Keeping plants in the sump... Very cool idea keeps the system more natural and reduces need for big/frequent water changes.
I am in the process of purchasing a house, one of my main requirements is a basement want to have a wall of fish tanks. With the filter room behind it, and I am trying to come up with an idea for a central filtration system. I am unsure how many tanks I am going to have on the central system... because I dont think I want my discus tank in the same system as my cariba.... I would really like to run this idea by you guys and you let me know if you see any flaws in the system or ways to improve...
I want to use the 300g stock tanks you get from TSC. just for the sake of explaining my system we will just pretend it is one tank on this system. Reach deep into your imagination on this one hah.
2 - 300g stock tanks one slightly elavated.... probably using 4x4's or something but both right next to eachother.... have water go from in the main tank drain into the elavated 300g tank.... that is stocked with bio media and plants..... not sure what type of plants yet?? still holding out on that decision... then have that 300g tank drilled into the other 300g (with a mechanical filter sponge in between the two) tank that is sitting below it and the lower tank wil hold more bio media... and the pumps for the tank.
I am unsure what to use for bio media on such a large setup... right now I have buckets filled with bioballs on my 125g cariba tank. Would like to come up with a better way to do bio media.... Also unsure if I should have one very large pump or different pumps for each tank? Somewhere in the mess of my dream I also I am also going to plumb in a 55g drum..... to do water changes.
Ideally my tanks that are in the wall would consist of 2 huge plywood tanks (one cariba and one SA & CA cichlids) then my 2 acrylic 75g tanks.... for whatever else I want..
I know this sounds like a pipe dream, but I have plently of holding tanks to keep my fish in until all this becomes a reality... I just would like to do it right. I hope this all makes sense to someone and I can get some pointers.
Thanks for reading this.
I am in the process of purchasing a house, one of my main requirements is a basement want to have a wall of fish tanks. With the filter room behind it, and I am trying to come up with an idea for a central filtration system. I am unsure how many tanks I am going to have on the central system... because I dont think I want my discus tank in the same system as my cariba.... I would really like to run this idea by you guys and you let me know if you see any flaws in the system or ways to improve...
I want to use the 300g stock tanks you get from TSC. just for the sake of explaining my system we will just pretend it is one tank on this system. Reach deep into your imagination on this one hah.
2 - 300g stock tanks one slightly elavated.... probably using 4x4's or something but both right next to eachother.... have water go from in the main tank drain into the elavated 300g tank.... that is stocked with bio media and plants..... not sure what type of plants yet?? still holding out on that decision... then have that 300g tank drilled into the other 300g (with a mechanical filter sponge in between the two) tank that is sitting below it and the lower tank wil hold more bio media... and the pumps for the tank.
I am unsure what to use for bio media on such a large setup... right now I have buckets filled with bioballs on my 125g cariba tank. Would like to come up with a better way to do bio media.... Also unsure if I should have one very large pump or different pumps for each tank? Somewhere in the mess of my dream I also I am also going to plumb in a 55g drum..... to do water changes.
Ideally my tanks that are in the wall would consist of 2 huge plywood tanks (one cariba and one SA & CA cichlids) then my 2 acrylic 75g tanks.... for whatever else I want..
I know this sounds like a pipe dream, but I have plently of holding tanks to keep my fish in until all this becomes a reality... I just would like to do it right. I hope this all makes sense to someone and I can get some pointers.
Thanks for reading this.
