homemade daily dosing bags (kinda)

Wiz · Oct 5, 2016

I dose brs 2 part daily. Manually. 7oz per chemical. Its hard to add that much slowly. So, this happened.
My wife is an lna. I took two of these things from her work bag.

A lil clipping and gluing. Then I have these Adjustable flow drip bags.

So I can spread the dosing out over a Bunch of hours rather than 10 minutes. Please pay no attention to the Rusty clip as I will be replacing that it was a momentary fix. LOL
What do you think?

donnievaz · Oct 5, 2016

Just curious, how big is your tank? I dose about 2 ML a day in a 29.

Wiz · Oct 5, 2016

All together about 120 gallons. The display is 75, 30 gallon refugium and 29 gallon sump about half full

donnievaz · Oct 5, 2016

That's a pretty cool way to go, it's got to be better than dumping it all in at one time.

mcarroll · Oct 5, 2016

Nice!!

I used to maintain multiple thousands of gallons of retail system this way. It's neanderthal, but it's solid!

Well, with a few of these 1400mL Kent drippers. Not a bad deal if you don't DIY or have no good DIY options. For me these were just the ticket...and almost identical to what you found, but they come ready-made. It was crucial in my case that they could hang. At home that's not a requirement and I DIY'd something different:
https://www.kentmarine.com/products/aquadose.htm

JBradford · Oct 6, 2016

Cool idea. Cheaper than a pump.

mcarroll · Oct 6, 2016

JBradford said:
Cool idea. Cheaper than a pump.

+1

More manual than a pump too, but can be highly functional depending on the system!! (I did raise my stony reef on a set of manual drippers but that's awfully hard to recommend to others when you a 4-head doser is <$100.)

Even in a system with a doser you might really like having some of these around for when you have to make manual adjustments.