Randy Holmes-Farley
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I understand, but at what cost? You could truck sea water to Kansas, but it seems to me there are much better ways to spend money on my system.
Others obviously disagree.
I'm not sure there's any big cost to my system compared to yours (you still need a pump, but maybe yours is a lot cheaper), but I absolutely think the cost to me is worth it even if it had zero benefit to the tank (which I don't believe to be true, I think changing water slowly and frequently has benefits).
The pumps certainly can be pricey (several hundreds dollars), but the cost per bucket of water that I haven't had to carry around is very low.
In my system, I'd have to carry buckets of about 3 gallons each day. One to the tank and one from it. Over 19 years, that works out to 13,870 buckets of water, or maybe 3 cents per bucket.