Auto Water Change and Temperature

[Tamw1se]

For those of you that have your water stations in the garage and do auto water changes do you have issues with the water temperature? Do you utilize a chiller to maintain the temperature in the tank or is the volume changes small enough that there is minimal impact to the tank temperature?


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[TalloneJosh]

Depends how you have your auto water change system setup. If you are using a apex dosing system or litermeter, it can be setup so that it does small increments throughout the day, and the temperature has little to no impact. I have an apex DOS system doing my automatic water changes and it does about 4 gallons per day, and I see no affect on temperature.

 

[Tamw1se]

I have a litermeter 3 that I'm thinking about using. I would be doing about 3.5 gallons a day.


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[anbosu]

I'm assuming you would be doing the water changes on your 265. If that's the case, you're changing out about 1% of your volume every day - temperature doesn't really matter, even if you do it all at once.

 

[anbosu]

I do somewhat infrequent 50 gallon water changes on my 90, and even then I have no issues with water temperature coming from the garage.

 

[rogergolf66]

I have a litermeter 3 that I'm thinking about using. I would be doing about 3.5 gallons a day.


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The liter meter divides out that 3.5 gallon per day water change into 150 small water changes. U will have no issues with temp caused from the water change water being in the garage.