drain fixture in the bottom floor

[dfringu]

Does anyone know of tank designs w/ a drain fixture in the bottom floor panel. It would be kind of like a floor drain in a pool? Of course the drain design would take substrates into account or eliminate them. The drain could be used for bottom settling cleaning or on going water filtration ?

Has this been done ? If so by whom? If not why ?

 

[Moloch]

I've seen it in petsmart...It was in open-top tank for live plants.

They had 3 open tanks in a row sort of stair-stepped, so the first tank over flowed into the second which overflowed into third which had the drain in the bottom. They had a skirt around the bottom of the setup though so I couldn't tell what was going on underneath....I assumed a sump.

 

[Egon]

I use bottom drains on all my tanks. I use a T fitting off the drain and run a canister filter with a return going to a spray bar or some other area of the tank. The other side of the T fitting goes to my drain plumbing controlled with a ball valve. I just open the valve for a quick drain of the whole tank if needed or just 10% for a quick water change. The drain plumbing runs to my yard and my wife’s roses love the fishy water

 

[those1]

My tank was drilled for it but i chose to go side mount with mine and it works awesome i just have to stir up the bottom of the tank and push th crap to that side. power head has done a great job at this.

 

[Egon]

^^^^ Damn nice looking stand. Big game tomorrow, hope you remember your roots and go for Chicago!