Multi Tank Setup Help !

[adam567265]

ive kept tropical fish for ages now and i want to maybe start breeding some cool types,

my garage is huge and heated and ive built racks from 2x4 wood the whole length of it ... and brought loads of old aquariums pumps heaters ect from ebay .. i have about 30 odd tanks in my garage.

HOW DO I CONNECT THEM ALL TOGETHER ON ONE BIG SYSTEM, SO I HAVE ONE BIG FILTER ? ANY WEB PAGES TO HELP OUT WITH THIS ... I WANT THE SETUP THEY HAVE IN MOST PET STORES.

and basically im going to start trying to breed my favourites like green terrors, firemouths, frontosa, pindanis, about 40 different types in all, and even difficult to breed types like black red tails, and silver sharks.

obviously for resale.

 

[Tolak]

There's a few ways of doing this, depending on what you expect for an end result. If you plan on having tanks with differing water parameters, as would be needed in a vast multi species breeding setup you will have to keep the water in each separate. This generally means a centralized air powered filtration system. Each tank can be a different temperature, you can vary the temperature as needed, and if you wish to work with RO you can vary pH, hardness, etc as much as might be needed.

You could go with banks of tanks, drilled, with sump filtration. If you had the 30 tanks you are planning on, you could divide it up into 5 systems, 6 tanks each. These 6 tanks would, by nature of each being one system, have nearly identical water parameters.

You could go with all the tanks being on one large sump system, obviously the water would be the same in all of the tanks.

Understand that pet shops are holding and sales facilities, very few are involved in breeding. A breeding setup is usually far different from a retail shop, and must be set up and run differently.