How much water do you lose each day due to evaporation? (POLL)

[NeonRabbit221B]

I lose about 350 ml with my evo. Maybe a gallon on my 40B

 

[GraveKone]

Another topic gave me the idea to start a poll.

How much water do you lose each day due to evaporation?

Please note the size tank you have as well.

6 cups on my 32g, 2 cups when I wake up in the morning 4 right before I get in bed.

 

[ReefRusty]

Have a waterbox 70.2 and would loose around 1- 1.5L per day or 0.5 gallons Honestly a 200L tank and over 1L evaporates its crazy. I guess if you run a warmer tank it will be higher. Mine sits at 25.9 degrees or 78-79

13L ato 3.5gal will last me 8-10 days

 

[Jamo7]

Enough to have to put more in!
(couldn’t resist sorry...not sorry)

 

[KyOsIBa515]

I have a redsea 350 and I lose a gallon a day give or take. It was less than a gallon until I added T-5’s to the mix. I increased my normal temp by about 2 degrees getting into the low 79 range at its highest with supplemental T-5’s. However, I did see a noticeable difference by adding heat from the T-5’s.

 

[SaltISlife]

My 6 foot 135 gallon tank. I lose 1-2 gallons a day. I have glass tops on 90% of the tank. With a maybe 12 inch long by 6 inchs wide openeing in the middle that i use for feeding and to keep it ventilated. I have no sump.

After day two i generally have to put 3 gallons back in. Sometimes 4.. but generally 3. I have no sump as i mentioned so no auto top off.

But honestly in 135 gallons.. 3 gallons doesnt even do anything to the salinity.

I also have a ceiling fan on full blast directly over it. And my tabks at 80-82f with 6 T5s. So it can climb to 84f during the day. Even in winter

 

[RJKain-777]

7-10 gallons per day on a 700 gallon system

 

[mindme]

Another topic gave me the idea to start a poll.

How much water do you lose each day due to evaporation?

Please note the size tank you have as well.

I lose about 1.5 gallons a day on my 180g. Probably about 200g water volume in total counting the sump.

I lose about .5 gallons per day on my 25g cube. It has a glass lid on it which keeps in most of the moisture, but I have a fan that blows on the back for cooling and that increases the evap. Without the fan blowing, probably .5 gallons every 2 days.

And probably about .25 gallons a day on my 29g. It's an anemone tank and the clowns always stay in the anemone and when scared go more towards the anemone, so I don't have a lid.

 

[EstelleNJarrod]

Strangely enough, we lose more in the winter. Our 125g reef with 30g sump is about 2-3 a day in the winter and 1-2 in the summer. Tank does not have a lid. Our 120g aggressive loses about 1/2g a day but has a lid.

 

[SaltISlife]

Strangely enough, we lose more in the winter. Our 125g reef with 30g sump is about 2-3 a day in the winter and 1-2 in the summer. Tank does not have a lid. Our 120g aggressive loses about 1/2g a day but has a lid.

Its the dry air. It sucks moisture out faster.. in the summer i lose less water too due to the humidity in the room

 

[highest_tides]

Old DT with open top and a DIY sump for a total volume of 165G and I loose about 3 G a day. Very dry here in the midwest

 

[ccarr123]

about a gallon a day on 65 gal DT with 15 gal sump