Cylinder Tank Plumbing

PanchoG · Jul 9, 2018

I am trying to set up a cylinder tank with a friend of mine for jellyfishes. But he does not want to put a central column to move the water and we are ending up having the tank completely drained when there is an outage.

Does anyone has experience with this type of plumbing? (cylinder w/o column)

Thanks in advance.

pluikens · Jul 9, 2018

Do you have a picture? Are you planning to use a sump or what are your filtration plans? If you could go with a pressurized filter, then no water will be lost during an outage and valves/unions can be used to disconnect the filter from the plumbing to maintain the filter with very minimal water loss.

PanchoG · Jul 9, 2018

pluikens said:
Do you have a picture? Are you planning to use a sump or what are your filtration plans? If you could go with a pressurized filter, then no water will be lost during an outage and valves/unions can be used to disconnect the filter from the plumbing to maintain the filter with very minimal water loss.

Hello, yes, we are setting up a sump for the filtration with socks and skimmer. The wholes are drilled on the bottom of the crushed coral bed. How are the pressurized filters?

Here are the pics:

pluikens · Jul 9, 2018

A pressurized filter would be like a canister filter as you'd more typically see in a freshwater setup and on a larger scale like a Hayward or Aqua Ultraviolet media filter for swimming pools and koi ponds, respectively. Canister filters can get a bad rap as nutrient factories but if they are maintained regularly, they can work well. If you plumbed in a canister filter (both inlet and outlet), there's nowhere for the water to run when the power is off and the pump is used to circulate water between your display and through the filter media. It would basically be like pumping display water through multiple reactors and back into your display.

PanchoG · Jul 9, 2018

pluikens said:
A pressurized filter would be like a canister filter as you'd more typically see in a freshwater setup and on a larger scale like a Hayward or Aqua Ultraviolet media filter for swimming pools and koi ponds, respectively. Canister filters can get a bad rap as nutrient factories but if they are maintained regularly, they can work well. If you plumbed in a canister filter (both inlet and outlet), there's nowhere for the water to run when the power is off and the pump is used to circulate water between your display and through the filter media. It would basically be like pumping display water through multiple reactors and back into your display.

Good, thank you for the tip! I will check on those.