Continuous drip system

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ScubaGuy

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Orginally had this in the Ray section but got no reply. Hoping for better luck here in the DIY :)

Hello All,

Just wondering if anyone can help me out with a few questions on what I need to look out for when using a continuous drip system with my rays/fish.

I have read some of the forums and I know from that reading that if you don't have chloramines in the water than you can directly drip in water as the chlorine will come out in gaseous form (correct so far?)

Here are my questions

  1. I know that the water treatment plant only use gaseous chlorine and not chloramines. So can I drip directly into my tanks with out any affect on my rays/fish?
  2. Is there any amount of "drip" that is too much. i.e. will the chlorine not come out in gaseous form fast enough if I'm putting in to much?
  3. Are there any other chemicals that I should be looking out for when using a drip system.
I'm lucky as I know the plant manager of the water treatment facility for my town so I can find out what is exactly in the water.

I have 2 tanks I want to do this with (a 400 gallon and a 180 gallon tank). Right now I use aged water and I change water twice a week sometimes more depending on water quality due to limited storage for the aged water. I'm a little worried as I am going away this summer for a couple of weeks and I'm not sure if I can get anyone to do the water changes (hence the drip system).

I feed pellets as well as a modified "firemedic" gelatin diet. An auto feeder and someone to drop in cubes of gelatin diet I can get but someone to do the changes and fill barrels for the aged water...

So any help or suggestions on this would be great.

Thanks

 
I've been using a drip system for about 5 years for my 400 gallon multi-tank aquarium system. I have chlorine (no chloramines) in my tap water. Previously I was dripping the water into a large sump and I had no problems. Not to long ago, I removed the sump and starting dripping directly into one of my fish tanks, and that's when some problems started. Some of my fish were getting skin blemishes which I think was caused by the chlorine. So now I've been using a carbon block filter and the problems have stopped. The cost of the carbon block filter initial set-up was about $40 with shipping, and about $13(+shipping) for the replacement cartridges, which will need to replaced every 6 months. The most surprising thing I've learned is how dirty my tap water is. With the filter I got I can see how much sediment it is removing.

This is what I got:
http://www.filtersfast.com/KX-Matrikx-01-250-125-975-Filter.asp
http://www.filtersfast.com/Pentek-158008-Filter-Housing.asp
http://www.filtersfast.com/Pentek-244047-filter-mounting-bracket.asp
http://www.filtersfast.com/Pentek-144880-filter-housing-wrench.asp
 
I would strongly urge you to use a some sort of filtration. If you use a carbon block as suggested above, you should be fine to drip directly into the tank.
 
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