Interesting fish tank

[Zulaab]

http://thecontaminated.com/pipeline-fish-tank/

[fishlady]

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zu that is one cool tank you have found to share with us....very very cool.....thanks for sharing.....

[eklikewhoa]

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Seen that before....think I actually linked it here a while back too....pretty awesome idea!

[J-WS6]

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that'd be a pain in the @$$ to keep clean

[Zulaab]

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I am sure that it breaks a apart to clean.. and you have got to have a few pleco's in there cleaning at all times :)

[eklikewhoa]

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Or a mag-float

[Zulaab]

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Or a mag-float

Right :)

[mrairportjunke]

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how do they keep the water up in there with out it fillin the tanks below?

[CichlidFan]

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the water pressure if constant, will keep it from running out back into the tanks.

CF

Water changes would be interesting to watch ..... :)

[mrairportjunke]

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ok. im dumb when it comes to the laws of physics.  lol. so what do they do to keep pressure in it or out of it¿¿¿

[armthehomeless]

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These helped explain it to me:

"It’s basic physics - the water will only fall if there’s something to take its place. In this case there isn’t - it’s a perfect seal, so no air can get in. You can demonstrate this yourself - just take any glass and dunk it in water until it’s full. Then turn it upside-down, and bring it straight up out of the water. The glass will remain full until the brim comes out of the water, letting air in. Sucking soda through a straw is also this principal at work."


"No laws of physics broken. The water stays in the square pipe the same way five gallons of water stays in the water dispenser. Atmospheric pressure holds it in … as long as there’s no leakage of air into it. Glug glug every time someone takes a drink. They have to make sure the water level doesn’t get below the exit into the tank. Except that I can’t figure out how they got it in there to begin with..."

[mrairportjunke]

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ok. i understnd now. but how do they fill it?¿

[armthehomeless]

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Great question. The only thing I could think of would be to get a plastic tube to suck the air out of the square tube. This would draw the water up the square tube. One would need to refill the aquarium every so often though - to make certain that the water level in the aquarium stayed high enough.

[mrairportjunke]

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yeah cause if you poured water in from top it would over flow tanks right?  
what if they capped off the bottom of each inlet,  filled from top and then took caps off bottom, would water stay then?