如果您在一周之外的任何东西都在礁石上划定，那么您已经知道礁石坦克的每个区域可以增长多少海洋生物，以及它可以传播的速度。It’s for this reason that every part of all pumps, skimmers, and reactors needs to be regularly cleaned because everything from feather dusters to sponges and even snails can ‘biofoul’ every component that is in contact with ‘live water’ from an established reef tanks.
Dosing pumps have rapidly spread in popularity and while they were initially used primarily to dose precise amounts of chemically important additives, their applications have spread far beyond their original purpose. Nowadays reefers are using dosing pumps for all kinds of things including feeding calcium reactors, automatic water changes, and supplying precise amounts of water volume to be sampled by automatic testing machines such as the Alkatronic, KH Keeper, Trident and KH Director.
但是，在与礁石制造商的讨论中，我们对使用蠕动的剂量泵的讨论使我们感到惊讶的一件事是，用于运输这种活着的海水的一件事是，几乎没有一个人认为在这些给药泵的进气口上使用任何类型的预滤器。manbetx2.0ios下载It doesn’t take more than a shred of imagination to picture how easily biofouling organisms will start to grow within the tubing of dosing pumps used in this way, not to mention all the detritus and debris which will inevitably be drawn into a dosing pump pulling from live aquarium water.
We know that some of the fancy auto testing machines comes with some kind of prefilters for the water sampling intake but it’s really surprising to us that the practice isn’t common knowledge. It only takes only little piece of debris to puncture a hose, clog the rollers, and over time the biofilm alone will greatly skew the accuracy of these live water dosing pumps, altogether reducing their output.
We’ve been using dosers like the Ecotech Marine Versa since they came out and in one case where the peristaltic pump is used to feed a calcium reactor we use a readily available automotive inline fuel filter as a cheap but effective micro-prefilter to prevent premature deterioration of its accuracy and precision. At only一包8到12个内联滤波器的$ 10这是一种廉价但非常必要的预防措施，可保护管道的完整性与活水接触并保护整体剂量泵。manbetx2.0ios下载
不用说，如果您最终走这条路线，请确保在没有任何内部或外部金属零件的情况下选择一个燃油滤清器，则有很多由简单的塑料外壳和纸微米过滤器制成的选项。同样，大多数燃料过滤器的直径可能会比典型的小型或平均乙烯基或硅胶管大一点，但这并不需要太多才能使事情变得工作。
As productive reviewers of reef aquarium devices and technology we are constantly thinking about how various reef gear can fail, and simply allowing dosing pumps to draw ‘raw’ seawater from a reef tank is a recipe for breakdown. We have no doubt that many reefers have independently concocted various ways to minimize gunk and detritus getting sucked up by the intakes of their dosing pumps but this problem has already been solved for other applications and at around a dollar a piece, inline fuel filters add the kind of piece of mind against preventable breakdown which is a rare value in an otherwise pretty expensive hobby.
