Tank Linking Question

[DevotedToDiscus]

Here you go. Mine is taking water from the mains(now actually through the RO unit) and then going down the drain. However, yours would run to your sump, and then pumped back in. You could build this system and simply link all the overflows to one cross pipe, which feeds the sump. The return feed from the sump would then be split to feed your tanks

. If you had them side by side you could run one long spray bar drilled out at the points above each tank.

 

[Staxx]

with an RO unit you dont need declorinator or anything like that do you?

 

[Mauigirl]

Here you go. Mine is taking water from the mains(now actually through the RO unit) and then going down the drain. However, yours would run to your sump, and then pumped back in. You could build this system and simply link all the overflows to one cross pipe, which feeds the sump. The return feed from the sump would then be split to feed your tanks

. If you had them side by side you could run one long spray bar drilled out at the points above each tank.

So basically, as long as your not pushing so much water in as to overwhelm the return your golden?
All filtration is preformed in / by the sump?
Then you would just preform maintenance as usual ie vac and change water regularly?

Makes sense for the most part, at least I get how you would do the linking part now.

Mine wasnt a complicated set up, they were bare tanks for breeding angels and growing on young discus

I literally had 4 tanks in a square on stands and in the middle on the floor, a 5th tank.

All four tanks had two holes drilles, one hole was just a hole and pipe dropping down into the sump (an overflow, as long as there is water going into the tank... water overflows back out the other hole..) and i made strainers so fish didnt go down! Just used pond hose as the pipework as it wasnt on show but you can use solid pipe.

I had a pond pump in the bottom tank with a hosetail and a few inches of hose and I used a 3 way splitter and a T piece to split the return pipe from the pump to cover the four tanks... the pump size will depend on the volume of water...

It was so basic a settup, pump pumps the water to 4 tanks where it overflows down the other pipe back down to the pump and it cycles round. The sump itself had lots of biomedia in it and the return pipes went in behind a sheet of sponge before going to the pump to be returned.

Ahh, scroll up and reread. now I'm getting it!!!

 

[DevotedToDiscus]

If you are pushing more water you simply need a bigger bore overflow pipe. Mine's skinny because I am trickle feeding the tanks. Bigger bore pipes actually work better.

This is just to save drilling.

 

[beechey]

very neat pipes

 

[DevotedToDiscus]

very neat pipes

You can get all the bits at Homebase, etc. Then a few measurements and an hour with the hacksaw and glue