Am I Ready?

[demonmagus]

Hi, I'm buying a 2nd hand percula 90 - it comes with all the original equipment and 25-30kg LR.

Now, the seller is bringing most of the water which is great because atm I don't have a RO unit and to buy it all from the shops would cost a lot and be very impractical, although I think I can 'survive' on shop brought till I get some new filters/membranes for the RO unit I might get with the tank.

So, I need to buy - tests, new membranes, hydrometer (getting that now though) and a decent thermometer - and salt

Is there anything I have missed out there?

I *think* this is how I'm gonna set the tank up once it's in the house,

Stand, put tank on top (lol)

used water in first (hopefully enough to cover LR till I can buy some from shop)

heater in (wait for correct temp.)

then just dump the LR in any aquascape - just want to minimize die off e.t.c.

sounds good?

If the seller doesn't bring salted water I can just mix it in the tank

 

[Mr Miagi]

Do you have several water storage containers? You could also offer them to the chap thats selling his tank to drain the existing water into. Thats what I did. Drain water into containers. Take LR home in dampened newspaper in syrophoam boxes. Use old water and fill tank once positioned. Water shouldnt have lost too much heat, depending on journey length, but add heater. Aquascape with LR.

You will only need FW to top up evaporation, so the need shouldnt be excessive initially, unless your keen on doing large water changes, which would proably be ideal considering things might cycle, and to save as much life on the LR as possible, undertaking large water changes can help minimise die-off from more waste like ammonia and nitrite. Even then you coul probably buy some ready made SW.

Hope all goes well with your new purchase dude! New tanks are always exciting.

 

[demonmagus]

thanks - not sure about the containers - hoping the seller has a few lol


I hope I can get the RO unit up and running pretty soon - trying to convince people that I can pierce a water pipe is prety hard though

 

[Mr Miagi]

Dont know about in the UK, but I just have a tap which still allows water into the washing machine, but at the turn of a tap it turns on my RO unit, so no need to pierce any lines, just remove the washing machine line, attahc the adaptor, screw in both RO unit and washing machine lines and our done! ANyone in the UK have this adaption? I spose its a little hard considering some of your washing machines are in the kitchen!

 

[Matthew5664]

The washing Maech have the conection you are on about. You just need a Y spliter on it.

 

[SkiFletch]

Towels... Lots of towels

 

[AK77]

The best option by far is just getting a washing machine y-splitter as someone already mentioned. Then all you do is attach an adapter to that which will reduce the diameter to 1/4" or whatever size piping your RO unit uses. Its what I did with mine and I had no spillages whatsoever. Just remember to turn the stopcocks off before disconnecting the washing machine... and make sure its the cold feed... not the hot lol.

Then you can either plumb the waste pipe into the normal household waste pipe, or run the tube somewhere to collect to use on other things.

 

[demonmagus]

I'll look into that

 

[AK77]

Splitter

Adapter

Also you might need these too if the RO unit doesn't already come with them.....

TDS Meter

Pressure Gauge

 

[demonmagus]

thanks

 

[demonmagus]

OK, the tank apparently has a noisy sump - any of you guys know how to stop this - he says he has tried to fix it but it still makes noise - so would foam on the cabinet or w/e help?

 

[SkiFletch]

Depends on where the noise is coming from. It probably can be fixed with a tweak here or there...

 

[norite]

I have plenty of 15 liter plastic containers that I need to get shot of, if you're interested...I'm in Darlington. They only ever contained vegetable oil, and they have snap on lids so are nice and secure. They're perfect for storing RO water, seawater, water changes, etc. and will stack when empty.

I run my car on used vegetable oil, and the place I get it from doesn't want the buckets back... B)