Need Small Float Valve

[EdKruzel]

Fellow Nano-ites,
My office JBJ Nano is up and running, corals are growing and the 150watt DE above it causes some fierce evaporation.

Where is the best place to find a small float valve to fit in the back of the JBJ?
It's a bit tight in there with a CPR BakPak and an extra Minijet 606 plumbed through the back.

I have a decorative shelf that runs along the top portion of the wall (same side as the tank is on) that I can place a reservoir of replacement water.

TIA,
Ed

[MadTownMax]

standard float switches should fit - check grainger.com for sizes - and make sure you get two, just in case one fails you have a back-up to stop the tank from overflowing.

If I may suggest - I just got a peristaltic pump for top-off, and it doses very slowly - this way you could have a top-off solution that will top-off at the same rate as your evaporation (say 1ml/minute), then turns-off if/when the level is high enough. That way, if things go wrong and a switch fails (they always do - I learned the hard way) things go wrong very slowly -

-Nick

[Carl_in_Florida]

Can you post a link to this peristaltic pump? I have never heard of them.

Carl

[ODOG]

www.floatswitches.net is a common source. real cheap too.

[Colefish]

www.autotopoff.com

[MadTownMax]

http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/product_view.asp?sku=7712042&cls=4438

this is the one that I got, bought from another RC'er for $150, I saw another one in the Selling Forum for $175 - or you can check on e-bay for peristaltic pump. Mine will pump from .002ml/minute - 12.3 ml/minute depending on the speed of the pump, and the size of tubing you use.

-Nick

[Carl_in_Florida]

Thanks for the link.

[MadTownMax]

here's the one in the for sale forum : http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=537811