I have downsized to four tanks and am going to stay at four. One of the main reasons is Water Changes. I also travel with my job so I am unable to space maintance time to diffferent days. When I do water changes, it is for all the tanks all at once.
I have thought about some sort of auto fill and drain set up, I will still need to do gravel and sand cleaning, but don't feel I have to do that every time.
None of my tanks are drilled. I really don't want to drill them. My faucet won't let me hook up a python and if I am going to use the outside faucet, it is just as easy to syphon to drain.
I might have to do this in different steps, and I am a little hesitant to do an auto fill set up, because if water is not going out, but coming in, then I will have a problem.
So instead of having a always on fill and drain set up I can have one that I monitor. Here is my idea. To have overflows set up in each tank to drain outside. I can then just add new water and water will drain out the overflow. I could time it to figure out how much to do, I am not sure with set up if it would be possible to change too much as long as the flow was not too high
I still would want to figure a better way to add water as currently I use water pitchers and do a lot of walking. I think I can connect something to my kitchen sprayer.
Now I could put two overflows on each tank and have the water come in at a slow rate and go through an inline heater and then though a line like an ice maker uses, I could adjust the rate, but then I still have the issue of if the both overflows fail, I have a flood.
Anyone have any links, thoughts or info that might help me? I am going to search more, but thought it might be good to start a thread.
I have thought about some sort of auto fill and drain set up, I will still need to do gravel and sand cleaning, but don't feel I have to do that every time.
None of my tanks are drilled. I really don't want to drill them. My faucet won't let me hook up a python and if I am going to use the outside faucet, it is just as easy to syphon to drain.
I might have to do this in different steps, and I am a little hesitant to do an auto fill set up, because if water is not going out, but coming in, then I will have a problem.
So instead of having a always on fill and drain set up I can have one that I monitor. Here is my idea. To have overflows set up in each tank to drain outside. I can then just add new water and water will drain out the overflow. I could time it to figure out how much to do, I am not sure with set up if it would be possible to change too much as long as the flow was not too high
I still would want to figure a better way to add water as currently I use water pitchers and do a lot of walking. I think I can connect something to my kitchen sprayer.
Now I could put two overflows on each tank and have the water come in at a slow rate and go through an inline heater and then though a line like an ice maker uses, I could adjust the rate, but then I still have the issue of if the both overflows fail, I have a flood.
Anyone have any links, thoughts or info that might help me? I am going to search more, but thought it might be good to start a thread.
