Not possible. It works on the syphon principle only and in case of power failure top tank will keep draining until the water level goes below to drain pipe.
Hello Rob Fox i like the system on your aquarium or the all set up on your video. am wondering if this will going to work on the monster fish like 2 arowana. 1 aroawan at the bottom and 1 arowana on top. 1 pump only. is it ok? am wondering what if only 1 arowana that have pump will good condition but the other one arowan that have no pump will be un healthy. what do you think?
I really like this Idea 💡 I have a big bow front 480 liter tank that I want to set up for new stock. It has glass brace's around the top edge so a hob filter isn't going to work. I didn't want anything in side the tank or anything above it either really so an under sump is Ideal. But how to fit a sump with out drilling the glass tank and getting around them brace's ? Now I have seen this I can give it a shot 🙏🏻 I think it's just answered my question ❓ thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
i would'nt call this a fail safe anything.... Sure it's okay for a power outage, but what is the blue pipe gets clocked or if the seal around the air hose fail and the blue pipe gets air in=? then you have wet floors mate, it works for now but it's not fail safe
I bought a small plastic container from the supermarket, then superglued another piece of plastic to it and heated and bent that piece to hook onto the tank.
thats all well and fine, but if your using your fish tank as part of ornamental piece for you home , like furniture, and you will be looking at hoses and pumps, not to attractive is it?
@@robertdotfox i think it is the simplest and best overflow system I’ve ever seen! I was thinking about drilling a hole but this is a risky operation. I want to install a drip water change system with an overflow. I think I am going to try with your system. Thank you very much for this excellent video.
I've been waiting to find a video like this to figure out a failsafe sump set up, AND I wanted an above tank gravity setup as well. Just hit the jackpot with this. I was also told that if you drill a small hole like a 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch below the water line on the intake tube, that will break the vaccum/siphon also. Seems logical but haven't tried it for sure. That would mean you could eliminate the hanging overflow box from the system and therefore a few fail points, no?
Nice system! What you have there is actually a bell syphon but with the bell higher than the water level which avoids drilling the tank but requires priming just once. Do you have a float sensor to shut the pump off if air ever leeches into the pipe or the filter clogs? Without it you could potentially overflow the middle tank. You could use a peristaltic pump to re-prime that pipe if the float sensor triggers.
Hi! Tried to copy your very cool setup just have a question about jumpstarting the siphon tube why wont my siphon tube siphon water when i suck it? Thank yoj hope youll read this.
Because it’s not a siphon. As long as there is no air in the blue U-shaped pipe, it will only equalize the water level in the top main tank and the little side overflow box. Once those levels are equal, water will not flow. The way to make the water flow continuously is to constantly pump water into the top main tank, then the water will flow through the blue U-shaped pipe and out of the overflow box.
It's not much flow in the tank. You show us what happened when the power goes down. But what happend in case of an overflow issue? Is that case the upper tank is not able to contain the water from the lower tank.
This is more like a top filter than an actual sump . Plus using common filter between two tanks always risks cross contamination . You do not need an overflow box for a top sump . I don’t know what you are really trying here .
new to the aquarist world and amazed with the awesome setup you have. would you mind sharing more about the filter you used in the main tank. and also how you made the side flow system you made. much much appreciated!
very nice concept and beautiful video.Liked your setup very much. How is the suction power the filter has.. does the aquarium waste collected and pulled to the lower tank.. thanks
