup, so I can breed high quality bettas and sell them, This will be 20+ tanks, many with dividers to hold 100+ males. I will add this effect to them in order to put them all on one central filtration system. This will be complete a few months from now, I am working on it in my spare time but I am DIYing everything to keep costs to a minimum so I can't see this complete until January of 2008.
I used to raise quality fish which would nibble each others fins and so reducing value and sales dramatically so I made up betta style tanks with lots of baffles. If your on a budget, just build/buy wide shallow tanks and bulk boxes of plastic flowerpots. While not transparent, flowerpots have water drainage at the bottom and allow water to flow through.
Continuing the DIY theme, I used to keep the flowerpots in polystyrene fishboxes when I ran out of tanks since I had lots of those. Fishboxes do leak slowly but can be waterproofed with rubber paint and are very easy to stack or plumb up.
Continuing the DIY theme, I used to keep the flowerpots in polystyrene fishboxes when I ran out of tanks since I had lots of those. Fishboxes do leak slowly but can be waterproofed with rubber paint and are very easy to stack or plumb up.