A little progress
I've yet to start dosing, so I am getting a little hair algae and dust on the glass. Not much, definately not as much as I expected, so I can't complain.
Even without dosing, I'm seeing growth on nearly everything. It's slow, but a few inches over the past week I'd say.
The cloudy water has cleared up, finally. Lasted about a week, and was driving me nuts.
Here's a quick shot I just took. It's not great, still playing with camera settings to figure out how to take a good FTS:
So, my project for today was to make an automatic dosing system. Yeah, you can buy them, but they're not cheap. Thanks again to the folks over at
GWAPA, I did something very similiar to
this autodoser from GWAPA
I didn't snap pics along the way, not really too much to it. I found some tall
3.2L canisters at bed bath and beyond, drilled a 1/4" hole in them for the tubing to run through.
For pumps I'm using a
mini-jet 606 I got from my shipment this week from F&S (yes, lately this has been a weekly thing, sometimes twice a week - lol). I used a piece of 1/2" tubing I had laying around and a medication dosing syringe (that the pharmicist at Target gave me for free) to convert to 3/16" standard airline.
So, using a
hamilton dual outlet digital timer that has settings for 1 min durations, I did some testing with water and calculated that I pump about 100ml of fluid per minute with this configuration and my head height.
I decided to give the
PPS-Pro solution a whirl and see how it does. I modified their standard mixture, increasing the K by about 20% and scaling everything up for my 100ml dosages.
Here's the installed pics (left is macros, right is micros):
And the oulet above the tank - taking special care to make sure they cannot get in the tank and create a backflush onto my floor:
Thoughts?