For those with tanks in the stands..

[kevin007]

I planned to get a 180G tank and underneath it, 3 20G tanks placed sideways to grow out my mbuna fry.

I was wondering how do you do water changes? With buckets? Using a siphon requires gravity?

 

[chesterthehero]

i do a syphon because i can go right out the front door... if the syphon works go for it.. if not you can use a pump or even a powerhead... the powerhead wont do much for you if you are trying to go "up" with the water.. but they work alright for going level..

 

[VNCNT]

you should still be able to syphon the 20's, but you might have to syphon the water into buckets. the vacuum portion of the syphon just needs to be at a slightly higher level than the outlet on the syphon. a good water pump works too.

 

[Tigerdat]

I built a small pedestal out of 2x4's to raise the tank a little, it made it a lot easier to siphon the water out.

 

[12 Volt Man]

in my old fishroom I used to use buckets for the bottom tanks.

in my new fish room I have zero bottom tanks