tank with sump. put buckets on floor. connect each bucket to another one
with a siphon. connect last bucket to sump with siphon.

the water level in the sump will stay at the level in each bucket.

"Brian Lewis" wrote in message
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Please send a diagram. Thanks!




"wolfhedd" wrote in message
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i have a neat idea for those of you that dont like to add water
frequently,
reduces maintence, easy. I took a 5 gal bucket last week, brought it
home
with fresh RO, like usual, but got an idea this time, took a siphon
hose,
attached it to sump, now theyre one. have 4 more gallons on my sump
now.
works in two ways, incase of poweroutage, more space in sump, about 9
gals,
and incase of vacation, i can add as m any of these 5 gal buckets with 4
gal
of water in them as i like, in fast i could fill my living floor with
them
daisy chaining them to eachother with a connectinig siphon hose on each.
this will all siphon into the sump as the sump line gets lower than the
buckets. of course this is impractical, but you get the idea(ie... a 20
gallon flat wide sump next to a refugium inside a tamk stands bowels) .
i would keep a lid on the reseviour to keep water as clean as possible,
when
you need to add water to your tank, add it to the resorviour to keep
from
stirring up the sump contents.

2 things to remember,
resorvior waterline must be no higher than ideal sump water height,
(unless
resorvior is watertight then it wouldnt be a siphon, and you would be
redesigning my idea, lol)

and THIS WILL NOT ADD TO YOUR TANKS TOTAL VOLUME OF CIRCULATED FILTERED
WATER. it will only add a backup system to keep water level from being
reduced as quickly, there-by REDUCING MAINTENANCE.

wolfhedd

p.s. if i totally confused anyone, i can send you a paint diagram
sometime