I finally have time to do an automatic water change addition, I plan on buying a 200 gallon container to age water. Don’t have the name but I see a dosing machine that the saltwater people use. What’s a good plan? 2 water changes a week spread out over like 6 hours? I see some people do continuous drip but that would stress me as I would have to do plumbing just curious how people do it, of course I would add a third if the nitrates were to increase or something.
Automatic water changes for 360 gallon
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Just curious why you want to age water, is it because?
Your water is treated with free chlorine?
This is a viable way to dechlorinate.
is it, because your tap water is treated with chloramine?
Chloraminne treated water sometimes takes weeks to dechloraminate by aging.
So aging is not really a reliable way to dechloraminate.
or is it to add other chemicals or mineral salts gradually, as in pH or hardness alteration?
Your water is treated with free chlorine?
This is a viable way to dechlorinate.
is it, because your tap water is treated with chloramine?
Chloraminne treated water sometimes takes weeks to dechloraminate by aging.
So aging is not really a reliable way to dechloraminate.
or is it to add other chemicals or mineral salts gradually, as in pH or hardness alteration?
Thanks for reply, I have issue only with wild caught fish before where water changes more than 40 percent sometimes they die even dechlorinating and matching temperature to the 1 degree. I usually don’t age just fill 22 77 gallon Home Depot totes with water put prime, and pump water in takes like 1 hour or so. This was more to become more automated, they devices I saw you can schedule them whenever you want they take water out and pump back in saving me time, if it works I can do this to all my tanks