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Hi all, so I'm still low teching it, carrying and dumping 5 gallon buckets of salt water for water changes. I'm good with sticking with that method, but I'm looking to upgrade a smidgeon to take the exact volume guesswork out of it. I found the Autoaqua AWC which seems perfect, but it seems to be discontinued. I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for something that may work similarly.
I operate with three 5 gallon buckets. One with RODI water for auto top off, one for mixing and bringing salt water to my tank (up three flights of steps) and then one for draining salt water which goes down a drain. I get ~4 gallons of fresh RODI in clean bucket A, bring it up stairs, throw a heater and powerhead in it to mix. Now this is the point where I turn off my pumps, siphon water out of the tank and into dirty water bucket B which later goes down the drain. Refill the tank with clean salt water from bucket A. But if I don't nail the water level just perfectly, my ATO goes off and causes a headache. Turning the ATO off results in a 10 second screech and fill just for good measure to mess with the salinity.
In short, I'm looking for something similar to the now discontinued Autoaqua AWC that will do the pumping and make sure the volume in is equal to the volume out, so I don't have the ATO running for no reason. I don't have space for anything hard plumbed or greater volume than the three bucket method, so I'm trying to make it just a tad easier.
Thanks!
I operate with three 5 gallon buckets. One with RODI water for auto top off, one for mixing and bringing salt water to my tank (up three flights of steps) and then one for draining salt water which goes down a drain. I get ~4 gallons of fresh RODI in clean bucket A, bring it up stairs, throw a heater and powerhead in it to mix. Now this is the point where I turn off my pumps, siphon water out of the tank and into dirty water bucket B which later goes down the drain. Refill the tank with clean salt water from bucket A. But if I don't nail the water level just perfectly, my ATO goes off and causes a headache. Turning the ATO off results in a 10 second screech and fill just for good measure to mess with the salinity.
In short, I'm looking for something similar to the now discontinued Autoaqua AWC that will do the pumping and make sure the volume in is equal to the volume out, so I don't have the ATO running for no reason. I don't have space for anything hard plumbed or greater volume than the three bucket method, so I'm trying to make it just a tad easier.
Thanks!