Water change from basement

[Drummond]

Hey, I'm looking for ideas here. I don't want anything too complicated at this point so no auto water change systems...yet. I just want to pump water straight up from my basement to the first floor, no vertical runs. I'd also like to keep the hole in the floor 1" or less.

I have an unused Panworld pump which can handle the height no problem but I'd prefer the simplicity of a submersible pump on a remote switch, maybe a PMUP? I'm pumping from a Brute.

Or, if I used a Python to drain the water down, maybe a pump that I could put on the same tube as the Python uses to pump it back up?

 

[Snoopy 67]

1 - Measure the water in the brute.
2 - Make a siphon U Tube to hang on the side of the tank with a strainer on tank side.
(I can send a pic.) It should break siphon when it reaches whatever water is in the brute.
3 - Pump brute into tank & DONE.

 

[Devaji]

I was thinking something like the above. auto aqua dose make a system with optical sensors but you would need bigger pump to get the water back up.

I thought about water changes from the basement for a while. I think I am just gonna to AWC with a dose.

do let us know hows it goes.

 

[Brian_68]

I use a litermeter 3 and pump it up to the main tank from a saltwater storage tank in the basement. It overflows from the side of the sump thru an overflow back down to the basement laundry tub drain. I change about 2-3 gal per day everyday. Two small 1/4" lines only. I add freshwater for evaporation from another litermeter dialed in to the daily evaporation rate. Check the salinity every week or so just in case my evaporation makeup is off.