DIY Fish Room Auto Water Change System 

This video is still so helpful. I've watched it so many times setting up my fishroom. Wish there was some new videos 😂. Thank you

This is the best, most well-explained video of this water change system that I've seen! Thank you!

Links to the supplies needed for this project: kit.co/stevepoland/fishroom-auto-water-change-system

Awesome job. I've bred fish before and always had to do water changes manually. I couldn't expand anymore due to the amount of labor in changing water and the crazy time consumption. This was 15 years ago or so ago. This makes me think of going back into the hobby and also a second source of income. This is a great setup.

This all definitely makes your water changes so much easier ... you've done a great job Steve and you explained it all so well 🤗🤗

This is one of the best video walk-tho on a water change system

Hi Steve that big aquarium is looking good. When I used a chlorine filter for the first time I thought the fish were behaving less nervous and they were growing and breeding much better...

So funny Steve. I was in the process of doing this exact type system before I moved. I had the shower valve install and used it for individual tank changes. I just had a baby and needed to spend less time in the fish room. So I planned on an automatic change system to spend more time with the family. I was gonna use a sprinkler also. Super nice to do changes and fish room maintenance without even being in there. Good job.

Wow man! Awesome video again! I wish I had a big fish room! Your tanks are looking so nice! *_Keep up the good work and thumbs up!_*

Wow. What a,world of information. My head is still spinnin' haha. Will be watching several more times to fully digest. Thanks for the detailed run down

My friend hopefully you don't live in a freezing temperatures place, am a plumber and I recommend always use CPVC inside the home it can hold up to 300 psi I believe and even more in cold water. Nice Job by the way ,very nice layout

You made this really ready to understand man I appreciate it alot. Keep up the great work bro

I am so glad I found this, as I am currently working on building a fish room!

Excellent work on this project. Word to wise...make sure to buy extra solenoid valve assemblies as in a couple of years the manufacturer changes the specs and you will have to cut out the bad bad valve as opposed to just replacing the gasket/seal/valve.

Love your videos, instructional, clear and rigth down to the point! Thanks

I gotta say that's impressive! I have 7 tanks currently and am planning out a similar system but on a smaller scale. This is super super helpful! :)

Very well explained, feels easy to redo your project. Now I just wish I could hide the pipes in the living room haha.

Awesome system, the one I'm working on used to be very similar and ran into similar issues you discussed at the end. Awesome videos too, great detail

Great video with well organised content! Great work mate! 👍🏻

Nice video Im a big fan, all your videos are always well thought out...and your tanks and fish stocks are always amazing. Nice job Steve..

You have a great Instructional Video voice!

Excellent video! Thanks for being so concise too. Super clean work

Great breakdown and well-produced video. Thanks for sharing.

This video helped a lot! Thanks so much for this, we are building or store's fish room right now and using this method!

Steve if the fish business ever gets slow you can come help me plumb! haha nice work man. The shower valve as a substitute for a mixing valve is clever as well, a cheaper and just as effective route.

Thanks so much this video is so informative can't tell how much,nicely presented ,in your debt😥😥😷😷THANKS!!

Great Set-up Steve. You are giving me some great ideas for when i move into my new house.

well done Steve! great job explaining your project definitely one for the books

very cool and convenient system thanx for sharing Steve!!

You know you're a complete blockhead when you come away from a video as thoroughly informative as this one, only to have learned how to properly apply the infamous teflon tape to the threaded piece of pipe. Oh, how I've been doing it all wrong, Thank You, Steve.

Very well done Steve I really need something like that too...Thanks

Great vid! Please keep em coming!

Congrats on 100k

Great video and system. Good job Steve!

nice one! great job capturing all the steps, easy to follow

Nice. Thanks for posting this. I will be trying something like this in the near future.

That is a great idea to use a sprinkling system!

Nice work and thanks for sharing. Know that another fishkeeper will be using ideas from this video when I design my fishroom auto-water change solution.

Very detailed video. Thanks for sharing.

HELL OF A JOB MAN! this video could have been 1hr long and i would have watched.. Only question is Have is how did you automate water being removed from the tanks? Not sure if you said that or not in the vid...

Fantastic job! Have you considered using longer fresh water supply lines to bring the end of the tubing toward the bottom of the tank, under the water? That might further minimize the amount of new water being removed.

AWESOME VIDEO! This is sooooo helpful for setting up my own system!

So how much/long do you have timer set for for changes? 10% a day? Or just for time periods? And how has it changed your siphoning schedule for each tank? Great work Steve, certainly one of the more thorough and informative youtubers out there!

Not to be a party pooper but I would use clear pvc primer as well. It makes a difference especially if that preventing your basement from flooding. It really does add holding power.

really nice build

I was trying to figure out how this system performed everything for a water change, then I realized not everyone runs saltwater tanks... Very jealous of this system.

Great setup and video!..Nicely done! Too bad this those solenoid valves won’t work for saltwater ..perhaps o could design a similar system using motorized gate or ball valves. I’m thinking something like this: I drill and install a drain valve in my sump’s return chamber (with motorized ball valve controlled by my Apex controller)..then once return pump is switched off, the top level of water from display tank that fills up that chamber (until siphon break) can be drained out with the motorized drain valve. New saltwater is then filled using a timer and the motorized valve would close after timer stops the new water input..to ensure exact same water level is achieved before the main return pump switches back on. I’d think this would be fairly simple and failsafe right? In the event the motorized ball vale fails I’d make sure the amount of changed water would cause a flood. Thanks for video and the inspiration! Cheers

Brilliant Steve!

