Crazy River Tank Idea

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How about making small overflow boxes, could add some sort of filtration in them too. Could save you moisture/evaporation problems. You could possible have a decent pump at the last/bottom tank that would divert it into wet/dry or straight to the top.

Like someone said earlier, I think it's more about the construction of the stand. If you are looking for the cascading-into-each-tank look, I'm sure you're going to have to fabricate some lip/spout for the four upper tank levels.


Keep generating those "cooky ideas". But ease off the crackpipe. j/p:ROFL:
Anyways good luck with this, very interesting. This set up would be pleasing to watch.
 
Thanks for all the comments. I might to a scaled down test.

Just so y'all know my cooky ideas never are carried out. I consider it more of an inspirational thing haha.
 
Well, it's quite inspirational, i'd love to do this with some natives here, put brook trout, stickle back, american eels, one of the minnows we have around here and a (temorary) place for a sturgeon or two. I'd like to try this once i get my own place...thats not for a few years though.

And of course it'll work with other species, i'm just saying what i'd use it for.
 
in theory that sounds awesome, in practice im not sure if it would work without some modifications to the filtration and overflow
 
over flows wold work for the tank drops. the top tank could hold the bio, and the outlet of the bottom tank to your mech filtration. would work and be cool if done right.
 
Sounds great to me. Much like a stairway series I designed; Series of 10g along side a set of extended stairs (16 inch long; 4 inch rise steps) going from one level to another in an office building. each overflowing into the next. all at the same visual height; 5' above each step. On the non stair side they were at a diagonal ranging from 2 ~ 5 feet above the floor.

I say go for it...
 
I've already done something similar to this; if you buy a turtle tank it already has one wall that is shorter than the rest; you can then angle a piece of Plexiglas at about a 45 degree angle away from the side of the tank, the bottom flush with the lip of the short wall, the top 1/2" below the top of the tank (lower, if water flow is to be faster). I use that design with overflow tanks to produce a waterfall straight into a 5 gallon media bucket, but you could definitely do it directly tank-to-tank. Good luck with your project!
 
Lil_Stinker;2430971; said:
Sounds great to me. Much like a stairway series I designed; Series of 10g along side a set of extended stairs (16 inch long; 4 inch rise steps) going from one level to another in an office building. each overflowing into the next. all at the same visual height; 5' above each step. On the non stair side they were at a diagonal ranging from 2 ~ 5 feet above the floor.

I say go for it...
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Sounds cool! Do you have any pictures of it?
 
I've seen staircase set ups in a few LFS, although they only had 3-4 tanks hooked up. If you can make it work, they look pretty nice.
 
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