Auto Water Change: A Mix of Methods
“Auto Water Changing” can be used in more than one way. If you are getting hooked on reefs and your tank collection is growing, you will want to keep only one water parameter to make life easier in the long run. Usually, this is done by hard connecting everything together, but if you don’t plan ahead, it’s a lot of work.
Advantages
You can mix the higher nutrients from smaller tanks with the more stable, larger water volume aquariums without having to put in fixed hard plumbing. This is the major benefit. There are also the following benefits: – All systems will gain from water repair or dosing on the main system.
- It maintains the unity of different systems in case you need to split one.
- It makes it easier to change the water without having to carry buckets.
- Makes it easier to keep track of various water parameter situations.
Case Study
My setup has seven tanks that hold a total of about 510 gallons of water. I added a 50-gallon lagoon tank and a Nano-reef tank not long ago, but I haven’t linked them to the main system yet. It got hard to keep track of three different systems, so I chose to go back to a single method. Each Auto Water Change system runs every hour with the bigger system next to it. In this case, the 50-gallon lagoon trades water with the main system, and the Nano-reef trades water with the lagoon next to it.
