RnB Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 sick of mixing by hand...... pies / steve... I know you guys just run lots of kalk in your top up system.... I was thinking of just putting an old powerhead into the evap water and have it come on every 8 hours for a bit to stir it up.... and run the evap makeup topup pump on a timer so its only on at night is this how you guys are doing it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 I know this is how Pies does it, wish I could get a power head into my topup. At the moment I'm try to decide if I should invest in a new topup container with a wide mouth so I can put a pump in or just go the whole hog and use my 60 drum outside and run a longer tube in the window. Using the bigger container would save me having to fill it so much (weekly job at the moment) but its too heavy to move full of water so I would have to carry water to it which would be a pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 I was thinking of just putting an old powerhead into the evap water and have it come on every 8 hours for a bit to stir it up.... and run the evap makeup topup pump on a timer so its only on at night exactly how i do it. 802 powerhead in a BIG drum (220 litres i think?) on timer to run 2 hours prior to dosing for half an hour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RnB Posted May 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 how much kalc do you dump into the drum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 RnB - I dump a cup a month-ish. You can't over kalk the water (it has a saturation point). Just make sure your not taking the water from too close to the bottom of the stirer. Pie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RnB Posted May 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 I was going to tie the top up pump onto some reef rack so its about 1/2 way up the coloum, but run the stirrer pump tied to the rack at the very bottom. cup a month.... guess thats about 30 teaspoons.... how much water is in your topup bin? i understand the saturation thing...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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