Multiply tank setup

[darktim]

Not too sure how viable this idea is but, i would be pretty happy if it could work.

So the idea is a 2 tank setup possibly about 3ft tanks(was leaning towards bookshelf tanks) and what would happen is 1 will be on a higher shelf and one below it. i would use diy pvc overflow pipe on the top tank (maybe 2 to increase flow) and of course i would be using shrimp filter mesh on the intakes to prevent shrimpets getting in.

The overflow will lead to the second tank and at the end an intake for a canister which pumps it back to the top tank

This idea came from wanting different colour cherrys but wanting them in the same system but not interbreed with each other, i was also thinking of a smaller tank down at the bottom where the 2nd tank will overflow into and the canister pump into, which can store the heater and naything else i can high in there.

If i can get help with this idea to see if its viable and or advice to improve it i will most likley start a journal about it when i get around to it, but might take away due to how much money i can already being spent on it xD

[Squiggle]

i was also thinking of a smaller tank down at the bottom where the 2nd tank will overflow into and the canister pump into

I can't see why it wouldn't work, the water pumping up to the top would just flow back down to the bottom & be picked up by the canister, simple system with the canister acting like a sump, only thing is the above quote has me worried, not sure if its a typo but you need the canister to pump into the highest point & the pickup is from the lowest point, otherwise it should be fine, not the most effective way to do it but it will work :encouragement:

[darktim]

I can't see why it wouldn't work' date=' the water pumping up to the top would just flow back down to the bottom & be picked up by the canister, simple system with the canister acting like a sump, only thing is the above quote has me worried, not sure if its a typo but you need the canister to pump into the highest point & the pickup is from the lowest point, otherwise it should be fine, not the most effective way to do it but it will work :encouragement:[/quote']

Sorry bit tired, so my grammar really dies after long day of uni, but the idea was alternatively with the 2 tanks with shrimp, a smaller 3rd on the bottom to store a heater or anything that can be placed in it and hidden behind a certin, but in saying so and after some thought i will most likely just put a heater in the top tank then let the heat travel down to the next tank and in winter just put a heater in each tank to help keep warm them both warm.

What would be the most effective way? i would take it into consideration and might even use it

[2OFUS]

Buy an inline heater

[Squiggle]

Good idea 2OFUS, then you could put more shrimp in the third tank :encouragement: but you could put a heater big enough to heat all the water anywhere in the system, so the bottom will be fine :encouragement:

[DG17]

I've recently set up a 3ft rack with 2 3ft racks and a sump bud and I together a write up in "shrimp rack journals" and I plumbed up the sump sending the inlet to both tanks and having all the over flows going back to the sump. The only reason I don't like the idea of top rack overflowing into bottom rack is because your potentiality putting dirty water into the bottom tank..

[darktim]

The inline heater sounds pretty cool.

But Dg17 I'm kind of jelous of that build. I now look at my idea and it dosnt look as a great now xD. Would it be ok if copy some of ur design mostly the size of the rank xD and sump. I don't feel comfortable trying to set up a system with drilled holes. Not that confident in my self setting up the tank like that xD. Also what dimensions are the pipes and also where did u get the mesh for the inlet to be safe for the tank

[DG17]

DarkTim you can use whatever you need/want to know bud from memory my rack is 2200x1070x450 so each tank has 175 gap so I can comfortably work on the tanks if need be. I used 16mm PVC and reduced to 12mm irrigation fitting into ** tank running up one side with a "T" off into the 1st row and then a 90deg angle into the 2nd and a ball valve into ** tank but if I did it all again I would have gone all the way up one side to the top tank with no t piece then over the top and back down the other side to the 2nd row and come back in this would have used gravity to bring the water back down into the bottom row of tanks still using ball valves in ** tank/section to control water flow.. Not sure if that makes sense for you bud..

if it wasn't in my living room I wouldn't worry about it looking like it does. As long as the shrimp are happy and healthy it doesn't matter they don't care what the skin of the cabinet looks like haha..