What is the small tank on the right?
Looks great though that took some time to do, I've messed with that program before.
Looks great though that took some time to do, I've messed with that program before.
Fish Tank in Google SketchUp
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polish;4270944; said:
Small tank:
Auto-Water change
I will have an auto-drip system adding about 2.25 GPH to the tank which will add the entire tank size every week (i.e. 380 gallons a week). This will result in the filer to overflow, but I have a bulkhead at some level in the filter that will drain water to a holding tub with a traditional sump pump in it. When the water level in the holding tank gets high enough, the pump ejects the water to a drain.
GoogleSketchUp is a beastly program for being free! I am a Computer Engineer (which also means I am a complete computer nerd), so the few hours it took blended both my passions
I figured it was for something along those lines.
I did mine similar but kept it more basic, I just put the drip line in the top of the tank and installed a bulkhead on my sump then ran that to a drain. So the tank is constantly being dripped/drained with nothing electrical. This way if the power goes out nothing can fail, it continues to drip and drain and keeps the filter material wet as well. Nothing wrong with making it more elaborate I just like simple.
I did mine similar but kept it more basic, I just put the drip line in the top of the tank and installed a bulkhead on my sump then ran that to a drain. So the tank is constantly being dripped/drained with nothing electrical. This way if the power goes out nothing can fail, it continues to drip and drain and keeps the filter material wet as well. Nothing wrong with making it more elaborate I just like simple.
kevinfleming21;4272298; said:
Leave it to an Engineer to complicate things...
I just know how crappy doing water changes on my 125 is now, so multiply that by 3 and... you get the point.
This is my first "monster tank" (well by most standards) and I want to do it right. I am also gathering parts to feed a microcontroller that will monitor tank conditions (lighting, temperature, pump flow rates...) and I hope to interface that to a computer that will host an HTTP server so I can monitor the tank when I am not at home. I have about a year before this gets setup, which I will need to get the bugs out
polish;4272313; said:
I stole this design and have thought about just running it to a drain. The only problem is I do not know the specifics about where I will set this up and if the drain is not lower than the bottom of the sump, I will need the pump to get the water out. Otherwise it would be much simpler to run it to a drain.
Also, the drip system will take incoming water, eliminate particles and chlorine, then go through a solenoid and water pressure regulator, then to the tank. The solenoid will only let water pass if it has a voltage across it, so if the power goes out, no more water will enter
Its brilliant, I only wish I had thought of it myself
