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

@sydneysangels

Жыл бұрын

Same here!

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

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+PsychedelicBabe thanks PB!

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

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

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

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

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

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+PseudoAccurate thanks!

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Cichlid Soldier no problem, glad you liked it Frankie

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

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

very cool and convenient system thanx for sharing Steve!!

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Jacob Chrem thanks Jacob

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Floyd Conrad thanks Floyd, glad you enjoyed it

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Mile Hi Freshwater cool, let me know if you have questions

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...

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+jemetta cooper awesome, glad you found it helpful

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..

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Chris Smith / Siklid guy thanks, much appreciated!

Brilliant Steve!

Great video and system. Good job Steve!

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Reggie's H&P Cichlids thanks Reggie

Great vid! Please keep em coming!

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Anxious Aquatics thanks, I will try!

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!_*

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Danny's Aquariums thanks Danny

@DannysAquariums

7 жыл бұрын

+Steve Poland Cichlids your welcome!

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

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+chuck thanks Chuck

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Viknesvaran thanks!

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Alen B great, glad you got something out of it

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! :)

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Bear Necessities awesome! It really works on any number of tanks which was part of the appeal for me

Very detailed video. Thanks for sharing.

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Ruy Vilela thanks!

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.

Really nice setup.

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

Awesome job and great project

Looking good Steve!

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

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Greg Jones thanks!

You have a great Instructional Video voice!

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Christian Postier thanks!

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

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.

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+LVcichlids thanks! The point of this was really to spend more time with the family and not have to downsize. It was just getting to be too much.

@CandBLawnCare

7 жыл бұрын

Steve Poland Cichlids I completely agree. That was my exact purpose as well.

Genius, your videos are excellent

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Greg Saveall thanks Greg!

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

Sweet set up..

Awesome video !

Great video and an awesome project.

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Ivan Kolić thanks!

That's going to help a lot Great video

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Chad Hardesty great to hear, thanks Chad

Great video thanks

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

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Mireya M. Thanks!

top-notch video... kudos!

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Chris Locke thanks!

really nice build

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Reid Smith thanks!

nicely done.

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Corona Ken thanks!

That is a great idea to use a sprinkling system!

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Richard Stock I can't claim it as my original idea but I'm trying to bring it to the masses

Awesome tutorial.

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+jlathem thanks!

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.

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Mbuna Territory thanks Harry! I'm just figuring out all of this plumbing as I go. Glad to hear I didn't screw anything up.

great vid

Congrats on 100k

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!

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Cameraz Eye hit me up if you have questions

@camerazeye7923

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thank you so much.

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+DANIEL VENDITTI thanks!

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.

@StevePolandAquatics

6 жыл бұрын

+MR Oz great, that’s what I did. Let me know if you have questions

@fishroombum3771

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve. I have been watching all of your videos for years. Just one question, how do you initiate the drainage process? Sure it seems pretty straight forward, the water drains via gravity , but how to get that started seems to be missing somewhere? As far as RaiBird systems are concerned I don’t see how they would “initiate s siphon” they are used only for the filling of the tanks and filtering out the impurities in the water as the tanks are filling up. So, is your system a semi-auth fill . I want to try and get this going but I’m stuck on now the actual drainage of the tanks works. Thanks and keep up the great videos, I am looking forward to seeing more. MrOz!

@StevePolandAquatics

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching all this time! The new water just displaced the old water via the overflow in each tank. So there isn’t really anything to initiate on that side. It’s not a 100% efficient water change but the automation makes it worth it.

@fishroombum3771

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for answering so swiftly, looking forward to more of your videos, they're truly a pleasure to watch. Cheers!

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.

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

Like your videos👍🏻

nice:) good work:)

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Rave Science thanks!

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...

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+CJ'S AQUARIUMS thanks CJ. The tanks all have overflows that lead to a drain so the old water just flows out as the new water flows in. Really dig what you've been up to lately btw.

Nice!

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?

you're very clever Steve :>)

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Dave Woodley thanks!

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!

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Stevo Hoppa thank you sir. For the record, if your wife asks, I said no. But the beauty of this is that you could run it anywhere. If you go through the crawl space you may want to insulate the pvc depending on how cold it gets in there.

AQUARIUM CO-OP!!! 👍🏻

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?

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+binklez90 I did this slowly over a few months. If I added everything together it was probably a few hundred dollars.

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

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.

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.

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+wyzemann hey we're all always learning new things

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

@xriscarter4728

7 жыл бұрын

Steve Poland Cichlids Thank you for not only the great video but I love the extra work you put into making the kit list. I feel it is do handy and unique it really sets you apart.

@ryanhern6357

6 жыл бұрын

Great Video! Apologies for chiming in, I would love your initial thoughts. Have you heard about - Proutklarton Protecting Aqua Plan (should be on google have a look)? It is a smashing one off guide for getting prepared for a mega drought minus the normal expense. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my cousin after many years got astronomical success with it.

Nice brothah

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+MASS Aquariums thanks Mike

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Lucas Fletcher I just have a length of irrigation tubing going up through the wall to that tank.

Sick

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.

nice

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+COOPER'S CICHILDS thanks!

Steve. I’m building this system for discus tanks. What fittings did you use to connect the filters together? Trying to see but looks like a fitting that’s threaded on both ends. I want to keep the space between them to a minimum

Nice setup ! I'm currently building a system like this for my fishroom . But I had an issue , my PH is too high for the fish i keep . Did a cartridge exist or something else could resolve this? PH out of the automatic system is 7,6 , want it around 6,8 . Thanks!

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.

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?

Awesome project ! Great info and plumbing knowledge ! Is that what you do for your day job?

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+Evan Dick thanks! No, I have a desk job. I've just been learning the plumbing as I go and trying to share so that others can do the same.

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.

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

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

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

I used to use it too. Give this a read: www.plumbingsupply.com/the-great-pvc-primer-debate.html

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.

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?

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

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.

Sweet video Steve. Do you have float switches in the tanks allowing the water to stop flowing in during the water change?

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+inventoryking no it's all scheduled through the rainbird timer. The old water is overflowing the whole time (unless I've taken some out doing routine maintenance).

I noticed that you refer to the 3rd cartridge as a 5 micron CTO Plus Carbon. The cartridge in your demo was listed as 0.6 microns. Which is correct?

what is your lpm? i have a koi pond, im planning to just remove the chlorine but is the carbon filter u show good for 1 litrepm? my pond 15ton which i have to change 10% of water..

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?

do you add any chemicals ?? or you just regular tap water even tho your fish need ph of like 8.2??? how do you adjust for that or do you ???

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

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?

@StevePolandAquatics

7 жыл бұрын

The brass goes to pex and then the pex goes over to the water change system. The tanks don't drain automatically, they just overflow. It does dump some new mixed with old but it's very low maintenance compared to trying to drain water first.

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