DIY Drip System!! Automated Water Change

[@TheFishNerd]

Be aware: if you’re running the drip line to multiple tanks, you need to either a) keep the water on at all times or b) install a check valve. If you turn the water off without a check valve, it will siphon the higher tanks into the lower ones.

[@aquaticambition9722]

How often do you change the carbon in the pre filter?

[@TheRicoBentley]

How often do you change the carbon?

[@popparock6506]

WARNING I am a plumber and a fish keeper PLEASE use caution when using irrigation tubing and fitting inside your home, it is meant to be used outside where if it leaks (and it will) it does not cause water damage. Instead, use a brass pressure reducing valve with a gauge and set it as low as it will go and still obtain your preferred drip rate to all the tanks, 5-15 psi, use pex tubing or thicker-walled beverage grade tubing with the appropriate fittings, to a brass needle valve at each tank. If you use any barbed fittings (on the low-pressure side )always use a hose clamp and please don't use airline tubing your just asking your trouble!

[@FridayFishFacts]

Very smart. Who wants to do water changes? Well done Carlos

[@TheFishNerd]

Not me!! Lol Thanks!!

[@CreativePetKeeping]

Ah.. this is the stuff of my dreams haha

[@TheFishNerd]

It’s seriously better than sliced bread. Lol

[@rgf918]

simplest yet effective way to do it ,thanks. It saved from $150 to $250 automatic water changers

[@TheFishNerd]

Awesome! Glad it helped!

[@tynado1173]

Love the storage drawers as a media tower. Genious

[@WildFishTanks]

Perfect timing! I’m literally building my fishroom this weekend and have watched your other videos on drip system and carbon filter a few times. The tip about cleaning the carbon is great, your probably saved me 2 dozen perfectly good drip emitters I would have ruined.

[@TheFishNerd]

Awesome!! Good luck with the build!!

[@mynametater]

Glad to see you putting out another video, I was getting worried. Hope everything is going great!

[@TheFishNerd]

Thanks!! Things are good! Just been crazy busy lately.

[@JithinRaj-xb2fe]

2 years ago my non planted tank has been there with this system. Those times i did not had phone. Somehow in my brain i had this idea and my tank is clean as new even now 😅, no water changes.

[@ejfishes7610]

Neat setup Carlos, thanks for sharing! Glad to see you back, hope all is well.

[@TheFishNerd]

Thanks EJ! Things are good!! Just been crazy busy lately!

[@JHAquatics]

I love your intro was so jealous of it when I started on KZbin. I catch myself whistling it. Congrats on the water change setup.

[@TheFishNerd]

Thanks man! I thought of you when I decided to use it again. 👍🏼

[@PincheMigs]

Nice! What a huge time saved that has to be. 😊

[@TheFishNerd]

Totally!! I don’t know how people with large fish rooms handle water changes without an automated system!

[@crittercousins8987]

I see you watch the king of diy

[@TheFishNerd]

Lol yup!!

[@HeatherNielsenScarletAquatics]

Awesome to see another vid from you! I'm liking this drip system. Thank you for showing us!

[@TheFishNerd]

Thanks Heather!! Good to be back!

[@slowerlowerfishing]

thanks for sharing these little diy videos keep them coming

[@TheFishNerd]

Thanks! If there’s something else you’d like me to show, let me know.

[@slowerlowerfishing]

just keep doing what youre doing man its working just great

[@boxingfan2469]

I'm probably the only one that would have liked to see how you ran your lines your drain hole

[@TheFishNerd]

Nothing special. I just connected 1/2 inch pvc to the overflows and ran it along the floor.

[@anthonyragan2696]

This is the only way I'd have a large fish room.

[@TheFishNerd]

It’s the only way I’d keep a small one! Lol

[@FishTankMonsters]

Are you on sewage or septic if you have septic won’t the constant water eventually fill the septic system? I have a 540 gallon freshwater tank I’m planning on doing a drip system in the spring I will be installing a well so no chlorine or chemicals but I have a septic tank I will have to discharge the water onto my lawn

[@TheFishNerd]

I’m on a sewer

[@kevinmonahan8844]

Great to see a video from you. How are the Hemichromis Moanda Cichlids doing?

[@TheFishNerd]

They’re doing great! My bristlenose plecos keep eating their eggs though. :/

[@brans7269]

That's pretty cool man, how often witll you change the carbon in your DIY PVC thing?

[@TheFishNerd]

Depends on how much water you have flowing through it but I’d recommend every six months just to be safe if your setup is like mine (3-5 emitters at .5 gallon per hour)

[@WichitaFallFishKeeper]

Good to see you. How are your Shrimp doing?

