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Heres pictures of my setup. Sorry for dealy, been CRAZY busy with school.

Here is the "holding" tank in there I have a powerhead and a heater to keep the water warm and circulated. In addition to those I have the powerhead that pumps to the tank connect to the pond tubing. That clear plastic tubing is connected to a maxi jet 900, and goes up to the tank. One thing I learned the hard way is that the hose CANNOT be in the tank water. When the pump turns off, it sucks water out of the display tank. I have it set up so it shoots in.

The Float Switches The white PVC are actually snail guards. If a snail happened to be on the float switch it could do so in a manner that would prevent the switch from turning on or off. The snail guard protects aganist that. Like I said there are two switches for safety. The water starts pumping when one float switch is low, and then turns off when it reaches its 'set' position. If that were to fail, the other switch, set slightly higher, would take off and turn the pump off.


Float Switches From Above This is just an arial view of the float switches on the back of the tank.

I purchased the float switches from www.autotopoff.com


Last edited by lil_mikey69 at 10-Oct-2004 22:09

cool thanks for the pics I might just add it to my new setup

IMO its one of the best things you can add to your tank.

Makes life much easier.

but not as easy as a float valve and an RO/DI unit

Meh, it took about 3 minutes to set up.

So I'm guessing they are both easy, but the RO/DI may be more efficient. Since I'm pretty sure you don't even have to fill a conatiner, it even does that for you too.

Im cofused about this. Do you just get a pump to pump up to that and then it is regulated by the float switch?

Yup. The powerhead in my case is plugged directly into the float switches. When the switches activate the powerhead is turned on and water pumped into the tank. When its full, the switches then turn off the powerhead.

That is something I will look into(yep this tank was supposed to be a cheap FO at one point. LOL