Why did I put this off for so long - ATO

[Tangdora]

So I am proud to say, after 3 longs years of manually adding 5 gallons of water daily to my 350 gallon I have finally setup an ATO for it. In my case, it is plumbed directly to my rodi, but is complete with the whole 9 yards in terms of back ups and redundancies as well as been designed in a way to pre flush the membrane prior to actual filling.

Now that it’s completed I sit here and really ask myself why have waited so long to set this all up lol. Any one else been severely procrastinating on tank projects now or in the past. How long did it finally take you to complete or how longhas been already stalling for

 

[Sam7]

congrats...they are well worth it. Been using them for years....big time saver

 

[Josh71727]

Yess I’m taking awhile to setup my 48 gallon , i feel overwhelmed because i want everything to be perfect . It’s been 6 months and im just about to flood it with water in a couple of days

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Congrats on you for doing a manual top off of water for that long! No way I could use a reef tank without an ato

 

[mfinn]

It was a really good moment for me too when I went with a ATO.

 

[Tangdora]

Yess I’m taking awhile to setup my 48 gallon , i feel overwhelmed because i want everything to be perfect . It’s been 6 months and im just about to flood it with water in a couple of days

Slow and steady wins the race. Three years later, I still haven’t fully put the whole tank together I’m still 50-50 right now between tank and a whole house renovation lol

 

[kevgib67]

I went manual with my 32g, no big deal. When I upgraded to my 105g display and 40g sum I went ATO. I couldn’t imagine keeping it up manually now.

 

[MC Blowfish]

I've been looking at them. Now that I've upgraded to a 40 gallon, I've had more issues with the evaporation.

 

[BryanM]

So I am proud to say, after 3 longs years of manually adding 5 gallons of water daily to my 350 gallon I have finally setup an ATO for it. In my case, it is plumbed directly to my rodi, but is complete with the whole 9 yards in terms of back ups and redundancies as well as been designed in a way to pre flush the membrane prior to actual filling.

Now that it’s completed I sit here and really ask myself why have waited so long to set this all up lol. Any one else been severely procrastinating on tank projects now or in the past. How long did it finally take you to complete or how longhas been already stalling for

I'm a procrastinator for sure, but ATO is on the mandatory list for big tanks, and really any tanks.

Sadly to plumb in to my RODI I'd have to drill a hole from the garage under my house, etc, etc.

 

[Tangdora]

I'm a procrastinator for sure, but ATO is on the mandatory list for big tanks, and really any tanks.

Sadly to plumb in to my RODI I'd have to drill a hole from the garage under my house, etc, etc.

That’s how I’m planning to run this but right now I have it all exposed on the main level. Going to run it for a week and make sure it functions as intended. If all good the then fun begins when I have to run all the lines under an 18 crawlspace.

 

[Uncle99]

I started with “I can top it off myself”
I only lasted a week.
Only a couple of litres a day.

 

[exnisstech]

I had an ATO on my first tank and every tank since. My latest why did I wait so long to do this was adding an AWC system to my 330g.