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I've seen some people set up coral quarantine tanks by having the AWC pumps send tank water to a separate tank and having the overflow on this tank go to the drain. I'm curious whether this system could grow corals long-term and be used as a frag tank providing adequate lighting and flow is...

Hello, I'm currently planning the build out of an AWC system with my Hydros and wanted a quick sanity check to make sure what I was planning is possible within the app. Currently I have a 50 gallon IM AIO that I'd like to start performing 2% daily AWC changes for with my Hydros. I have the...

Selling an excellent condition Kamoer X2SR from my last build breakdown. It works flawlessly (((and you will never go back once you go AWC))) This includes the john guest fittings necessary to convert to heavier duty tubing (or you can just include vinyl tubing). I wrote an article about it a...

Hi all, I want to set up an AWC. But I don't want to spend hundreds. Do you see anything wrong with this? I have a ReefDose 4 currently only using 2 heads. I don't think I'd trust the peristaltic pumps to carry saltwater 10+ feet vertically though. So what if I set up a 5g bucket in a cabinet...

Another question that has been beat to death over the years, I know….but I haven’t really heard of it keeping up with the times. In previous tanks (pre Rollermat) I was religious about my water change percentages (I started with 10% weekly manually and graduated to 1% a day when I setup my first...

Hi everyone, As the title introduce, I am planning to use the Jebao DP4 (should arrive in a couple of days) for automatic water changes. Now, I am not in crazy need/necessity for AWC giving that I have a 30 gal tank with less than 25-26 g water.. and I change around 8% water every week.. BUT...

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Automated Water Changers (AWC's) - Use One? DIY or Commerical Offering? What Scale (AWC tankage and aquarium tankage)? I am back into reef-keeping after over 10 years of being away from that particular science. In that time there has been quite an explosion of methodology, technology and...

Starting a build thread here for my Red Sea Reefer 250. I'll be doing an SPS Dominant tank with AWC/as much automated as possible since I travel with work quite a lot. The primary goal is for stability and minimal time with hands in the tank. I think a big part of this is going to be the fish...

Hello R2R! So I am getting ready to set up a "smart" water mixing station. With that, I am in the beginning stages of planning the design. I have my hands on 3 65-gal pickling containers, so those will be my storage containers. 2 drums will be stacked on each other (connected with PVC) for...

Hey All- I am just getting back into reefing after being out for the past ~12+ years and have a Biocube 32 set up (again - this is the same tank I had before, but with fancy LEDs now!). Back when I was in reefing before, auto water changes were not really a thing. I definitely see the...

Bumblebee Reef 75g display tank 30g sump/refugium 85g NET Contents 1-5: The Build 6-8: Getting Wet 9: The Merger 10: Tang Gang 11-13: Year One Journey 14: Year Two Journey 15++: Year Three Journey Latest FEB 23 https://www.instagram.com/reel/CofulkeI6LU/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= TLDR Minimal...

Introduction: Hi and thanks for checking out this thread. I just joined reef2reef and this is my first post. I got into reefing while serving in the military in San Diego California from 2013-2017. I moved back home to Washington state and have always wanted to get back into the hobby. We have...

Hello Everyone I am new to this forum and converting from Freshwater to Reef aquarium. I'm excited in my new journey but do understand that I have to make a solid decision on the way I approach the setup of this tank. So I have hard decisions in a short time. So i'm trying to help create a...

A few months back I set up auto water changes on my Waterbox 130. It has worked amazingly well.. in theory. Back when I was doing bi-weekly 10-15% water changes, I would notice a happy shift in my tank after doing it. Corals and fish seemed to love the refresh, and things did well. With the AWC...

Hello! So I have a 75 gallon aquarium set up. It has a few soft coral and a few LPS atm. My goal for my tank is for it to be a soft coral dominated with a hand full of lps here and there tank. I don't like the fact that If I want to start doing two part, that I will need to to do mandatory...

i want to setup an auto water change with dosing pumps. I want to use Neptune systems or GHL and I’m leaning toward Neptune, but the cost is very high. I was just wondering the thoughts of other reefers in the community??? And maybe what setups others are using?

If I am going to set up my tank for ATW with the Neptune DOS do I also need to have an ATO?

Since my calcium reactor cant seem to keep up with my alkalinity needs, would it be feasible to dump some kalk into my saltwater container? I've implemented automatic water change of about 7500ml/day. Would there be issues like clogging the lines, burning up my DOS, screwing up the chemistry?

I’ve never made a build thread. Figured I’d give it a shot. I currently have a 105g DSA tank and have tangs and a trigger that are outgrowing it. I purchased a 140g tank that has been floating around a few local members and was never set back up. Tank is 60x30x18 and the fish should like it...

My Doser for my AWC;s! I have this dosing pump hooked up to my saltwater mixing station. It transfers water from my salt barrel to my sump, etc.

I just picked up an AutoAqua AWC/ATO for my IM 40 system. I'm in the process of setting up a water change/mixing station and needed an ATO solution for the RODI reservoir. While looking at the options that I'd trust, I decided my existing Hydrofill was going to be a safe bet but left my tank...

Here is a do-not attempt to DIY o_O I ordered a Dual Head Peristaltic pump off ebay for ~$30 for an Auto Water Change system.. Do a search and I'll bet you can find it. Upon testing the dual head for even rate, I found that they were around 8-10ml/min off from one another. Figured I would let...