I am moving to a new house in November, and since I will own this house instead of renting I want to finally set up an auto-drip system. I have done some research, so I know the basics of it. My sump has a hole drilled near the bottom on both sides, one on the side with the chamber of bioballs and one on the open side of the sump. I am planning to put PVC going upwards in the open part of sump from the hole to drain and keep it at the level I want it to, think it's a 1 inch hole thats plugged right now, maybe smaller, I will use 1 inch PVC piping I think. That part is easy enough.
The tank is on a split level, it's in the walkout basement portion but right near the stairs that go upwards to my kitchen, so I am probably going to tap the water right near the sink, keep the carbon filter or whatever you guys recommend right under the sink and run the line parallel along the wall down into my sump on the lower level. Tank is a 7x4x2, 400 gal, with a 90 gal sump. 2 Mag 1800's and a 3600 GPH pump, 65 watt UV. Stock is 3 leo rays, plan to add a pbass im growing out but thats it. I live in London Ontario, PH out of tap is around 7.8 I believe, nitrates can get high in winter, but in general water quality is good and I heard that many people don't even use prime because the chlorine and chloramine is so low (though I do wonder what the flouride in our water does to our fish).
What I need advice on:
Can anyone recommend particular filter to run the water through?
How many GPH drip would you recommend for my system? Or G per day or whatever.
Any particular controllers/timers that are recommended and easy to set up?
Anything else I should know before starting this project, in terms of tapping the water, filter maintenance, effective ways of calculating the drip, etc?
I guess what I am mainly looking for is the names (or Home Depot links) to particular products you guys have had success with, and a small description of how you run your setup.
Appreciated as always.
The tank is on a split level, it's in the walkout basement portion but right near the stairs that go upwards to my kitchen, so I am probably going to tap the water right near the sink, keep the carbon filter or whatever you guys recommend right under the sink and run the line parallel along the wall down into my sump on the lower level. Tank is a 7x4x2, 400 gal, with a 90 gal sump. 2 Mag 1800's and a 3600 GPH pump, 65 watt UV. Stock is 3 leo rays, plan to add a pbass im growing out but thats it. I live in London Ontario, PH out of tap is around 7.8 I believe, nitrates can get high in winter, but in general water quality is good and I heard that many people don't even use prime because the chlorine and chloramine is so low (though I do wonder what the flouride in our water does to our fish).
What I need advice on:
Can anyone recommend particular filter to run the water through?
How many GPH drip would you recommend for my system? Or G per day or whatever.
Any particular controllers/timers that are recommended and easy to set up?
Anything else I should know before starting this project, in terms of tapping the water, filter maintenance, effective ways of calculating the drip, etc?
I guess what I am mainly looking for is the names (or Home Depot links) to particular products you guys have had success with, and a small description of how you run your setup.
Appreciated as always.
