Bought this 3 tier, 6 foot set up recently from duboisi. It has 6x3ft tanks on it all with holes in the back for overflow to the sump.
I have bought all the bits and pieces i need for it all to work. I am going to have all tanks overflowing to a 200L sump. In the sump i have bought 5 kg of ceramic rings and 2x 500x500x100mm pieces of filter sponge, and a 1mx1mx3cm filter matting. I also have a 5000lph sump pump as a return pump.
For the automatic water changing system, i have bought a reticulation controller (2 zone), solenoid valve, float valve.
The sump will have 3 holes drilled into it. 2 of them will be up one end, one hole near the bottom of the sump and the other near the top/rim of the sump. the third hole will be up the other end of the sump (return pump end) and will be located at the water level i will run the sump at (yet to be decided).
The solenoid valve will be on the lower of the 2 holes. it will open daily for a few minutes thanks to the retic controller, drain some water out. As the water level drops it will open the float valve and refill the sump.
The top hole is an overflow hole, just incase for some reason the float valve passes or i miss calculated the amount the tanks will drop to the sump in a power outage.
So far i am just repainting the stand and cleaning the tanks up. Then i will cut all the PVC to length and move it all inside to the office/fish room.
Edited by Hypanheaven, 01 July 2012 - 09:35 PM.
