ctreefer
New member
Hi,
I'm in the middle of figuring out my topoff for a 29 gal mostly sps tank with 10gal sump below. I've decided to stick with kalk since its a small system and will implement the simple "kalk reactor" using a canister filled with kalk and running water through it as I've seen in some other pages.
If you look at the image (sorry, its kinda crude), here's my design thus far:
the idea is that the kalk will always run a constant drip (I'm not sure if the aqualifter is best suited for this, please comment.) In this way I won't be hindered by differences in evaporation if I hooked it up to my auto topoff.
Likewise, my auto topoff will use the same reservoir to keep the tank at a constant level. My hope is to hook it up to a digital timer that will only run 1 minute per day. I'll use a small maxijet and within that one minute I'm hoping will be enough time to get the water needed to shutoff the pump. This way I have a full 24 hour (24hrs minus 1 minute) for the kalk drip to compensate most of my evaporation and whatever it doesn't get the topoff will handle.
By doing this I can better control the amount of kalk entering the system and change be reducing/increasing drip rate.
Does anyone have any thoughts or input?
thanks
I'm in the middle of figuring out my topoff for a 29 gal mostly sps tank with 10gal sump below. I've decided to stick with kalk since its a small system and will implement the simple "kalk reactor" using a canister filled with kalk and running water through it as I've seen in some other pages.
If you look at the image (sorry, its kinda crude), here's my design thus far:
the idea is that the kalk will always run a constant drip (I'm not sure if the aqualifter is best suited for this, please comment.) In this way I won't be hindered by differences in evaporation if I hooked it up to my auto topoff.
Likewise, my auto topoff will use the same reservoir to keep the tank at a constant level. My hope is to hook it up to a digital timer that will only run 1 minute per day. I'll use a small maxijet and within that one minute I'm hoping will be enough time to get the water needed to shutoff the pump. This way I have a full 24 hour (24hrs minus 1 minute) for the kalk drip to compensate most of my evaporation and whatever it doesn't get the topoff will handle.
By doing this I can better control the amount of kalk entering the system and change be reducing/increasing drip rate.
Does anyone have any thoughts or input?
thanks
