Here is a picture of my old setup. Ugly but effective for dosing.
I know this is a bad picture but you can see how ugly it is to have a bucket sitting ontop of my tank. To not have it ontop of your tank you have to options:
- Put it otop of your sump
- Dose it with a pump
First you need to know how an aqualifter works. One of the two red outlets sucks water or other liquid in well the other pushes it out. So all you need is a little airline tubing and you are good to go
Here is a nice diagram (photo credit: smarcus101 on photobucket)
NOTE: I don't use a powerhead to mix the kalk.
So I put the bucket of kalk under the tank, and connected airline tubing from the bucket to the pump and some to the output where the water would flow to. See PIC
Then I put the output all the way up to the display tank where I wanted the kalk to drip. I also added a flow control valve to limit flow (remember: Kalk needs to be dripped slowly!)
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Finlay I positioned the end where I wanted the Kalk to dripClose up
Finlay I plugged it in and it worked beautifully: all the equipment and buckets were under my tank closed away in my stand, while the kalk was pumped up unobtrusively. Once in install my sump I will use an aqualifter pump topoff water into my sump when a float valve trips (this is called an ATO or Automatic Top Off). But that is another post ;)
Here is one final shot of the setup under my tank:
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