Looking good Steve!

Really nice setup.

Can you do a video showing how your auto water changer runs on your 300 gallon tank? Like how do you automatically start the draining of your tank to do the change?

not sure what it is but something is telling me this guy really likes fish

wow this impressive system and i hope to be able to do the same with my tank.

Awesome job and great project

Genius, your videos are excellent

That is called a thermostatic valve. You can get a low temperature version that is more suitable for fish keeping than the higher temp one for shower.

AQUARIUM CO-OP!!! 👍🏻

Hi. At time stamp 9:10, what is that clear plastic strip called and/or where did you get it? Love the detailed video.

great info Steve. u have give me some things to consider

That's going to help a lot Great video

Awesome Steve! I don't have a basement to setup in, but I do have a crawl space. So I wonder if I could modify this to run from my water source in the garage, under the house, to my fish room? Thank you for sharing! This is very reactive and inspiring!

great vid would love to try rhis system in the future with my tank

Question, why did you not put one pressure reducing valve on your incoming supply to the water change system which then alleviates the need for 3 extra units and using one on each circut?

I have a suggestion I use pvc in a lot of projects and make sure to also use pvc primer as well as pvc cement

Chloramine is very difficult to pre-filter with anything at any significant volume. Look into using a dosing pump to treat source water for Chloramine water supplies, with a conditioner like Prime.

Thx for a look behind..very nice explained. .thanks that for

Great video! I'm planning out a water change delivery system now and wondering how water tight those plastic flow control valves drilled into the pvc are? (Think they're from Jemhco) Do they ever leak at all?

The description on the filter says it works when at 0.5 gallons per minute. How do you keep below that mark? If using more flow, wouldn't you need more filters in parallel? Perhaps there is a larger version that handles more flow.

So do you have to remineralize the water? Or do the carbon filters not affect that? Looking to use a system like this but don't know if the filters would strip my nice hard water of all its trace elements. Would rather not have to dose buffers etc.

Thanks, it is helpful. But, I didn't get it how the old water will move out of tank.

Steve, this was an AWESOME video. Probably one of the best you have made. Really instructional and I enjoyed it a ton. In the future I am planning to do one of these systems and I will be sure to look back at this video. A couple of questions: 1. How long did this take you and 2. If you don't mind, can you give a ball park of price?

This would be great, if I had a basement.... lol

A check valve generally does not relief pressure. If there is little flow, a check valve is not tight enough to have any impact on pressure. (no matter how clogged a pressurized system is, the pressure is the same). If there is significantly fast flow, the pressure drop (due to friction) is experienced in the other direction-- the other end of the check valve. What reduces pressure is a pressure regulator. Lower pressure is safer for a fish room for less chance of leak or rupture, but feed into an RO unit (if present) has to be high to get the rated GPD per the membrane.

Sweet set up..

Steve, can you show how you plumbed this system to/from your 220? Excellent video, as usual...keep up the good work!

Great video and an awesome project.

top-notch video... kudos!

Where can I buy the water filter housings

Steve. I’ve had my similar system running for about 2 months now. I run about 40 to 50 gallons a day through the filters...how often should they be changed?

Steve. Finally figured out that my leaks are coming from the threaded pvc connectors between each filter. They seat all the way to the filter housing and thus don’t ever really get tightened. I’ve looked at your video but don’t see what you used to connect the 3.

It's been awhile, curious how the filters hold up with warm water running through them as opposed to the cold incoming city feed.

Isn't that just a mixing valve? In my area the cold water tap temperature can be decently lower in the winter... Which in turn would mean the mixed temp would be lower. The valves I have put in during remodeling always had a limit control for the hot side which limits the amount of water that can come from the hot water line. But it doesn't adjust based on the temperature flowing through it like a thermostatic valve would do.

I keep looking at that White lipped Cichlid... Man they're beautiful. This is a beautiful system. Thanks for the video. I forgot to ask.... How did you support the 220 UPSTAIRS? Do you have supports from the basement?

Could you make that type of system but off the grid

This video is awesome AWESOME!!!!!!!

Nice setup !! how do you drain your tanks automaticly ? !

can you do a video of it in action changing the water? like draining and then filling automatically? great quality videos

nicely done.

Every time I think you run a out of space in that tiny little basement of yours, you find more room for more equipment. What an awesome project Steve, great job. I'm sure you are checking and double checking for leaks. How are you connecting the brass and pvc together? Also, how do your tanks drain automatically before filled, did I miss that? Or are you just relying on the overflow drains from your auto water drip system? If so, aren't you dumping some mixed new water with the old?

I got a whole house water filter, my ph going in is 7 coming out 8.4 is this normal? Did you see this in your filter?

Great video thanks

I'm interested in knowing how do you control how much water leave and enters each tank?

You didn’t use pvc primer nor did u hold the new joint tightly together after gluing for 20-30 seconds as you should to prevent leaks and form a proper bond

you're very clever Steve :>)

Awesome video !

Wow Steve, very informative video, Good job!!! P.S. Do you happen to have a parts breakdown lists?

Using the brass fittings won't harm the fish?

Your system being in the basement and near the hot water tank you probably don't have an issue with the time lapsed between the start of water and the time it takes for the hot water to actually reach the system. But if the system was used say on the main floor and on a series of 10 or 20 gallon tanks where the water changes were faster would there be an issue?

This is such an awesome video. I just... don't have any tanks -.-

great video....your a talented guy......very interesting video........