IDEA!

[ymolina]

how hard would it be for the guys who have multiple tanks to take like a 55 gallon tank an make it into a like a overflow an just have one big filter to run all tanks?

 

[TheCanuck]

I think most people have this.... and every lfs uses this methood...

lol

 

[boldtogether]

Can be tricky to set-up if you dont pay attention to weir overflow rates and pump(return) capacity.

 

[the_deeb]

I'm pretty sure Rallysman uses a setup like this. Look up his setup threads.

 

[Clay]

This thread is funny.

 

[ymolina]

lol sorry i just realized that the lfs's do that. blonde moment an brain fart at the same time :/

 

[kallmond]

This is kind of the story of my life. I come up with something totally genius all by myself, and then realize that everyone else knows it already.

 

[Pharaoh]

Do a search for wet/dry or sump and you should find plenty of info. There is also a thread in the sticky regarding filtration setups.

 

[yogurt_21]

Can be tricky to set-up if you dont pay attention to weir overflow rates and pump(return) capacity.

not any more tricky than doing it for a single tank, if you can handle that, you can handle multiple.

nof if you want to do it all from a single pump then you'll have to do the amth to calculate flowrate but beyond that equlizing the flow is as simple as makign sure the overflow can handle more flow than than the inlet. That's the nice thing about an overflow, as long as it's big enough it will never be too much as it will always match the pump flow rate.

 

[boldtogether]

^^^Yeah, what he said^^^Whatever.