You only need it to fill the tubes, and then it can be put away for the next time. All you need is an electric tyre inflater, a plastic sealed box large enough to put the pump into, and a little reverse engineering. The vacuum pump is very simple to rig up. It won't be until the autumn at least before I can make a start on this project. Unfortunately you'll have to wait for a while, since we are now in high season and all my time is taken up with work (apart from the few hours a day that I devote to looking after all the fish!). Both tanks effectively become one, and the fish have to be able to get on with each other, which limits the options somewhat.
Of course, linking the tanks this way has it's drawbacks. I have no doubt that it will do just as good a job on the tubes. Just get a plec and let it roam! Mine does a fantastic job of cleaning the tower when I let it loose. Using a powerhead to force the flow through will have the same effect so long as it take the feed from the end tank and the flow is able to return again, but this is more difficult to work. This can be run through a canister filter or just directly from end to end, but it will force the water to flow in the opposite direction through the tube because the tanks will always try to level out. The easiest way is to force equalisation from one tank to the other by pumping water out of one tank and back into the second, third or twentieth, whichever is the end one. As for circulation, there are several ways that this can be achieved. As long as air is kept out they are fine. Once everything is filled, even power cuts don't have any effect on them. It's a fascinating system and I spent hours developing the pump to fill these structures. You need to use a vacuum pump to to fill them, and so long as the tanks are level and the ends stay under water, they will stay full. Gravity has no effect on these tubes as long as they are airtight.
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wow that's a mouth full haha one day some one on here will do this haha I think it would work how about you? but your next mission is to hook up a set of hamster maze tubes and run it from one tank to another the same way !!! haha j/k but that would be vary cool I would think you would need a large pvc pipe that is clear so you can see in it where the fish are and to hook a power head to it every now and then to clean the pipe out, one day ill try that out and connect like 5 or 6 fish tanks, my worry is what if the power goes out what would it to do all the water in the top half, gravity would some how come in to affect but I also was thinking what if you took a tank what would hold all that water and put the tube all the way at the bottem and sucked the water from there and if the water where to back flow it would just fill up that extra tank and you could put like some small crabs in there or a turtle and it wouldnt be to much water unless all the water were to rush in to it but the turtle could have a floating piece of drift wood or rock it would get on.
I would have ot hook up another large filter to my tank that I can't affored now. You did the best job ever I loved it thought about doing it my self but I'm to lazy to get in to that yet.
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