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Re: More on evaporation
Bob,
There are many ways, but that is WORK!<VBG> With the Automatic Aquarium
Water Changer, you just can hook it to any water line or even into a
line like a refrigerator ice cube maker line. I just clips on to the
aquarium or well underneath the aquarium. I love it and it maintains
the water level as you want it -- even if left on too long!
Merrill
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:13:42 EDT
From: IDMiamiBob at aol_com
Subject: 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