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Old 10-05-2006, 07:14 PM   #26 (permalink)
Wasserpest
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One thing I found to be a problem is if the dosing solution is placed underneath the tank, and a fairly long airline goes up to the tank, there is a slight head pushing down, and no micros are dosed into the tank since the checkvalves aren't that good.

To get around that, I integrated the micro dosing with the macro powerhead dosing as drawn here:



This way, the micros are injected into the macro hose at about the same level as the dosing bottle, and the amount equals whatever the syringe doses in one turn.
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