Drain question

[nfored]

I am building a fish room one of the tanks needs to be located on the other side of the room; across from the filter. The problem is that there is a door in between the tank and the filter.

The bottom of the tanks will be 36 inches above the ground, the top of the filter will be 28 inches above the ground. I want to run the drain all the way to the floor and run it under the door then come back up to the top of the filter. I know it will drain since it is still bellow the water line. I worry about loosing a lot of flow due the pipe coming back up.

Here is a picture to help illustrate

 

[Nic]

think your going to complicated and your gonna need a large pump to pump that water all the way back with that much head...

 

[duanes]

It will work, because the entry to the filter is below the line out of the tank(s). But if I were you, I'd put a T and an open shut valve at the lowest point before the water heads uphill to the filter. There may be a tendency for a bit of sludge, plant parts etc. to build up at that lowpoint and back up the flow, and you will want to periodically and easily want to clean it out.

 

[nfored]

Well the pump (Cal T4000) I am getting will put out 3100GPH at 10ft so I hope that I can get a realized output of 2000gph. I also have no choice with how the room is, I have to have the drain like this I will have tanks on 3 sides of the room and two of the tanks will have to cross a door to drain to the filter.

Thanks for the Ideal about the T i will put a tee at each end so I can just run a scrubby through.

 

[Ullopincrate]

As long as the pump can handle it, your good,.

 

[wow_it_esploded]

Maybe design the sump to intake water at the bottom...

 

[nfored]

Thanks All I was worried is that the drain might not handle what I need, shooting for 700 - 800GPH from each 55. I only hope to get about 350- 400GPH from the pump to each of the 55 gallon, this way there is over head if a drain gets a little clogged or slows down.

 

[FSM]

How many tanks is it for?

 

[nfored]

5 tanks

1 220 (hoping for 1000 - 1200 gph from the pump drilliled with dual 2" drains)

2 55's (hoping for about 350 to 400GPH from each, each has a dual 1.5" pvc overflow)

2 20's (these will only have plants and only half full, they will likely be feed from one of the drains of the 55 gallon)

I am still building the stands, and then will have to insulate the room, so I might change the filtration setup. My back up plan was to upgrade the pump to one that does 3000GPH at 25' head, and drain all the tanks a DIY bakki filter in the basement. The fish room will be built in the sun room which is on a concret slab I could run a 3"pvc drain to the bakki and pump it back up to the tanks. This would cost more be harder to do, but would look better and make it easier for drip system and automatic water changers, plus almost unlimited growing room for the filtration system.