omg...check this little product out!!

[Skimmy]

computer controlled automatic water changer:

http://genesisreefsystems.com/products.php?cat=9

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

That's pretty awesome and nearly affordable!

 

[NWDiver]

So tempting...
I just know if I did that, my big changes would be far to infrequent.

 

[roscoe]

Wow this is interesting! I don't know if I missed it but does this have a dry area to store the salt and mix it up to the set salinity?

 

[fishoutofwater]

that looks very interesting. I might have to try it.

 

[dtd87]

This is amazing! To bad I don't have a big enough system to warrant this purchase

 

[Chichas01]

cool, but I'm not sure how it works as a whole. Are the 2 reseviors for new water? It only adds up to about 2.5-3 gallons of water if what they hold is about 10lbs of water each. And like Roscoe said, it sounds like you still have to mix your salt and water.
Or is this a new water in old water out type of system where you are constantly taking out old water at the same rate you add new?
Either way it could be usefull but it still seems you would have to use larger resevoirs for it to be practical and have it mix and monitor your new water salinity as well.

 

[mcoomer]

Looking at the manuals it sounds like you mix up fresh saltwater in the bin and system pulls it into the reservoir in one gallon increments. First it empties a gallon of water to the waste tank then it brings in a gallon from the fresh tank. Personally, I'd be more interested if the system could empty 10, 20, 30 gallons at a time and then refill the tank but to do that it would need to be able to shut down pumps and heaters to avoid running them dry. I think that I'll stick to my 5 gallon buckets.

Mike

 

[burning2nd]

pritty cool, but i wouldnt trust that part of my tank to anything but my self... mixing salt and water nope

 

[freakin]

Sounds like those 10 pound reservoirs are just for holding water temporarily. You need an additional reservoir to pump into and out of those reservoirs. So I assume you can have like a 30g drum full of sw and a pump to deliver it into the metering reservoir, then teh same for waste water

The system will drain water and clear the waste reservoir, then fill from the sw reservoir and continue the process. So it sounds like you are only changing 1 reservoir of water at a time. not great but certainly not as terrible as initially thought, assuming that is how it actually works

 

[SRWoodcock]

Very interesting.

 

[ronone10]

I couldn't find a demo video... What's up with that? Some one buy it and report back...