Drip System - Tie Into Cold Supply Or Use Mixing / Tempering Valve?

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I drip for only 1 hour per day with cold water straight out of a heavy metal axe (cold water in uk)

People do not seem to be discussing how they dechlorinate? The hma does this and removes chloramine.

I really do not like the idea of taking a hot water drip without many fail safes and a good thermostat as many variables can change and you could easily cook the fish.

I also do not like all of the metal work in a hot water system before it gets to the tank.

The reason I mention the dechlorinator is that many people in USA do not have chlorine in the water but someone in the uk could copy the idea and kill their fish due to no dechlor.
 
I drip about 10GPH into my system. I use cold water, but I run it through a heat exchanger. This way I preheat the water using the wastewater. There isn't a more efficient way to change large amounts of water, as I see it.
 
i drip 24 hours a day... i dont turn it off for vacation or anything... it is a risk because i am ran through my attic too. BUt it is nice to always have the clean supply running through the tank. Plus with my equipment i need the cool water(well) dripping to keep my temperature down.

The only way i will have a leak is if the line burst in the attic or if one of the bulkheads get stopped up that drains the tank...
 
I drip 24 hours a day also. The overflow dirty water I run to my trees and bushes, they are very green and I was going to water them anyway so I figure no additional cost to put the water through the tanks first. I don't treat for chlorine or anything else I just use straight cold tap water from copper pipe. 2 years now on my 450 and a little over a year on my 360 and no issues.
 
cjfrontlovr said:
i recently purchased a hass computer controlled mixing valve that has a hot/cold input with a single output at the temperature you select on the dial..(82 degrees in my case) and i am very happy with it.i was lucky enough to run across one on ebay and got it for a couple hundred bucks or less.in my case, i set the temp at 82 degrees and turn on both hot and cold full blast and water comes out at the desired temperature as fast or slow as you apply the water.i run mine for half hour a day through a carbon whole house filter directly in to the tank.in my sump theres a 2"bulkhead set at the prefered elevation for sump water level so that as the tank fills and the sump begins to fill,the water will automaticly drain into the house sewer system.(through the 2" bulkhead and backflow preventer of course)..
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i don't know that i would classify "half hour a day" as a drip system. that's more like a water change.

if this is the only source of heat for your tank, don't you have temp swings? i would be shocked if your tank is holding it's heat for the other 23.5 hours a day. what is your temp just before you do a water change?
 
you are coerrect.i dont use mine as a drip system. i should not have reply'd to this thread. enough said. i use my system as a lazymans water changer and as to refill after draining.

i had my overflow plug on my sump where it connects to the sewer/drain pipe of the house and overflow the sump so i stopped using mine as a drip.
 
cjfrontlovr said:
you are coerrect.i dont use mine as a drip system. i should not have reply'd to this thread. enough said. i use my system as a lazymans water changer and as to refill after draining.

i had my overflow plug on my sump where it connects to the sewer/drain pipe of the house and overflow the sump so i stopped using mine as a drip.
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i have always worried about that and heard horror stories, but i over flowed a lot when i use to do manual waterchanges, ooops i forgot the water was running.
 
keepinfish said:
http://www.angelfish.net/DripSystemcalc.php


here is a good website to tell you how much a water change you are actually doing using a drip
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I've seen this before and never understood it? Who really cares how much water is actually being changed? What matters is water quality. I check my fish tank water about once a month. Summer time I need to increase water flow a bit for my tank to maintain. Winter, because my tanks run a bit cooler and I feed less, I throttle back a bit on my trickle.
My recommendation is to start a new tank with about one gallon an hour trickle and test twice a week. Make small adjustments to the water flow until your tests come out to the lowest levels. When you’re getting consistent test results move out to once a week testing then every other week and so on.
 
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