phishead
Aquarium Advice Activist
I have been doing a lot of thinking about this. Even people who do not hate water changes still spend time doing them. If I figured out a way to make it work I could make Millions!
Seriously, it seems that most people are pumping water out of a sump and replacing it as needed. If you vaccum substrate religiously, it probably will not work though I here that Hoover makes a robot.
Here it is, What if you placed a tee on the return pump to your system. of course one returns to the tank, but the other is plumbed to a drain. On that T, we place a irrigation/sprinkler valve. using an inexpensive timer, we set it to open one day a week at a certain time for a certain time( the amount it takes to empty your sump.)
Of course I am working on the refill piece, but it goes along the line of the auto top off system. As I read earlier today it is not so difficult to hook up you RO to a topoff system, so I think that with a little thought the brain trust here at AA can figure this out.
What do you think? Should I have already gotten a patent?
Seriously, it seems that most people are pumping water out of a sump and replacing it as needed. If you vaccum substrate religiously, it probably will not work though I here that Hoover makes a robot.
Here it is, What if you placed a tee on the return pump to your system. of course one returns to the tank, but the other is plumbed to a drain. On that T, we place a irrigation/sprinkler valve. using an inexpensive timer, we set it to open one day a week at a certain time for a certain time( the amount it takes to empty your sump.)
Of course I am working on the refill piece, but it goes along the line of the auto top off system. As I read earlier today it is not so difficult to hook up you RO to a topoff system, so I think that with a little thought the brain trust here at AA can figure this out.
What do you think? Should I have already gotten a patent?