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Setting up chift pist system, need photo or description of holes set up at the bottom of pipe cheers mizzie

Hope this helps this is 50 mil changing atm to 90 For better flow Pictures soon

this is one of my favourite threads

http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/vie ... 70&start=0

page 4 has a pic of Joels pipe thingy with crenalations on the bottom

Hi Mizzie:
I started with crenellations on the bottom of my pipe, but I've had several fish get long gashes in their sides I think from the crenellations and temperature shock or aggression from other fish. During a couple temperature shocks several fish would just float around paralyzed and end up at the drain pipe, then revive but cut themselves on the notches in the drain pipe. Normally the fish wouldn't end up stuck like that. However my pipe didn't reach the bottom of the tank fully, there was about a 1 or 2cm gap between the end of the pipe and the tank bottom.

Anyway to avoid sharp edges I redid the bottom of the drain pipe by cutting the crenallations off the drain pipe, cutting slits in a short section of smaller diameter pipe using my miter saw, and dropped that section of pipe down the drain pipe. It slid down to the tank bottom and will also adjust if the drain pipe gets nudged by the fish as it sometimes does.

I drilled a few holes then covered these and the bottom of the pipe with a plastic mesh. Works well to extract the solids.

f&f is harrassing me to go chift pist, but i cant bear to put a hole in the side of my beautiful tank that came all the way from WA! i have no doubt on the systems merits

I know where we can get some redfin but iam not telling you till you do

ROFL. That didn't take long, now did it

yOU ASK MIZZIE HIS SYSTEM IS ROCKETING ALONG

If you want to get risky you could do a no-holes overflow and still have CHIFT PIST.

DD dont put risky ideas in his head he will want to try it

Steve + Risk = Trouble, just ask his lawnmower

pls could someone direct me to exactly what a chift pist system is and how it works

chuck chift pist into the search