home made dosing pumps!?!?

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

has anyone ever used a medical pump for dosing?? i have heard of many fine tuned medical devices being used to dose aquariums due to accurate measurements but i have not met anybody that has actualy done it!.

so if your doing it please let me know how and with what! and better yet how much! cause dosing daily is a pain in the @$$.

 

[thirty5]

Yes I have actually I think that Richie (forget his screen name) is going to be using medical pumps as a doser...

 

[marrone]

I've used Medical dosing pumps for years. You need to use them with a float switch, which you can purchase from the same person selling the medical dosing pump.

Basically you set the dosing pump to 300 and when the water level goes down, the float switch will turn the dosing pump on, resulting in water being dripped into the tank or sump. It works really well and the good thing is you don't have to worry about dumping a lot of water into the tank at once. The only things you need to check are that the float switch is ok and working and replace the tubing every so often.

 

[xclusive252]

I am using 2 Kangaroo pumps they are great I can dose 1ml to 400ml an hr and I know my tank is ok they have a back up battery and large display screen

 

[rkaragozler]

I use 2 different kinds. the first 1 is a Gemini pc4, which is a 4 channel doser that I use for 24/7 automatic water change.
and the other 2 are Compat 1 channel dosers, that I use for adding vinegar, and magnesium.
They both work flawlessly
Here are pics of both units.

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Wooooooooooooooooooow what a setup u got goin there rich , is it easy to set up? Im interested in setting my stuff up like that so i can breathe a little , i need more details on where you got the smaller pumps , pm sent

 

[rkaragozler]

On the Compat pumps I figured out how to disable dose limit, so it's not an issue, as far as air in line I'm still working on that, I found out that if it's primed right their is no issue. I am also working on ml p/h to exceed 250 ml.
As far as setup I fill the 500ml bottles and they are good to go, If you wanted bigger holding tanks it's easy to minupulate 5 gallon pails as well.

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Wow that sounds like a must have man i sent you my number if you can give me a buzz tommorrow i think i want to buy one

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Do they only run on ac or batteries?

 

[rkaragozler]

They run both, the battery back up is good for 10 hours on both units, this is good as long as you also have battery backups for your dt pumps as well.

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Awesome i gotta get it !!!

 

[kenconnect]

Going to follow this

 

[janey]

Where u get the those jugs ?/

I too have a Compat and i want to start dosing ALk. But Not to sure on using the Compat

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Which jugs do u mean?

 

[rkaragozler]

they are 500ml bottles with the drip set attached to them, I have about half a dozen of them, pm me if interested.