Fairly new to fish keeping, while browsing around for way to connect to seperate tanks I found information on water bridges.

My understanding of this is that the water bridge acts as a regulator or even a low flow siphon keeping the 2 tanks at similar water levels. With the use of a pump transfering water directly from one tank to the other water will flow through the water bridge get pumped back to the first tank and so on.

Has anyone here tried this? I have 3 10 gallon tanks that I was thinking of possibly attempting to set up like this giving each tank it's own environment (tank 1: rocks, lightly planted, tank 2: rocks, drift wood, medium-heavy planted, tank 3: driftwood, lightly planted).

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I just posted on your introduction post, check out the link I added to it.

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J-Pond
http://j-pond.myminicity.com/

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Now that is awesome, and exactly what I was thinking except it would be three one caty cornered between the two side tanks so it's like a panoramic aquarium.

Thanks for the link J-Pond!

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could you post a link to this website, or the place you got the idea?

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Sure, here is the link:
Ambitious 2 tank system with fish bridge and foam rock aquascape
It is from "The Planted Tank Forum", I saved the address to go back and catch any updates.

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J-Pond
http://j-pond.myminicity.com/

please click on the egg/baby to help it grow:

My idea came from haveing 2 empty 10 gallon tanks which I thought to maybe just drill holes in and silicone pipes to for water tight seal. After doing some searches on the internet, I found the water bridge at the following site.

Bio-Elite Aquarium Water-Bridge

Further searching I discovered that the bridge works like a siphon maintaining equal water levels in each aquarium, and by hooking a pump in one aquarium and pumping the water back to the first aquarium you'd crate current through the the water bridge.

So now my thought is can you chain link 3 aquariums with water bridges and create a water flow circle by pumping the water from Tank #3 to Tank #1. Iif this is possible then you can have 3 aquariums decorated differently for the enjoyment of you and your fish.

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I don't see why it wouldn't work, as long as you have a big enough pump.

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J-Pond
http://j-pond.myminicity.com/

please click on the egg/baby to help it grow:

My thought is the bigger the pump the greater the current so that is all up to you, or say you like keeping rivers fish. It's possible to use this like a neat river system. since the tanks will level out automaticly limited to no worry of an over flow.

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Ok so I used a 4 gallon bucket and a 10 gallon tank to prove the water bridge/siphon. Set up a power head in the tank with a hose to the bucket and pumped water from one to the other and never over flowed. however the bucket was gradualy filling which i think we due the water bridge being to small for the ammount of water being pumped.

With that said soon as I cut power to the pump the tanks leveled out just fine.

Complete Test Setup


Here you can see the water flowing into the bucket from the powerhead.


Hard to see in the picture but there were little bubbles coming out of the end of the PVC pipe.


10G tank and 4G bucket, connected via half inch PVC and a powerhead.


PVC was dunked in the tank to fill it with water, holding both ends flip it over and stick one leg in the bucket and one in the tank. Doing this creates the watter bridge which also works to maintain = water levels in both containers.


The power head pumped the water from the tank to the bucket allowing for current to be created through the water bridge.

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Ok the embeded video works it's crappy but here you go.

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Last update for tonight. I doubled the through put of the water bridge by adding a second bridge (1/2 inch PVC) just like th first one (1/2 inch PVC) and the water seems to be staying a consistant level.

Looking at the water movement it's very minimal, but can clearly see that the water does have "some" circulation.

More to come.

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Got the test bridge with clear tube up and running, you can see the bubble that got trapped.

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I'm really interested in how this works out for you

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My 30 gallon planted freshwater - CONSTANTLY CHANGING

Thanks Auto! This is it for tonight though, going to piss off my roommate by leaving the living room a wreck till this is complete. But almost there, wont be long before I silicone the tubes and starting rtying to set this all up.

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Ok so I have both tanks filled with water and the water bridge holding it's own. Anyone have any suggestion for some quick decor and substrate? I have plenty of guppies to put in there but they don't seem to bright so they probably wont find/use the tunnel.

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OK I sealed up the water bridge with silicone and added water conditioner, 2 different decorations. This is not how it will be setup by any means just a preview I guess.



Was hard to se so put some paper towels up and backgrounds for the tanks.

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Little collage of photos from this starting build. Yeah moved a little fast but can't help myself.

Water Bridge + Guppies video by mec102778 - Photobucket

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looking good...its hard to resist moving fast when starting a new aquarium project...post pictures of any updates

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10g round tank; 1 orange crayfish, 12+ guppies

1/2g tank; 1 betta

http://www.youtube.com/user/corE3105

do the guppies have any trouble swimming against the current in the tube to the other side?

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My 30 gallon planted freshwater - CONSTANTLY CHANGING

So far they have not made it back to the other tank with the rest of the guppies. The flow in the tube is so slight that they were treading water with the little side fins. I think I need to put a 45 degree angles on the tubes going down cause from what i've seen they have issues going up. So putting the 45 or even a 90 angle on the ed would make it more like a cave to explore.

What do you think?

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