Water tank for pwc's

[jet]

Was thinking of buying a water tank to get my water to temp and condition for my water changes. With an inline pump. Any ideas to build off of this or different ideas completely would be awesome. Its going in a filtration room/large closet.

-Jet

 

[dogofwar]

I've used Rubbermaid's stock tanks in the past - they come in 50, 100, 150 and 300g sizes, if I remember...are plastic...even plumbed with a 1 1/4" drain in the bottom.

That said, I just run a garden hose of tap to my tanks to fill them.

Matt

 

[jet]

Did you just put a heater in to get water to temp?

-Jet

 

[dogofwar]

Since I had a good amount of room in my garage fishroom (in California), I used the Stock Tanks to feed water to my auto-water change system.

I (auto) refilled the tub each day with a garden hose using a float valve. In warm weather I didn't heat it (just let nature warm it up a bit)

In winter, I covered the tank with a piece of styrofoam and kept a 300W heater in it. Probably should have put the stick tank on styro or insulation as well.

After a couple of months of this, to lower electrical use I switched from heating the water to just running warm water from the tap.

Matt

Did you just put a heater in to get water to temp?

-Jet

 

[jet]

I was looking for a way to do auto water change and auto top offs from my filtration room to my display and quarantine tanks

-Jet

 

[69cichlids]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJ3eAE4qQE&feature=youtube_gdata_player. This might help you out or give you an idea.
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[jet]

Thank you that did help sorry for the delayed response. I am going to do a drain pipe that exits the house controlled by ball valves and a stock tank to put water in the day before pwc with its own heater and will treat the water since I use tap water. I will have it pumped into the sump to go straight to the display tank. Its a 60 gallon stock tank.

-Jet