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I breezed through the specs, but read the rebuttal to the study I read this morning. (It is linked in the website) Lots of the information is beyond my comprehension due to terms I don't know. I really hope you are right! I am going to be hooking my drip up soon and will be flowing about 40GPH which is approaching the limit of what your meter will read. I am planning on paying it, but sure won't argue if it slips by. I would be interested in hearing what other peoples experience is with dripping is and what GPH they are doing as well as any water bill increase seen.
 
Im surprised no one has figured this out before now, if they did they must have been holding out on us! I was worried I wouldnt be able to keep my water quality up to par with my Wels as it grew but now Im thinking about getting a school of them!!!

...jk
 
Its just a reservoir that comes standard with RO systems. You don't need it for an aquarium drip system.

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I added my version of a "heat exchanger", its simple, cheap and effective.

The water from my sump overflows into a 3 gallon jug which then overflows into my sinks drain. The cold fresh water is filtered then flows through 100ft of water line that is submerged in the warm waste water therefore getting heated before making it to my tank.

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raideranch said:
I added my version of a "heat exchanger", its simple, cheap and effective.

The water from my sump overflows into a 3 gallon jug which then overflows into my sinks drain. The cold fresh water is filtered then flows through 100ft of water line that is submerged in the warm waste water therefore getting heated before making it to my tank.

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Excellent idea!
 
Thanks, Im really happy with this setup. Ive purposely been overfeeding and my water parameters are still perfect. Sure makes it easy.
 
Bookmarked! This is something I'm going to look into more as well, I'd like to get a drip system going this year. I could definitely see this being possible with some water meters, we were told we will be getting new meters this year, but it looks like they are just putting radio readers on the old ones now, it's a mess. Our meters read by dial however, so I do believe that even if the meter looks like it's not moving, it is moving, ever so small.

They only read the hundred gallon reading on our meter too, so if you use 1345 gallons in a month, you're billed 1.3T. The first 2T are automatically billed too, whether you use them or not.
 
Cool, the best way to tell for sure is to check the meter before you leave or something and after several hours check it again. Mine is billed to the nearest thousandth gallon but the dial shows down to a tenth of a gallon. After several hours my sump noticeably has more in it but the dial hasn't moved from the same tenth of a gallon. Plus the specs show that the extended low flow range goes down to 3/4 a gallon per minute.

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