Is it possible to run 3 tanks on 1 canister

**crackatinny** · 08-11-2007, 07:27 AM

I am thinking of making a 3 15G tank breeding setup, tanks would be in a metal frame one on top of the other.

Is it possible to run 1 large canister filter for the 3, if so, how would you plumb it?, I am worried about getting a blockage and overflowing tanks.

**Dave66** · 08-11-2007, 08:47 AM

Its perfectly possible. I have 36 tanks on a canister the size of a rubbermaid trashcan. What you need is a line splitter for the outflow and on the inflow. The splitters plug into the tubes. You put hoses on the ends and route them to the desired tanks.
Obviously you need a fairly lusty canister filter to do it.
You can get the parts from aquaticeco.com. Just email them what you want to do, and they'll direct you to what you need. It's where I get all my aquarium plumbing supplies.

Dave

**crackatinny** · 08-11-2007, 09:04 AM

Thanks Dave, only prob with your source is I am in Australia, by a line splitter, do you mean like a Tpeice?

What is to stop one tank getting more water back through the return than the others, leading to a possible overflow?

**Lady Hobbs** · 08-11-2007, 09:13 AM

You might want to consider just sponge filters, crack, on breeding tanks or will have to cover the strainer with something so babies aren't getting sucked in.

**Dave66** · 08-11-2007, 09:16 AM

Not like a T-piece, like three fingers spread out. The tanks don't overflow for the same reason a canister on one tank doesn't; each tank's connection is porportional to the others. The line splitters are designed to keep things even.
You know, I was dead sure aquaticeco shipped to Oz. Knew you were an aussie.
Though my central system was readymade (came from a defunct LFS) the principal is quite simple. You just need the parts and a canister powerfull enough to run three tanks.

Dave

**salman** · 08-11-2007, 10:15 AM

Can you take a picture of your tank dave? I want to do the same thing crack wants to do. But i dont get what you mean by the line splitter. And do you get 3 tanks attached together or like a 45 gallon with 3 dividers?

**salman** · 08-11-2007, 10:24 AM

I think this is what we want crack, right?

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But how do we set that up?

**crackatinny** · 08-11-2007, 10:35 AM

No mine would be seperate tanks on top of each other.

To set up a canister in the one like you posted, I think it would only be a matter of putting the intake and outtake at oposate ends of the tank, which should cause a flow through the whole tank. I may be wrong, but it sounds logical lol,