Another great thing about my basement is the floor is concrete with a space all around the edge for water to drain into the ground. I dont even have to take it outside. Now I just need to find out how crappy my town water is to decide on filtration.
Continuous drip system for fresh water tanks.
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Another great thing about my basement is the floor is concrete with a space all around the edge for water to drain into the ground. I dont even have to take it outside. Now I just need to find out how crappy my town water is to decide on filtration.
Filter guys.com can help you out if you have major water concerns. Easy setup there too.
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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
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
Not sure about the salt thing? It sounds like your keeping your fresh water fish with a little salt in the tank? Anyway as far as filtering the new water: I have had my tanks on a drip system now for 7 years. No filtration at all, I'm just using tap water. All of my fish are at least 5 years old and I have a few that are 7 years. The fish don’t seem to mind the unfiltered tap water. I couldn't be happier with my set up.
Couple questions, if I currently do 50-60% weekly on my 55 and 125 gal, which is 108 gals a week...so to achieve the same results, I need to drop 0.00246 gal/min? (About 3.548 gal/day)
how much would my water bill go up?
how much would my water bill go up?
Only thing I'm wondering, unless pulling 50% out at a time, the drip system dropping at the same rate spread out over the month vs 4 times a month may not yield the same water change benefits
