Hello! Hoping some of you have ideas / experience in something similar and can offer ideas / experiences!
I'm planning on an in wall peninsula display tank seperating a utility and kitchen, with a seperate fish room with the sump and frag tanks in another room separated by a corridor. Below the display tank there's a low cellar which can be accessed via a manhole cover, but this is not something i'd want to do more than once every few months, ideally less!
My question is: Given the below diagram what would be the best way of plumbing these four tanks together to provide a robust setup? Happy to consider additional tank in the cellar, multiple pumps etc. any ideas welcome! The white gaps in the floow are opening / gaps which can take c. 40mm piping.
As an aside, in a previous build i've used an inverted U bend pipe to syphon between two tanks at the same level, and an overflow going into to a sump at a lower level, with a return pump back to one of the upper tanks. This worked surprisingly well, except I had to suck out an air pocket in the inverted U pipe that formed about once a week or so. I'm guessing this was down to microbubbles in the water column collecting at the highest point. So i'm hoping to draw on experience from the community to try and avoid unexpected side effects of non-standard plumbing.
I've put together a rough.. (thanks MS Paint) scale profile view of the proposed setup, hopefully this helps explain what i'm trying to do, happy to draw up a plan view if it would help, my MS Paint skills don't extend to being able to render this in 3D... Sorry!
I'm planning on an in wall peninsula display tank seperating a utility and kitchen, with a seperate fish room with the sump and frag tanks in another room separated by a corridor. Below the display tank there's a low cellar which can be accessed via a manhole cover, but this is not something i'd want to do more than once every few months, ideally less!
My question is: Given the below diagram what would be the best way of plumbing these four tanks together to provide a robust setup? Happy to consider additional tank in the cellar, multiple pumps etc. any ideas welcome! The white gaps in the floow are opening / gaps which can take c. 40mm piping.
As an aside, in a previous build i've used an inverted U bend pipe to syphon between two tanks at the same level, and an overflow going into to a sump at a lower level, with a return pump back to one of the upper tanks. This worked surprisingly well, except I had to suck out an air pocket in the inverted U pipe that formed about once a week or so. I'm guessing this was down to microbubbles in the water column collecting at the highest point. So i'm hoping to draw on experience from the community to try and avoid unexpected side effects of non-standard plumbing.
I've put together a rough.. (thanks MS Paint) scale profile view of the proposed setup, hopefully this helps explain what i'm trying to do, happy to draw up a plan view if it would help, my MS Paint skills don't extend to being able to render this in 3D... Sorry!