apophis924 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 liter meter III run thru a kalk reactor. Quote Link to comment
Scoot Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 when my tank starts sounding like a waterfall and the noise is annoying i top it off then Quote Link to comment
Reefer Addict Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Tunze Osmolator.. Quote Link to comment
steelhealr Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Talk about cheesey..here is MY auto topoff system. Fill it, walk away. No stuck floatswitches. Hey..it works. LOLOL . SH Quote Link to comment
aaronfmd Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 Some bunny has been stealing from the hospital again! Quote Link to comment
zachtos Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 autotopoff floatswitch turns on an airpump which pressurizes a 2 liter filled with distilled limewater and fills my 4G tank. 1 Quote Link to comment
ReefDiver Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Kalk drip one gallon per week on my 5.5 http://www.reefwebsites.com/agu/kalkdrip/ Quote Link to comment
Izzue Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 (edited) One quart dumped in sump daily.... Izzue Edited April 1, 2006 by Izzue Quote Link to comment
DementedLullaby Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 (edited) I keep a thing of water beside my nano tank and when I need to do a top off I just take some air hosing, put it at the level I want it to go down to and drip it into my tank. I refill the thingy every 2-3 days. I might try DIY'ing an auto-top off system soon for if/when I have to go away. We will see ^__^. Edited May 28, 2006 by DementedLullaby Quote Link to comment
yankeereefer Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 ghetto drip ATO (IV line and 1/2g jug) Quote Link to comment
nicrod Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 i use dual floatswitches from autotopoff.com. connected to a small pump in a 3g resevoir. i add all my supplements to the resevoir and it lasts about 1 week. it tops off once every hour,and i gotta say its made top off so much easeir on me and my inhabitants. cuz honestly i would forget alot and by that time my salinity would have jumped from .25 to .28 in less than a day. now i litteraly have no fluctuation!!! just make sure to clean your floatswitches from time to time. Quote Link to comment
cmgreenone Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 i add spring water/ i used to buy water from the pet shop....very expensive then i started to by water from petco...about 7 bucks for 2 gallons...what a rip then i figured i would start using regular spring water since it doesn't have chlorine. i haven't had any problems and it is soooo easy i go through about 1.5 gallons a week in a 24g aquapod with two additionl fans i can't see a need to buy more equipment..since i am always looking at the fish I am right there to top off Quote Link to comment
nicrod Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 7 bucks for two gallons is a rip!!!!!!! at my LFS its .25per g of ro/di and .75 for ro/sw premix. i make sure to bring my two (5g) jugs when i go. im getting ready to convert my 110g fw over to sw reef. lugging water from the fish store isnt going to cut it anymore , im going to have to get an ro/unit. Quote Link to comment
lil'wrasse cool Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I did the real getto one. Cost me not a thing I had everything I needed to make... I know wow...I will buy a aftermarket cup holder for cars to clip on the tank to try to hide the bottle. I will make the syphion hose into a drain incace of back filling. I have the drip set a 1drip/5secs keeps the tank at the same hight all day, refill every morning and about 3/4 of the bottle is used in 24 hours. Quote Link to comment
nicrod Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 (edited) i used autotopoff.com its 61 bucks w/shipping I love it!!! Edited August 10, 2007 by nicrod Quote Link to comment
kappa Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 (edited) I just ordered the Tunze Osmolator 3155 from Marine depot (good price of $175 shipped). It comes tommorow. I will use a 5 gallon bucket to contain RO water, and finally I will be able to take a week off if I please from topping off. Edited August 15, 2007 by kappa Quote Link to comment
cab_cali Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 I did the real getto one. Cost me not a thing I had everything I needed to make... I know wow...I will buy a aftermarket cup holder for cars to clip on the tank to try to hide the bottle. I will make the syphion hose into a drain incace of back filling. I have the drip set a 1drip/5secs keeps the tank at the same hight all day, refill every morning and about 3/4 of the bottle is used in 24 hours. Hey I like this set-up, can you elaborate a little more? I want to try this out at home on my 20-gallon Quote Link to comment
lil'wrasse cool Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 All you do is drill 2 holes in a cap of a bottle and put one short air line and one air line that will go from the bottle to the tank. Make sure its a good tight fit. On the long one add a air valve so that you can control the drips. Thats the construction of it.... Once you put water in it blow in to the short one to get the water to flow into the long hose. Then set the drip to match you evap rate... You can do the calc. but Id start off with 1 drip evey 2 secs and adjust from there... My evap is about 1 drip every 6-7 secs. Mark a line on you tank or sump to see if the drip rate is to high or to low... Thats all I can think of pm me if you cant get her going... Quote Link to comment
person1000000 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 By hand and imm to broke to get something to auto top of my tank and my evaporations varies all the time so i just add fresh water to make up for that Quote Link to comment
lil fish Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 RO water every other day. Quote Link to comment
CorvetteJoe Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 Every other day, but it usually takes all afternoon/evening to do. 1 - Open gallon of distilled water 2 - Open lid to tank 3 - Pour in water 4 - Test with swing arm 5 - Adjust with more fresh or salt water 6 - Retest with swing arm 7 - Close lid 8 - clean swing arm 9 - toss empty jug in trash 10 - watch wife dig through trash and yell "THIS IS RECYCLABLE!" 11 - say "so?" 12 - Get yelled at some more because she had to dig through trash to pull out recyclable stuff 13 - have to make up something about how sorry I am for making her dig through trash 14 - make fun of recycling since all recycled items cost more than raw material items 15 - Feel bad for making wife dig through trash, so I cook her a nice dinner 16 - But I forget and throw away the tin cans and plastic containers I emptied out of the fridge 17 - get yelled at some more for not washing the empty tin cans from the food I cooked 18 - tell her that I am not wasting water to wash garbage 19 - complain to her about how her FOUR recycle bins take up 1/2 my garage space 20 - Listen to her say "well most of that is because of your distilled water jugs from your fish tank!" 21 - say THATS IT WERE BUYING AN RO/DI MACHINE! j/k its not that bad Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 How do you "top-off" your nano reef? Like this: Here's a clearer view from an experiment to determine if diffusion from salt to fresh water can occur in this setup (it doesn't): I've got more info. on this setup in my 'tank thread': http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=172031 Quote Link to comment
SPS20 Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 I use a Tunze Osmolator. I have yet to find a more reliable ATO, but if there were one, I would upgrade immediately. Quote Link to comment
smokey_the_bear Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Like this: Here's a clearer view from an experiment to determine if diffusion from salt to fresh water can occur in this setup (it doesn't): I've got more info. on this setup in my 'tank thread': http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=172031 please tell me how to set this up i have the exact bottle hahah Quote Link to comment
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