Hard plumbing dosing lines?

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Has anyone set up their dosers to have hard tubing instead of soft? Do I just need rigid airline tube and push connects? I feel like it would look much nicer
 
I used rigid tubing to bulkhead to push connect barbed adapter to dosing lines. Some dosing lines were smaller than the push connect adapter so you can use barbed reducer dosing fittings you find on Amazon to attach the “3/16” like to 1/4 adapter tubing. One word of wisdom tho, the rigid tubing does create a small leak that will cause air in the line. I just super glue the rigid line to the bulkhead. Hope I understood your quilestion and this helped.
 
You could instead use cable management clips to pull the lines tight and straight in whatever layout and fancy angles you want

Would look just as nice if not nicer and would be easier to change later
 
Here I thought OP just wanted to have a rigid tube in the dosing container. You want all the line to be rigid tubing. Yea idk about that. You’d be using a lot more push connectors, which like I said before, cause air leaks.

I agree with @elysics that the cable management way would look better.
 
Thank you guys look like I will just be sticking them to the wall although the idea just sounded cool in my head
 

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