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Re: [Killietalk] Drip rate on flow through systems?

Mark,

I am still adjusting my system, but I am setting it up such that the water comes on at full throttle for a limited period each day. I am aiming to change 10% per day. Remember that is not a true 10% change, because of mixing of old and new water. A certain amount of the new water is flushed with the old. I am finding on my "station 2", which has 40 five gallon tanks, that the water needs only to run for a few minutes. For my fry boxes, I don't want the water to come in at full force as it would "blow the fry out of the water", literally. I therefore installed a valve inline to throttle down the flow. It still only needs to flow for one minute to add more than 10% of the volume in the box each time.

Barry
At 10:13 PM 12/24/2003 -0800, you wrote:

For those of you that have flow-through systems for your fish
rooms/racks, what drip rates do you use?  Do all your species get the
same drip rate?  Are your systems running constantly, or for what length
of time per day?

Thanks for the input... I'm still trying to tweak my setup, and don't
want my fish to get shocked... so I figure I'll find out what works for
the rest of you.

TIA,

Mark Pearlscott

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