fish room drip

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SandNukka15 said:
Do you drip warm water since your tanks are in the basement and to help keep electric costs down on the heaters since ur dripping so much?
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Nope, i drip straight cold tap water year round. Ive been debating warm water drip in the winter tho for ur same reasoning. The basement is the most temp controlled room in my home and stays very warm in the cold months. I actually have a harder time in the summer months when the AC is on and basement is cold. I dont run anything crazy for heat, all tanks have fully covered lids and i also only run a couple 300W heaters for 200-500 gal tanks. I run the majority of my tanks completly unheated and keep my ray tanks at only 74°-76°. 78° is my maxium cutoff, i deem anything warmer unnecessary for my needs. Coldest anything runs over here is 68°-70°. my unheated tanks hold big cats and other fish 24-30" range and they do just fine. IMO colder water stays cleaner and holds more oxygen, If it wernt for rays id keep all my specimen around 70-72°
 
i really want to do a auto drip system for my 5 tanks. I want to ask couple questions to see if you guys can help me out. My plan is to havean RO Filter in place. When the water comes out of the RO system, can I use multiple Tees splits to have them split to 5 different tanks at same time? Each tank will have its own line and drip emitters

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I run my 3/4'' water line directly into a Full house RO system system. Then buy like a 4 way garden house splitter. Each splitter will have a 20PSI regulator with a 3/4" Hose Thread Swivel x 1/4" Barbed Adapter connected to it. Run airline hose to each tank with its own drip emitters
 
I don't think complete RO water is good, you have to mix it
 
Just gonna go ahead and tag S sklansky so he can learn a thing or 2 from you folks.
 
Hendre said:
I don't think complete RO water is good, you have to mix it
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I agree. Straight RO water has no buffering capacity and will easily cause a ph crash. It also has no minerals, which fish need in order to remain healthy. You would somehow need to simultaneously dose your water with a remineralization substance made for RO water. This will also add buffering capacity to the water to keep the ph in line.
 
Great stuff Wednesday! I'm currently dripping about 60 gpd into a 540 and 25 gpd into a 340. I have a rack of smaller stuff for qt and grow outs (10-40 gallons). Just like you my life would be so much better dripping into them. What would you do to drip into a 10 gallon tank? I'm thinking something like 2 gpd would be more than enough. Do you know of an emitter that would do this?
 
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I was thinking maybe a timer can drip only during certain hours of day at a higher gph rate. Would that be more effective than constant drip?
 
So far i got almost all my parts ready. All for 6 tanks. I went ahead and purchase
1) the filter guys ro filter rated at 180gpd.
2) 1/4" drip hose and misc Tee fittings and ball valves
3) drip emitters
 
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Arowana718 said:
So far i got almost all my parts ready. All for 6 tanks. I went ahead and purchase
1) the filter guys ro filter rated at 180gpd.
2) 1/4" drip hose and misc Tee fittings and ball valves
3) drip emitters
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Excellent. Let us know how it goes. Where did you buy the equipment? What ball valves did you go with?
 
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