jcardona1's Super-easy DIY 24/7 water changer!
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if you can somehow fit a control valve from the air line hoses for your fish tanks .. you could use that as your water valve instead. i know they fit onto the water lines because i use them as air line hoses since they are way cheaper since i am running air to about 20 tanks. . .
another thought ... for you guys who doesn't have drilled tanks ... get some PVC and make a U-tube and overflow the water out .... i did that for my tanks incase they overflow ... in this case the tanks will always overflow, so the excess water will just go to the overflow ... all you really need to do is hook the overflow to the drain/etc
another thought ... for you guys who doesn't have drilled tanks ... get some PVC and make a U-tube and overflow the water out .... i did that for my tanks incase they overflow ... in this case the tanks will always overflow, so the excess water will just go to the overflow ... all you really need to do is hook the overflow to the drain/etc
nice man. my washer is near my fish room. i might have to figure out how to do this on my gar tank
jcardona1;3828511; said:
I'm interested in this and was wondering if you would trust the 20K filters for the entire life of the filter. I think I saw one of these at Home Depot/Lowes and it said they can last for 5 years. I just can't imagine a filter that could perform that long while removing chlorine effectively.
yeah its a little hard to believe, but i would trust thefilterguys with what they sell. thats also why i bought the chlorine/chloramine test kit. it comes with 20 test kits for $15 and takes a few minutes to test. just test the water coming out of the filter every 2-3 months and youll be goodbrianhellno;3830492;3830492 said:
you see Pharaoh said he's had his running for a very long time with no sign of chlorine/chloramines
Glad to hear it's working well. I gathered all the pieces during your last thread , I guess I really need to make time for this.
Any issues with running hose instead of hard plumbing. When I mentioned this idea to my buddy he said I'd better use hard plumbing because the water pressure would brake the soft plumbing.
I'm hoping I can ultimately hook my waste water line up to my yard drip line - that'd beat running the drip for 30 minutes a day to water the plants.
I'm hoping I can ultimately hook my waste water line up to my yard drip line - that'd beat running the drip for 30 minutes a day to water the plants.
i think hard plumbing is overkill on household water pressure, unless youre running a couple hundred psi! my pressure was about 65psi. the emitters have an effective range of 10-60psi, so i just close the valve down a bit.SpeshulEd;3831859;3831859 said:
a bit of an update...when i got home today i noticed the emitters werent flowing what they were yesterday, so i figured they must have clogged with some sediment or debris coming out of the chloramine filter.
so i installed an inline Y filter used for drip irrigation systems. its made to keep sediment from clogging your drippers. best of all, it can be taken apart and cleaned. all for $10
so i installed an inline Y filter used for drip irrigation systems. its made to keep sediment from clogging your drippers. best of all, it can be taken apart and cleaned. all for $10
