This Thread is for people with tanks on their patio or deck, outdoors. (Pools and ponds do not count.)
This is my first outdoor aquarium ever, and it's been a real learning experience so far.
Right now it is populated by 2 plecos, 2 convicts, 2 serpae tetra, and 5 assorted corys and ancistrus.
The patio tank is 55 gallons and it drains to a 30 gallon sump. My 125 gallon indoor tank also drains through the wall to the same sump.
I plumbed it all up with some pretty stout stuff.
I changed that pump for a larger one right away as it is only a 365 GPH.
So they all share water and this mitigates having two plecos in just a 55, because the 125 is underpopulated. I'm actually only carrying about 180 gallons of water in a theoretically 210 gallon system, but it seems to be enough.
Here is where the plumbing goes through the wall to the indoor tank.
There was a tiny leak and you can see the wet spot below the feed pipe on the concrete. I actually had to cut that apart and reglue it. It moved while I was gluing the pipe and the second time I put on sandbags to hold the pipe as I pushed it together.
This is the sump without the insulation on it. Each tank drains to its own floss basket & 5g media bucket .
There are two Eheim heaters in the sump. I am also running this fluidized bed sand filter, because a friend gave it to me, but it's not really cycled yet. This is the first test that I gave it and it's on a different sump.
I'm growing pothos in a pond basket and a garnet yam which is just exploding.
This is my first outdoor aquarium ever, and it's been a real learning experience so far.
Right now it is populated by 2 plecos, 2 convicts, 2 serpae tetra, and 5 assorted corys and ancistrus.
The patio tank is 55 gallons and it drains to a 30 gallon sump. My 125 gallon indoor tank also drains through the wall to the same sump.
I plumbed it all up with some pretty stout stuff.
I changed that pump for a larger one right away as it is only a 365 GPH.
So they all share water and this mitigates having two plecos in just a 55, because the 125 is underpopulated. I'm actually only carrying about 180 gallons of water in a theoretically 210 gallon system, but it seems to be enough.
Here is where the plumbing goes through the wall to the indoor tank.
There was a tiny leak and you can see the wet spot below the feed pipe on the concrete. I actually had to cut that apart and reglue it. It moved while I was gluing the pipe and the second time I put on sandbags to hold the pipe as I pushed it together.
This is the sump without the insulation on it. Each tank drains to its own floss basket & 5g media bucket .
There are two Eheim heaters in the sump. I am also running this fluidized bed sand filter, because a friend gave it to me, but it's not really cycled yet. This is the first test that I gave it and it's on a different sump.
I'm growing pothos in a pond basket and a garnet yam which is just exploding.
