How about an automatic sprinkler valve on a timer and an overflow from
the sump to the drain and you have automatic water changing. You could
hard plum the python to the drain no splashing then. If you have water
and a drain there you are set you can do anything you want.

"Bill" wrote in message news:5EDXa.34937$Ne.11167@fed1read03...
"Christina Marie Thompson" wrote in message
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Kudzu,

You sound a lot like me. My dream house will have a river running
through it. I haven't quite figured out how it will work, but I want a
continuous flow of water from one end of the house to the other. I could
have it a floor level and just have bridges at the doorways, and that
would work fine for fish that look pretty from above, like koi. But I
want a mini-Amazon with all South American tropical fish and plants. And
tropicals generally look prettiest from the side, so I have to figure
out how to have an eye-level river and still deal with doorways,
windows, and such.

All it takes is money