maaxim Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 Hi there, How to do that? 6x 4 foot tanks with one good filtration???? Is anyone has an idea how to connect them using 1 filtration??? Do I need to make a sump? When I do need how big the sump needs to be? :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morcs Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 sump size depends soley on the stocking density. The downside is that you would have all the tanks connected together, meaning disease will spread through all the tanks if it ever occurs. Personally id just run a big aquaclear 70 or 110 on each tank... cheapish, powerful, simple, good capacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 as morcs has said disease in one disease in all of them also same temp and water parameters in each tank sump could be plastic bins stacked on top of each other, wet dry arrangement large pond master pump then pipe out split into four with ball valve on each line to regulate flow back to tanks safest way would be to drill overflow in each tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 sump size IMO is not always the key, its bio media volume and flow. you can connect all those tanks to a small sump, but have massive amounts of b io media and it will be better than a tank wtih massive sump with little bio media. its easy to connect, just plumb them all together into one outlet or diffuser. becareful, that the pump is not so powerfull that it overflows out of the tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 also same temp and water parameters in each tank Ideal if you're breeding and/or constantly moving fish from one tank to another, no need to acclimatise them as they're all in the same tank, so to speak. How are the tanks going to be set up, on some sort of racking system? How much space is below them? Obviously the sump needs to have enough space left when running to be able to hold the skim off all 6 tanks when the pump is shut off. As well as housing enough biomedia for how ever many litres of water will be in the system. Really its no different to setting up a sump for six 4' 200L tanks than it is for one 1200L tank, just a little extra plumbing and a few more holes to drill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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