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Originally Posted by psteeleb
It is supose to help to keep it submerged for the reason you give but I found it will encrust either way.
I wish I had a picture of the "dip stick" pipe I used on my 300g. It was a piece of 1" pvc about 3' long with a bunch of holes drilled in the bottom. My top off water and Kalc reactor effluent went into the dip stick, used mainly as a syphon break. After a couple years, when I pulled it out I found these long calcium deposit vents built up on the pipe around and extending from the holes. Some of them 5-6" long. The vents looked just like the ones you see at the bottom of the ocean at the mid atlantic rift, just smaller of course.
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Woah haha. Probably oxygen content of the water causing the tubing to encrust I'm guessing...? Thanks for the info Pete.