I just finished setting up a continuous drip system on my 240g cichlid tank. I saw a video on you tube on this and pretty much copied it. I bought a 3 stage carbon block filter with 1 micron sediment filter and ran it from the tap. I have a 25gpd water regulator after the discharge of the filter. I bought all this from thefishguyz. They were really helpful. I as bought varous drip emitters that will alow be to further reduce the flow if i want to.
I have wastepipe right next to the tank so I just drilled a hole for a blkhead and hard plumbed it right to the waste pipe from the sump. My municipal water only adds some chlorine so I a ok there.
Question is related to salt replenishment and prime via dosing. I am planning to set up a simple peralstaltic pum to a 5 gallon bucket to use to dose prime(for any other bad stuff the filter would miss) ad cichlid salt. Problem is I really do not know how to calculate because I am simply not changing 24gpd. I am diluting the tank water by 24gpd.
I have a lot of room for error with the prime, but not so much with the cichlid salt.
I was wonderig if anyone else has considered this and what they did about it?
thanks