plumbing question:

[geminianspark]

For those of you with breeding setups where there is a hole drilled in a tank and then a bulkhead added... and return lines across the top with ball valves... if you need to take a particular tank offline you simply turn off the incoming water and let the overflow go to the sump, correct?

I am currently setting up my first tank for "possible" breeding down the road and want to drill it and add a bulkhead but am not ready to hook it to any other plumbing right now... i just want the hole drilled while it is empty so i don't have to do it later after i've got inhabitants in it... so my question involves how to temporarily plug a bulkhead...

[Kmiec123]

For the drain, at the back or the tank, I use 1" bulkhead with a 1"x1" 90 to barbed fitting. Thin I put a 6" piece of 1" ID plastic tubing that slips into a 1 1/2" or 1 1/4" stand pipe to the drain. Then if I need to remove a tank I just lift it right off. Hope that made sense and answered you question.

[Luis A M]

You can plug the bulkhead with a threaded plug.Not necessary,really,if you dont add water,nothing comes out from the outlet

[geminianspark]

thanks guys this helps...

[janjenny83]

I am just lifting off my bulkhead piping every time I am going to drain. The plumbing I very good and I’ve set it up last month. If you want that to be simple then you just need to make it removable.


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