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Oh that's easy. Timers, float switches and pumps LOL

One pump to pump out the old water, another one activated by a float switch inside your tank to pump water in from a makeup bucket. For your makeup water you would need a bucket, a motorized unit to dump salt in once the bucket is empty and another float switch to add water to the bucket after the salt was dumped in. Finally a timer to turn on the powerhead and heater.


Easy as pie LOL
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Where do I order one of these

can you stop it at any height? If so It would be cool for breaking in new bulbs!
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can you stop it at any height? If so It would be cool for breaking in new bulbs!
Yup it stops at any height, perfect for bulb acclimation :-)
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Oh that's easy. Timers, float switches and pumps LOL

One pump to pump out the old water, another one activated by a float switch inside your tank to pump water in from a makeup bucket. For your makeup water you would need a bucket, a motorized unit to dump salt in once the bucket is empty and another float switch to add water to the bucket after the salt was dumped in. Finally a timer to turn on the powerhead and heater.


Easy as pie LOL

hahaha - brilliant. Who needs humans??? Yay robots!!

Now, let's add on a way to do automatic water testing and adjustments based on the results that come back!
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hahaha - brilliant. Who needs humans??? Yay robots!!

Now, let's add on a way to do automatic water testing and adjustments based on the results that come back!
Not 100% sure but I think there is something made that does that already. Very handy LOL
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