Shaady
Community Member
Station (55g of RO) is in the basement, tank(140g) is one floor up and across the house.
I was planning to run pvc and pop through the floor near the tank.
My typical 10% water changes will be 14 gallons.
Most water change stations I see have both RO and mixing next to eachother. Since I am only mixing 14 gallons, in my mind I was just going to run an RO line up to tank and mix in a 20g container at point of use. I was gonna have a hose attached so i can fill ATO or buckets as needed. With the distance involved i was worried about saltwater just sitting in the line and seemed wasteful and time consuming to flush the line out.
As this is my first tank, am I missing or losing out on anything obvious by doing it this way versus piping both a ro and saltwater line that I assume I'll have to flush each use? I don't know the benefit of having a large mixing station if most cases I only need 14 gallons and if I do need to mix more(I'm assuming rarely once running) I'll have multiple smaller containers to mix in.
I was planning to run pvc and pop through the floor near the tank.
My typical 10% water changes will be 14 gallons.
Most water change stations I see have both RO and mixing next to eachother. Since I am only mixing 14 gallons, in my mind I was just going to run an RO line up to tank and mix in a 20g container at point of use. I was gonna have a hose attached so i can fill ATO or buckets as needed. With the distance involved i was worried about saltwater just sitting in the line and seemed wasteful and time consuming to flush the line out.
As this is my first tank, am I missing or losing out on anything obvious by doing it this way versus piping both a ro and saltwater line that I assume I'll have to flush each use? I don't know the benefit of having a large mixing station if most cases I only need 14 gallons and if I do need to mix more(I'm assuming rarely once running) I'll have multiple smaller containers to mix in.
