Setting up the Drip

[qguy]

if you have a 400g tank. and your changing say 70 gallons a week, do you set up your system to replace 10 gallons a day to have the same amount of water change as you had before the drip system was implemented ?

 

[mudbuttjones]

If I recall, smaller frequent water changes are less effective at diluting waste than less frequent larger water changes.

I'd assume the same applies to a drip?

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[Chaz88]

do you set up your system to replace 10 gallons a day to have the same amount of water change as you had before the drip system was implemented ?

I think it would be a good place to start. Then monitor water conditions and adjust the drip tell you consistently have the conditions you want.

 

[rodger]

For a 400 gallon tank I would drip 200 gallons a week to start with. Use nitrates to determine what your actual rate needs to be. I change 50% several times a week on my 240 to keep the nitrates under 40PPM.

 

[dmopar74]

I have always had to drip between 25-50 gpd to keep nitrates low on a 180. Start at 50gpd and go from there..

 

[appak]

I'm actually in the planning phases of setting up a drip system, and found a calculator thing. Testing is key but at least it will help you figure out the volume of actual change.

http://www.angelfish.net/DripSystemcalc.php

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