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Hello and welcome once again,
I'm going to be focusing primarily on my fish tank
in this set of clips.
As you can see, it's getting
kinda full of stuff.
In there ...
and the fish are
hiding as always.
because my aquaponics system has
grown somewhat since I initially started,
it's definitely time to increase the overall
flood control.
Just in case all my water should dump out at once.
So, today I'll be replacing this single rubber tote, with a two rubber tote system,
that should allow my fish to have a constant water level,
and give me twice as much space for overflow.
Here, I've got my new bins all ready to go,
over here
is an example of what i'm going to do.
I'm just going to set up a standing drain,
that pulls water from the very bottom to ...
this point here.
Where it will empty into the next drain,
and the pump will take it from there.
And, this should allow the fish to have
a more consistent water level.
I've got my rubbermade totes here,
although I don't think they're actually rubbermade,
and I'm just gonna mark
where I want to drill my holes,
because these need to line up perfectly.
So, let's just get that tote somewhere stable and we can get started.
You want to make sure you're lined up
exactly with where you want to place your hole,
and just get the pilot hole started without actually doing the digging yet,
as you can see, that really bites in.
Once you get your pilot hole started, you're just going to want to reverse your drill,
if you go at this backwards, you'll get a much smoother cut.
If you've used the correct size drill bit for your fitting, you should be able to just screw this
right through the side. It'll be a tight fit, but tight is good,
that means you've got a nice seal for your water.
So, I got these washers
at a local dollar store, a pack of ten of them cost me maybe two dollars total,
and they just fit onto the fixtures like so ...
to help create a nice tight seal when I attach it to the tank.
All right, let's get started putting these two together.
So, I'm going to thread this through again
and I'm going to want to make sure I put a rubber
seal on the outside of this
just so I'm not leaking into my main greenhouse floor.
That, looks like a nice tight seal to me.
More of a close-up view of the
two connectors I ended up using here.
I think it's apparent that I'm going to have to put a solid spacer in there,
maybe a 2x4 or a 2x6 we'll see what fits.
Now, I've just got to put in my actual standing drain,
Looks like once we've got some water weight in here
this will probably create more than enough of a gap,
that we can use it as a drain.
Let's put some water in and find out.
Now that the water level has reached the T in this tank,
it's starting to flood over into the other tank for me.
to help keep this at a consistent height.
This should allow my fish a lot more freedom of movement in their tank and
and it should allow me to put more fish in there,
to get more nutrients for my plants.
The old fish tank,
and [humming]
the new fishtank!
Complete with hiding holes, tunnels and all kinds of stuff.
I ended up having to change the size of the drain,
instead of the original half inch, that is a one inch pipe,
and now I don't have any overflow issues to deal with.
I'm just waiting for the water to clarify before I throw the fish in.
So, here we are at the end of the project
many of my fish moved over to their new tank.
Extra pieces of irrigation pipe in there, for caves of all shapes and sizes.
Thank you all for watching,
and have a fantastic day!