Water Transportation Ideas

[KingTriton1]

So it looks like Ive developed a tear in one of my muscle and can no longer transport my water via buckets. Anyone with an idea on how to transfer my ro/di water from my garage to my fish rooms water changing container? The room is about 30 ft away so not to far. Thx

 

[dbl]

Pump and a hose with a ball valve attached to the end. This is assuming you're storing you RO/DI water in some type of a container you can get a pump inside.

 

[Arthur1]

King, it really depends on if you want to make it more of a permanent thing or not. I used to use a mag drive 18 to pump water through 50' of "python" tubing with no issues. You can use a smaller pump but that's what I had on hand! There are many routes that you can go with this one.

 

[KingTriton1]

I was thinking about running 1/4'' tubing through the attic off of a peristaltic pump, but didn't know if this would be ideal or not. I would like for it to be stationary.

 

[zachfishman]

I was thinking about running 1/4'' tubing through the attic off of a peristaltic pump, but didn't know if this would be ideal or not. I would like for it to be stationary.

Why not plumb the RODI straight into this line and fill it remotely?

 

[KingTriton1]

I like where your going with this. My ro/di runs from my laundry room leading to the garage ro/di container. So your thinking that I could possibly put a split into my output line so that the water is delivered to both my fishroom and garage containers. Correct? Good observation.

 

[40gal]

Do you need the water in your garage? Seems like it will all end up in the fish room at some point. Why not eliminate the garage completely from the equation?

 

[KingTriton1]

Well I like having majority of the water in the garage for preserving as much space as possible in the fishroom.

 

[zachfishman]

I like where your going with this. My ro/di runs from my laundry room leading to the garage ro/di container. So your thinking that I could possibly put a split into my output line so that the water is delivered to both my fishroom and garage containers. Correct? Good observation.

Yep. With simple push-fit ball valves on each end to guarantee you don't deliver water where you don't want it.

 

[40gal]

Well I like having majority of the water in the garage for preserving as much space as possible in the fishroom.

Understandable.

Yep. With simple push-fit ball valves on each end to guarantee you don't deliver water where you don't want it.

This is what I would recommend as well.

My current tank's ATO tank is in the stand. I'm trying to clean that up to get a bigger sump, so I'm remote-ing that to the garage. I'm only going through a wall, so it's not quite the same but I feel your pain anyway.

I recently decided to go the continuous water change route, which may not be your thing, but another option while you're at it. My goal is to automate as much as possible while stabilizing the tank parameters.

 

[seaguy7]

I use one of these:

Works great if you don't have any steps.

 

[figuerres]

you can also get a kind of flat dolly at home depot that is rated for 500 pounds and is not hard to pull or push.
I have put 18 gallon and the 45 gallon on them and moved them around my home easy.

 

[Rybren]

These little Shurflo 2088 pumps work great. They have a built-in pressure switch, are NSF certified, and can pump water a long ways. If you have a valve at the tank end of the line, the pump will automatically turn off when you close it and will automatically turn on when you open it.

 

[KingTriton1]

That looks likes a good solution as well. 3.5gal per minute is perfect.

 

[KingTriton1]

I recently decided to go the continuous water change route, which may not be your thing, but another option while you're at it. My goal is to automate as much as possible while stabilizing the tank parameters.

Nice alternative. Going to have to look into this. I'm assuming a doser is importing/exporting the water change. Correct?

 

[40gal]

Yes, the doser/pump would pump new saltwater in and old saltwater out at the same time in equal quantities. I went with a Stenner dual head pump. Using two separate pumps is harder to make work because there is a greater chance for error between the pumps.

The stenner dual head and masterflex pumps both accept multiple pumps on the same motor, so the variation between the pumps is much less. I just got my pump yesterday and am excited to get it all setup.

With the auto/continuous water change setup, you don't need to heat your new saltwater because it is added in such a small quantity. There is some loss of new saltwater with the removed saltwater since they are being added/removed at the same time, but Dr. Randy Holmes-Farley did an article that shows it's really not that much, but it does stabilize your tank's parameters.

There are also a couple other systems that are more "turnkey" like the spectrapure litermeter and reef genesis renew.

 

[KingTriton1]

Pretty neat. Let me know how you end up liking it.