Dosing tubing getting blocked up

[Colin_S]

Does anyone have the same issue as me? Running triton, my 3B liquid always gets blocked up on the outlet that goes into the water collum, it happens after a week or so. I'm using silicone tubing, and all tubes are out of the water.
Any little hacks to prevent this happening?

 

[Billldg]

@Tim@Triton, @Julian@Triton

 

[K7BMG]

Yea I have some clogging issues from time to time.
I dont really have a fix.
I just rinse the tube.
I had a lot more issues when I was dosing less like 10ml a day.
Cant say I have had an issue lately as my system is requiring 45ml a day now. Maybe it stay wet and not allowed to dry out anymore.

 

[rhastareefer]

May not work but might be worth trying diluting that one by half and dosing 2x the amount?

 

[Colin_S]

i think i'm dosing 7ml at the moment. i have split the 7ml into a 3ml dose and 6hrs later a 4ml dose to try and keep the end from drying up. if it continues to dry up i can always try more frequent dosing and less ml.
Someone did mention to me about cutting the tubes at the end to a 45 dagree. i haven't tried yet, but worth keeping it in mind

 

[K7BMG]

Yes cutting at a 45 might help.

 

[Julian@Triton]

Usually any issues with precipitation/crystallisation can be solved by either (or both):

1) Increasing the temperature of the solution. Some people sit their dosing containers on heating mats (I think that they sell them for reptile enclosures).
2) Dilution with RODI and then increased dosage accordingly.

I hope this helps.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Have you tried putting a pipette fitting on the end of the tube to make the diameter of the outlet opening smaller?

 

[Uncle99]

What about 1ml, seven times per day

 

[Colin_S]

so far the crystallising has lessened by having it dose 2x per day. I think when I increase the ml, I'll add more frequent dosing.