Water Bridge

[happyhillbilly]

I saw a topic today about building a waterbridge. Heres a website with plans http://www.bio-elite.com/waterbridge.htm I am not going to pay 50 bucks for a piece of PVC. So, to my question. Does anyone know if I can purchase one already made? I want to connect 2 10 gal. TIA

 

[Fishalicious]

so cool 8)

 

[oscarbreeder]

Thats sweet!!

 

[poppab02]

man, now I'm going to have to build one

 

[chasgood]

I someone marketed one it would be a hot seller.

 

[chasgood]

Well what do ya know. Lookie at what I found. Not the same but cool.
http://store.yahoo.com/animalworldnetwork/baqtrailaqki.html
http://letoy.co.uk/bridge_aquarium.htm

And here is pics of something on a grand scale.
http://www.fishighway.com/photos.html

 

[Fishalicious]

OUTRAGEOUS!!!
I love it!!

 

[happyhillbilly]

The fish highway is amazing! Thanks for the links

 

[oscarbreeder]

HMM....
A fish highway, now thats just what I need.
The wife would kill me..LOL

 

[xxmoorishmanxx]

i wonder how you would clean algea out of something like the highway

 

[krap101]

just chlorine the tank every month or so :/

 

[Todd2]

That fish highway is insane!

 

[Guest]

You wouldn't have to clean out the algae, the pleco would eat it until he gets so big he might get stuck.

 

[happyhillbilly]

On the small waterbridge the guy who made it says that he never needed to clean it.

 

[illuminum]

It seems like you'd run into a lot of miscellaneous problems with this sort of system. When you make your water changes, you most likely have to siphon the water again to make the "water bridge" since the tubes to not go very far below the water level. Algae is also another issue that people may face.

The fish Highway is an amazing idea and the pictures are incredible. I bet it's such a pain to keep clean though. Would the tanks have their own separate filttarion systems or would there be a current developed where one tank is the drain tank and teh other is the return tank.

Also, bubbles will likely get into the Fish Highway and would be the biigest pain in the but to get rid of. Heh, imagine if something DIED in the highway and there was no current to get it out...

 

[chasgood]

The bright light is mainly in the tank not in the tube. So algae may not be a problem.
If I were to make one the tube would need to go down into the tank lower than the water level would ever get doing water changes.
The all in one mini tank (link posted earlier in this thread) might be a way to see how much of a pain they are.