I am in the process of getting my fish room started. It will have around 14 to 18 tanks and around 1700 gallons or so. I have a lot of different questions regarding plumbing, air compressor, filtration, pumps, etc. Does anyone have a similar fish room set up in Southern California I could check out? Does anyone know of any businesses in Southern California that offers supplies and help to set up fish room plumbing? I have found similar business that do that but they are on the east coast. If I have a two pump system with one pump sucking water out and one pushing the water back to the tanks can't I just put a line of "in" and "out" pvc from the top of the tanks so I don't have to have predrilled tanks? Please help.
FISH ROOM
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rivet-10;5093930; said:
Yeah, sure if you plan on having a pump in every tank which could provide a huge hazard when one or the other pump goes out or you loose power. What you need if you don't want to drill your tanks is a hang on overflow. Plus, you would need a huge filtration system if you plan on running 18 tanks all off the same system which would likely take up a huge chunk of any room.
home depot and lowes can help with plumbing. and technically you could have a line in an out, but off one pump, unless is huge, you wouldnt have the same amount of suction nor flow to every tank. one would be more then the other
Does anyone know of any businesses in Southern California that offers supplies and help to set up fish room plumbing?
just hit up home depot, they will have more than enough for 1700g of water. keep in mind even my 5500gph pump is only 1.5" pvc
Instead of filtering all the water with one filter, why not plumb in an air system and run sponge/box filters?
I was considering that as well as a central filtration system, that way with individual shut off valves I can run each tank individual if needed. Thanks to all for the input. I also found a good website from another friend...it is http://jehmco.com/index.html
Jehmco is a good site, get a linear piston Alita pump. I run the nickel air valves and they are all adjustable and closeable.