Abstract: An aquatic housing system that has a frame that defines two or more housing levels. Each housing level has a plurality of tanks for housing aquatic animals. Each tank has a front mounted plumbing assembly that allows both water overflow and drainage to be conveyed away from the tank. A valve located in the drainage connection allows the tanks to be flushed or converted from a deep water animal to a shallow water animal without removing the tank from the frame.
Abstract: An aquatic housing system having a rack that supports at least two housing levels. Each level includes a tank frame from which the tanks are held in suspended relation in back to back rows. A tank lid covers at least two fish tanks. A water manifold has separate valves for separate ones of the fish tanks so that water flow can be separately controlled for each fish tank. A drip tray is situated beneath each row to collect water spills from the fish tanks. The trays are part of a drainage assembly in which the drain holes of each tray are connected to a down spout arrangement that flows water downwardly via drain holes disposed in the tray of each level. Capability to hold different sized tanks and use tank dividers is also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 1, 1998
Date of Patent:
October 3, 2000
Assignee:
Pharmacal Research Laboratories, Inc.
Inventors:
Kristen Alyssa Gundersen, William Marc Fleischer