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12/29/2017, 05:42 PM | #1 |
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RD50 for salt water mixing /water change station
I am currently designing my salt water mixing station. I am usin RD pumps for my tank and wanted to be consistent with what pumps I am using. Would there be any issue with using the RD50 to mix salt water. Mainly would dumping in salt and allowing some solid the get pulled through the pump cause any issues? Don’t want the granularmsalt to damage the pump in any way.
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12/29/2017, 05:57 PM | #2 | |
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01/01/2018, 02:20 PM | #3 |
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For the RD50’s. Will the pump be able to tolerate multiple on/off cycles every day. I plan on using it at about 50% and the turning it on for 5 minutes every 6 hours once fully mixed. To help prevent granular salt from being sucked into the pump I may do initial mix with a powerhead. The RD would be for turnover, to transfer water from one tank to another, to fill tank after water change, and to fill buckets.
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01/01/2018, 04:09 PM | #4 | |
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01/02/2018, 06:25 PM | #5 |
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As of now I think I’m going with a blue line / pan world pump. Only issue is my local source and go to online source can’t get the pump right now. Guess I’ll be waiting a little bit. That, or I may move up to an Iwaki. Need to start doing some water changes on my new tank. The die off from my Pukani has pushed my nitrates up to over 100 in my ~500gallon tank. That’s a lot of nitrate.
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01/04/2018, 07:54 AM | #7 |
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I’m trying to decide on plumbing size. Scott, what size pump are you using and what size plumbing on the intake. I ended up getting a pan world 50px-x which has a 1” in and 1” out. My guy recommends 1” plumbing for intake but I wasn’t sure if I should upsize to 1-1/4 or even 1-1/2 on the intake. Output will for sure be 1”.
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01/04/2018, 08:47 AM | #8 | |
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