Hi All, when I do a water change a use a pump to remove water from the tank, I would like to filter this water and return it to the tank instead of dumping it,
Any thoughts?
Geo??
Any thoughts?
Geo??
Water filation
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When I lived in the US, and ran 20 tanks, I pumped old water to my garden.
and set up a garden type manifold semi-permanently on the spigot, so I could fill 4 sumps (all tanks) at the same time in my fish room.
I always ran new water to sumps, first instead of directly to tanks, in that way new water was blended to normalize temps, and any unforeseen anomaly from the distribution system, and a little bloop of dechlorinator in each sump
Not particularly aethsetic looking, but it made water changes on all 20 tanks almost simultaneously and very timely.
Always had a bucket of substrate with a little water dripping in to rinse dust, and so I could always finger check temp of tap water running to the sumps.
and set up a garden type manifold semi-permanently on the spigot, so I could fill 4 sumps (all tanks) at the same time in my fish room.
I always ran new water to sumps, first instead of directly to tanks, in that way new water was blended to normalize temps, and any unforeseen anomaly from the distribution system, and a little bloop of dechlorinator in each sump
Not particularly aethsetic looking, but it made water changes on all 20 tanks almost simultaneously and very timely.
Always had a bucket of substrate with a little water dripping in to rinse dust, and so I could always finger check temp of tap water running to the sumps.
The water you are removing will have nitrate in it, hence the need for the water change in the first place. You can't filter the nitrate out. Either dump it or put some of it to good use by way of watering your plants or something.
I should also mention, the use of float (stop) valves to prevent over filling.
When filling 4 sumps (20 tanks) at once, they don't all fill at the same rate, so float valves (below) gave a little leeway in the time it might take, to shut a line down., once one was full. Once auto-shut the pressure of water would create water hammer, a sound that lets one know, its time manually close that particular line down.
The red float would plug up the incoming water from entering the sump, once water came close to filling the sump.
When filling 4 sumps (20 tanks) at once, they don't all fill at the same rate, so float valves (below) gave a little leeway in the time it might take, to shut a line down., once one was full. Once auto-shut the pressure of water would create water hammer, a sound that lets one know, its time manually close that particular line down.
The red float would plug up the incoming water from entering the sump, once water came close to filling the sump.
Aquaculture might be something to look into, a way of watering your plants, and reusing the water. Some folks get away with _loads_ of plants and very few water changes. Thinking about setting up a sump and an old growlight and growing my herbs and strawberries indoors, along with the potos, spider plant, bamboo, duck weed, red root floaters, ferns, stem plants, native reeds and sedges from the local creek I already have going. . .
If there actually were a practical way to make the water good again...we would simply apply that to our tanks and call it good. People are trying to solve that puzzle constantly...with (usually) minimal degrees of (usually) imaginary success.
Changing water means...changing water.
Changing water means...changing water.
Evaporation tank, if you have the space. You'll need a very large tank, put it outside in direct sunlight. Put a large funnel inside the tank, elevated and the drain from the funnel goes to a separate water container. Dirty water goes into the bottom of the evaporation tank, it evaporates and collects as condensation on the top of the evaporation tank. Eventually this evaporation falls back down and gets collected in the funnel inside the tank which redirects the water to the secondary holding tank as clean water.
Just thought of this right now so I'm not sure how practical it actually is, but it does what you want.
Just thought of this right now so I'm not sure how practical it actually is, but it does what you want.
Just did a quick google search, this one has the same idea as what I was just explaining but a lot easier to make, without a funnel inside the evaporation chamber.
In this example, just imagine the saltwater is your waste water.
In this example, just imagine the saltwater is your waste water.