Has anyone plumbed or thought about plumbing their reef aquarium with copper pipes? They have quick disconnects now for copper pipe and you could literally snap the system together. I was thinking about trying it out on my return lines. The value is the connections can still swivel without leaking... Just wondering if there is any problems over time with Salt and Copper... Thoughts?
Copper Pipes for plumbing a reef aquarium?
- Thread starter cklayko2000
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I'd be very uneasy using copper pipe. No matter what you do you're still going to get some traces of copper in your system from these pipes, and most fish and especially inverts don't handle copper too well. I thought PVC piping was easy enough to deal with.
Copper leaching would quickly kill all your invertebrates, and slowly kill your fish.
There's a reason people use PVC, it's pretty non-reactive with water, it's easy to assemble, it's cheap, and if you must have disconnect areas you can get unions to remove pieces as needed.
There's a reason people use PVC, it's pretty non-reactive with water, it's easy to assemble, it's cheap, and if you must have disconnect areas you can get unions to remove pieces as needed.
Copper pipes under your house are fine, simply because the freshwater that runs through them isn't as reactive as saltwater. On top of that fact water runs through those pipes constantly so any copper that does get dislodged leaves that supply when you drink/cook/filter the water, where as for your tank it's the same water that's running through them constantly.
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