How many times has this happened to you?
How many times has this phenomenon happened to you? You come home and your tank is full of air bubbles, coming in from your main system pump. The sump is low and now you have to top it off with freshwater to replace what has evaporated away.
Believe it or not, if this is allowed to go on for prolonged period of time, then your fish can get the bends. That’s right, it’s called supersaturation. And if it goes on for more than a few hours (depending on how bad it is) your fish can develop bubbles under their skin in their fins and on their bodies, and particularly in their eyes. If it goes unchecked for just one day, it can even kill your fish.
The way to prevent it is to automate your evaporation replacement, so that you don’t have to REMEMBER to do it. One of the things I have learned is that the more you can eliminate your aquariums need for you to REMEMBER to do certain tasks, the fewer problems you’ll have, and the longer your animals will live.
Our preferred approach to automating evaporation replacement (a.k.a. top-off), is to use a dosing pump that runs 24/7 and pumps at the same rate of evaporation. This is the simplest approach. It doesn’t require the use of float valves or float switches. And if the dosing pump breaks, then you are simply back to the old way of needing to do manual top-off – until the pump is repaired/replaced.
And using a dosing pump will also save you time, which you can spend enjoying your aquarium.
If you want to learn more tips like this and to get access to our recommended products and fine-tuned methodologies, just go to www.saltwateraquariumsecrets.com.
Sincerely,
Warren Gibbons
www.saltwateraquariumsecrets.com
