andresdeo
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James_in_MN said:Interesting concept. But I do have two questions.
1) How does that setup work when you need to do a PWC? The lip of the top tank has to always be below the water level of the bottom one or you'll end up with Niagra Falls in your living room, right? So what happens when you need to deliberately remove water to get the nitrAte levels down?
2) Wouldn't those tanks be a problem with homeowners/renters insurance? Granted, you don't typically have a walk-through when starting new insurance, but I would think that you invite more potential problems with that setup vs a standard tank.
I can't imagine that any rental property would allow upside-down tanks, no matter how well you try to explain it to them. Mine won't allow a tank over 55 gallons.
1) Yes the water level has to be always above the lip of the vertical tank. No problem with PWC because the gap between the top of the tank and the lip of the vertical tank is sufficient. To remoce the water from the vertical tank what I do is faurly simple introduce a tube with a floation device on the end. If you want water to be chantes into the
Horizontal tank you blow in and the water is displaced by air. What im currently trying to do is setup a permanent circulation between the two with a PowerHead or such to forget about that and do regular pwc.
2) im not sure about insurance. Im a house owner but I live in Peru, so policies here aré much different. Your agent can probably sort that out for you before hand. If you do it properly and short of an earthquake you shoukd be fine.