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Re: George Booth's Evaporation Problem solved
Merrill writes:
> Just attach a Meridian Automatic Aquarium Water Changer to your aquarium
> or to your "well" under the aquarium and turn it on for the required
> time to replace your evaporation. It changes 5 gallons per hour, so you
> can even hook it up to a garden hose timer for the amount of time to
> replace the evaporated water. It's an ideal project for you.
Do it one better. Hide a small second tank behind it or elsewhere at the
same level. Put an all-plastic toilet valve assembly in that second tank,
and run a permanent siphon between the two. When the water level drops, the
valve opens by itself and replaces the water. Or how's this-
You get a couple of those one-gallon-per hour drip valves in the garden
department at the department store. You hang them in the tank, attached to a
sprinkler system timer. You set the thing so it replaces 10% or 20% or
whatever every week, twice a week, again-whatever. You set up a
self-regulating siphon (goose-neck siphon) in the back of the tank and run
its output to a drain somewhere. You can automatically top off and get water
changes done at the same time without any effort from you.
Bob Dixon