that is what i did on my first dripping system too... aged and pump
DIY : 24/7 New Water Drip System
DIY : 24/7 New Water Dipping (Chemical Way)
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DIY : 24/7 New Water Drip System
Me too, since I'm leaning towards doing red turquoise discus in a drip system. I'm wondering if you could feed in RO water and dose RO Right and Prime together?
This seems like a aquarist's wet dream...and not too bad at $200. What do you guys do for the other half of the WC, the draining part - Python, or do you have it hooked up to a dedicated water pipe?
One thing I thought about this... if your diluting prime for this system, why not just use any other doser method? One of the peristaltic pumps on even a $10 Tom Aqualifter? Is it just the extra security that this is less likely to fail compared to a doser?
sorry to dig up an old thread....the prime dilution rate would be 1 to 80? so that would be about 8oz per 5 gallons?
Nope, for Neoprodigy's rig, the prime is diluted 1:80 by you. This mixture then goes through a dosing pump that doses 1:500. This brings the actual dosing rate to 1:40,000
Prime dose is 1ml/10gal. This makes 1L of prime treat 10,000gal of water. 10,000gal of water is ~40,000L.
thats what i meant....1 part prime to 80 parts distilled/ro water for the tank that the dosing pump draws from....which would be 8oz prime for 5 gallons of distilled water.....its beside the point anyway, decided to go with a filter for the chloramines, which i have been assured that as long as my flow is under 6 or 7gph i will be ok
