Water changes!

[T1KARMANN]

Hey guys. How does ur heater handle the cold water thats coming out from the drip?


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To tell the truth I use my drip to control my temp

I have 3 very large pumps 100w of UV which boil the water

With no drip my temp will go above 92 in the summer so I adjust the temp with the water just turn drip up to lower the temp and in the winter lower the temp to raise the temp


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[DIDYSIS]

I am a huge fan of my drip system, I say its far better for the fish and you now you can spend more time just enjoying them and looking at your system and fish vs looking at the water level and making sure you drain and fill. I drip hot and cold water strait into my system and it has been heating my tank for the past 3 months or so with no issues I do not have a singe heater in my system, its super stable and as a back up I have a thermomiter that will notify me if the water is too cold or too hot with an audible beeping. All I do for maintinience on my tank is wash the filter socks. When I can hook up another tank to the system and shut down my other tanks I will be very happy with just enjoying my fish and never spilling a drop of water on the floor while changing water or worying about the fill hose or drain hose.

 

[Tor-Eriik]

hmmmmmm

Hehe, thats why i put

But seriously, you dont do manually 600 gallons a week on only 1 of your tanks(my case).

 

[DavidW]

Hehe, thats why i put

But seriously, you dont do manually 600 gallons a week on only 1 of your tanks(my case).

why not?
I did it every other day on 8000 gallons ( 3 hours)

 

[tonyt]

It takes about 3 hours to fill up a 50 gallon pail with di water. I add prime, then pump the water into the sump and turn on the drain , I walk away; 15 minuets later , I'm done. , I don't need to watch the water change


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[Tor-Eriik]

why not?
I did it every other day on 8000 gallons ( 3 hours)

8000 gallons every other day? I have a hard time understanding that,where did you hold all this water? And where did it come from? Took me 6 houres to fill my 1200 gallon tank, i must have really bad waterline into my house.

Anyways, life happens,wife, kids, house, bla bla bla.. whatever. Drip saved it for my part

 

[Anderman]

Manual changes are "therapy". Keeps me out of the bars which keeps me out of trouble!!

 

[Tor-Eriik]

Manual changes are "therapy". Keeps me out of the bars which keeps me out of trouble!!

I ment to say it, just forgot! I totally agree 100% on the fact that it is therapy! And it makes you feel very good when its done! Its done, the fish have it good, the tank looks good, everything feels good! There is just no time for therapy nowadays here

Great pool btw! didnt mean to sidetrack it

 

[David R]

But even tho i use drip, i do tap crapwater out everyday, and raise the level with the drips again. IMO its not a good idea to just use drip, as you then change mixed water all the time. When you tap out lets say 400 liters on my 4800liter tank, i know that there will be 400 liters of _FRESH_ water every day.

This is something I have always wondered about auto systems that run at a constant trickle of a few litres an hour, are they really enough to dilute all the waste from a heavily stocked tank? How much more water do you need to run with a continuous trickle rather than manual water changes done every few days to achieve sufficient dilution? I'd really like to know how much water (as a percentage of tank volume) you guys running continuous drips use an hour/day/week.

I've thought about a system for my new tank for quite some time, we live out of the city and rely on rain water collected on the roof to supply the house. Over winter it isn't a problem but between December and April it can be quite dry, so I need to get maximum bang-for-buck out of my water changes. I have long pondered where the happy median is somewhere between a continuous trickle and a single weekly water change in terms of getting maximum dilution with out letting the nitrates get too high.