garage setup?

[paOol]

hey, i have about 4 tanks,
55 gal, 60, 20, and a 10.

im going to move these into the garage because im getting wood flooring installed and need to move them anyways.

so my question is, how can i combine all these tanks to use the same filtration/heating like the petstores do? is it going to cost alot?

if any of you have been to wes' shop rare fish, i want something like that.
how his new setup is a few 60s on the same stand. i plan on getting more tanks, so i can hold a bunch of diff fish.

 

[dr_sudz]

If you set up a LARGE sump you can use them all drain into the sump then pump back to all the tanks. Not terribly hard.

 

[paOol]

If you set up a LARGE sump you can use them all drain into the sump then pump back to all the tanks. Not terribly hard.

interesting. can you explain this more? how do i get the sump to split to the tanks?

 

[fishyboi]

for each tank drain it into the sump, then get a pump and pump it back to all od the tanks. so its a wet/dry

 

[Oddball]

Probably the easiest and least wallet-draining would be to get a small linear blower (usually around $60 on ebay and AB) and several sponge filters. The 10 and 20 only need one sponge filter. The larger tanks can take a couple each.

 

[Steve_89]

Probably the easiest and least wallet-draining would be to get a small linear blower (usually around $60 on ebay and AB) and several sponge filters. The 10 and 20 only need one sponge filter. The larger tanks can take a couple each.

Thats how a few people I know do it.

The blowers are pretty good.

A sump system would also work though but I dont think its really necessary.