best design...3 tank prop system

[BluegrassReef]

guys anybody got any good ideas on how to hook up a prop system with either 3 75g tanks or 3 90g tanks to a 100g sump and a 55g dsb refugium?

 

[Rcpilot]

Thats gotta be expensive. I have no idea how to daisy chain that much water together, but would love to see the pics when finished.

 

[Harpo]

Gravity

Use Uniseals and gravity to flow through your 3 x 75 gallon tanks through your Remote deep sand bed then back to your refugium/sump. I had three 100 gallon rubermaid tubs waterfalling before being pumped back up to my 240 display upstairs. I used cinder blocks to stack the tanks at different heights for the waterfall effect.

Hope this helps

Harpo

 

[rarelyseriousb]

why your stacking tanks why not put the fuge at the top so you get all the fuge goodnes not going threw a pump.

 

[Rcpilot]

why your stacking tanks why not put the fuge at the top so you get all the fuge goodnes not going threw a pump.

Oh!! I like that idea!! :bigsmile:

 

[stunreefer Verified Sponsor]

why your stacking tanks why not put the fuge at the top so you get all the fuge goodnes not going threw a pump.

This is good for pods, but if the fuge is mainly for growing chaeto or other algae I'd put it after the DT.

I agree that the gravity route would probably be the most efficient, but I'm not sure if you could get sufficient flow throughout the prop tanks... depends on what you want to prop I suppose. The other route you could go would be a large pump to draw water out of your sump and split the pumps output 3 ways for your three prop tanks. Have all the prop tanks drain down into your sump or remote DSB.

GL, this will be awesome!

 

[rarelyseriousb]

if You could do a gravity and if flow is not enough go with powerheads. or surge from one tank into the other. that would be very cool. I dont think I have seen a gravity system that surges from one tank down into the next tank. that might be cool.

 

[jason]

guys anybody got any good ideas on how to hook up a prop system with either 3 75g tanks or 3 90g tanks to a 100g sump and a 55g dsb refugium?

Are your tanks regular dimensioned tanks, or they frag tank? Meaning lower height? That would be the main issue in this case. Don't want to spend too much money on electricity to pentrate a deeper tank.

Gravity flow would be the best bet, with your refugium on the bottom with a flood light as a form of lighting. Once you set it up post come pics.

 

[kgross]

You can do a few different things for flow. If you have the vertical height, do them one tank to the next with a drilled overflow in each tank dropping down to your sump system. If you don't have the vertical room. I would do them all in parallal, so that water goes from the pump into a manifold then into each tank. Each tank as a drain that goes down to sump/fuge.

For flow in the tanks, you can do raceways, which work well, but can be a pain, or just add a couple of good high flow powerheads to each tank.

For lighting, either size tank, I would suggest putting in an egg crate rack to put the corals on, so you are not trying to light the whole tank, just the top 6 inches or so.

Kim

 

[TomNeely]

Use Uniseals and gravity to flow through your 3 x 75 gallon tanks through your Remote deep sand bed then back to your refugium/sump. I had three 100 gallon rubermaid tubs waterfalling before being pumped back up to my 240 display upstairs. I used cinder blocks to stack the tanks at different heights for the waterfall effect.

Hope this helps

Harpo

Have a picture of the 3 100's?

 

[Chad]

I used to use a system with 7 33L tanks in one system with one 33 long above 2 stands with 3 33L's stacked above each other and my top 33 was a refugium and it had 6 holes drilled in it so that it could overflow directly into each of the frag tanks and then the water pumped into the upper 2 33's and just gravity drained through the tanks down to the sump.
Worked out great! I was mostly moving ACRO's out of that system.
Chad.