ZAF Plus Tubing
The tubing is essential in ZAF+, like in ZAF, but act with a different function. While in ZAF the water splitter panel is essential to distribute homogeneously to all the tanks the food mix (in one food preparation session the pump brings the food to multiple tank using the tubing splitters), in ZAF+ the totality of the food liquid mix is distributed to one tank, to specifically control the food quantity during each feeding sessions. Between the pump and each tanks there is a valve and we used manifold devices to connect one pump to multiple valves. Therefore the food is distributed to one tank by opening the valve downstream of the pump and upstream this tank.
The outside diameter of the pump tubing (3/8" from McMaster 5233k65) and the valves tubing (1/4" McMaster, 5233K52) is different so we used some push to connect straight reducer (McMaster, 5779K355). In the ZAF+ described here we used 3 manifolds (McMaster, 52045K216), to circulate the water to up to 30 tanks using only one distributing pump. The first Manifolds are connected using t-shape push to connect adaptor (McMaster, 51055K27) and the last one with a right angle push to connect adapter (McMaster, 51055K195).
The following schematic diagram represents the tubing connections between the different ZAF components (pumps, valves, food preparation containers, fish tanks...)
