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Hello reef community! Im new to the hobby currently working on trying to setup a 20g nano cube saltwater tank. I want this tank to be as little maintenance as I can possibly make it and with that in mind I wanted a automatic water change system to eliminate the need to haul around 5g buckets of water. However with with the Neptune dos being out of the budget for me and with cheaper options seeming to be unreliable from customer reviews I came up with an idea and drew it out shown in the attached file below. So I wanted to know if this idea I had in mind would actually work? Is there a major flaw in this design that I am unaware of? Now let me get into how I plan this system to work. It starts off by getting water from a water line to a RO/DI unit and from the RO/DI unit run a line to a RO water reservoir (5g) for ATO purposes and run another line to a saltwater reservoir for the AWC system. From there add one submersible pump in the saltwater reservoir and another same submersible pump in the back of the AIO fish tank and both submersible pumps plugged into the same programable timer outlet set to turn on and off 1 day out of the week for a certain time depending of how many GPH the submersible pumps will push out. So the idea here is that since they will both be running at the same time and speed, the pump in the fish tank will pump out water to a drain line and the pump in the saltwater reservoir pumping new clean water back into the tank not setting off the ATO sensor because the water line should remain the same and that's it. Thanks guys!!!