Constant Water Drip System

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Jack Dempsey
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I recently purchased my new tank (120) and am in the process of brainstorming how I want the system to work. I plan on using a constant water drip system. I love in southeast Louisiana and my municipality uses chloramine for water treatment. My idea was to purchase a 3 stage chloramine filter from filter guys at 40 gpd and reduce it down with a valve to about 20 gpd. For redundancy I was going to also dose either seachem prime or seachem safe to treat the tank each day. I haven't tested to see how much chloramine is in my tap water or how much is removed from the 3 stage setup.

I guess my question really is, is it safe to have a constant dosing of prime/safe?

Also, can a solution of seachem safe my made in a gallon container to be used a reservoir? I'm not sure how quickly it needs to be used to keep it in solution.

Thanks,
 
My .02. I would definitely do the controlled test to determine how much chloramine is removed from the filtration - just good to know since it's a new system. If you plan to dose with Prime directly to the tank, the instructions say you need to dose at the full volume of your tank - 120gallons. This is compared to the ~15% (20gallons) of water if you treated the water before adding to the tank.

Although I've not personally dose everyday, my opinion is it shouldn't hurt doing it daily in your situation - if you really wanted that redundancy. There are others with drips systems on here that I'm sure will chime in to share their hands on experiences with this....
 
Since chloramines break down slowly, by themselves in tank water, one option is to just drip straight to the tank. If slow enough, it should be ok.

Another option is to let the water flow to a shallow tank first, so it can aerate, then overflow by dripping to the main tank. This gives more time for ammonia to off-gas. You could also dose this shallow tank with prime, or vitamin C (which breaks chloramines into chlorine+ammonia).
 
I'd have to agree with Santa.
At 20 gallon per day, or .83 gallons an hour.
Unless it's extremely high I wouldn't concern my self with it. It evaporates pretty quickly.
The constant daily dosing may do more harm then anything else.
 
Thanks for the replies.

I plan on getting the tank setup without inhabitants for a lil while and get everything running smoothly. I'll test the levels as i go and see what the results are.
 
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