[@TheFishNerd]

They’re doing great!

[@daltonschaefer1071]

Can you link the activated carbon you use in the filter?

[@daltonschaefer1071]

also how much carbon does it take to fill it up

[@paulsiena8483]

How does this affect filtering, and overall water chemistry maintenance? Do I still need my canister filter with all its bio-media? (I have a 36 gallon freshwater, so if I drip one gallon per hour...) I imagine its just some detritus cleanup, but no algae can build with 0 nitrate levels correct?

[@benjaminkammerer3008]

How does the water get out of the tank. What was the wall Mart dresser sitting in the deal doing?

[@TheFishNerd]

The water overflows through pvc to a floor drain. The Walmart drawers are a diy trickle filter.

[@RickyRanchu]

How often do you change carbon? and do you know if the carbon softens the water at all? Great video! I like how you make it so simple to install.

[@TheFishNerd]

I try to change mine every six months (it should last longer but just in case). It would depend heavily on how much water you’re running through the system though.

[@exoticaqualife1386]

Does the Fish poop get cleaned by that or just the water because your drip system rox the carbon filter method is also a great way.👍👍

[@TheFishNerd]

Mostly just the water. Poop itself will need to be removed by the filter or by gravel vac every so often. Or as I do in several of my tanks, I let it settle to the bottom as mulm for plant fertilizer and fry food. Depends on your setup though

[@paulwoodcock2600]

curious on how this works with a sump as should you have a power cut the extra water from the display tank will go to the sump like normal but will go out of the waste pipe , when the power comes back on the water that needs to go back in the display tank is gone so the sump will empty and run dry .

[@TheFishNerd]

It works just like that. Pump runs dry until the sump fills back up. Hasn't hurt my pump yet but I don't know if it would be problem with a different pump.

[@mohammedsabeelvlogs5694]

Hii broo Can u pls make video on how to care for cray fish and shrimps pls

[@TheFishNerd]

I’ve got videos on each of those. :)

[@tantrinh2864]

How often do you have to change your carbon?

[@TheFishNerd]

Depends on how many gallons per hour you run through it but I've gone over a year.

[@emeryz10]

Did you get this setup from Joey?

[@TheFishNerd]

Parts of it. I gleaned from several people and some I worked out on my own.

[@ericlind6581]

Do you know what percentage of your total water volume you are swapping out daily or weekly?

[@TheFishNerd]

It's different for each rack of tanks.

[@ericlind6581]

The Fish Nerd What do you recommend, 50% a month?

[@AQUAFUNK]

Did you happen to have tested the water coming out of that canister that you made? I would like to make one too but I want to be sure that it doesn't Factor remove all the chlorine

[@TheFishNerd]

I have tested for chlorine and it gets all of it. :) I don’t know for sure how long the carbon lasts because I don’t want to reach its limit but I can say that it still gets all the chlorine from my water after six months at least.

[@patricialeckey9114]

What does this do to the water bill

[@TheFishNerd]

If my calculations are right, about 50 bucks a year for the amount of tanks I’m dripping into. Depends on local rates though.

[@thefishymailman3767]

I don't have any better way to let you know but I hit up Joel and cory after you left the stream you can re watch it about 50-75% in to the stream about the invite to RFT keep on keeping on brother.

[@TheFishNerd]

Cool man! I’ll re-watch it.

[@doorstoppers9287]

That drip thing can I hook it up to prime de-chlorinator to drip into my reserve??????

[@TheFishNerd]

Not sure I follow you. The pvc carbon prefilter dechlorinates for me

[@doorstoppers9287]

The Fish Nerd carbon dechlorinates ?

[@TheFishNerd]

DOOR STOPPERS yup! Doesn’t get chloramines but if your water company uses regular chlorine, carbon gets it.

[@doorstoppers9287]

The Fish Nerd ok good to know my city only uses chlorine 👍🏻

[@TheFishNerd]

Yup! I wouldn’t trust just the carbon in your regular filter but the prefilter would handle it.

[@PrairieJournals]

New sub, Pentecostal🇨🇦🇮🇱💖🇮🇱🇨🇦👰

[@ShanEvolved]

What if your water has chloramine

[@TheFishNerd]

I dont believe carbon will remove chloramines (or at least most won't). What you could try is having the water dripped into a fishless tank or tub with heavy aeration to gas off the chloramines before the water goes to your fish tank. Others simply fill a holding container with water and treat the water before a pump pushes the treated water into their tanks.

[@twoheadedchicken7904]

Was look for a video about drip systems for plants the thumb nail made it look like there was a bunch of cannabis behind him

[@keithjackson4247]

Bout time nerd