How do you get water in your topoff?

[chark]

I keep my topoff water in the stand. It is hard to access and get water in. I have to pull it out to get the water in. Do you have another way to get the water in the reservoir without spilling?

[+Capt. Obvious]

long funnel or a small pump and hose

[mFrame]

I use square 5g containers. I just swap them out, full for empty, the handles on top help quite a bit.

[+Capt. Obvious]

I use square 5g containers. I just swap them out, full for empty, the handles on top help quite a bit.

I do the same, but I believe he may have some space constraints

[+brian.srock]

I use a 5 gallon tall glass tank and can slip my 5 gallon jug tip on the ledge. When I get halfway I can just pull on the tank tilting it in order to empty my jug.

[+etannert]

Siphon, a la water change. I put the 5gal bucket on a chair so that it's higher than the ATO reservoir.

[+Capt. Obvious]

And ATO taste better than water change water

[+etannert]

LOL true dat.

[George Monnat Jr]

And ATO taste better than water change water

Not when it's kalkwasser.

[+Capt. Obvious]

Touché sir

[victoly]

And ATO taste better than water change water

Mine tastes like a fine wine.

[jestep]

I use the blue water bottles for my top off, like the ones you see on the top of the water cooler / dispensers. I pour them into a 10 gallon Brute in my cabinet. They make it way easier to pour compared to the square jugs.

[Benny]

I siphon into a 10g tank I use as a reservoir, it lives under the 20g refugium.

[Wade]

I keep mine in a 7 gallon blue water container in the basement directly below the tank and run the tubing through the floor. My water making station is down there too so no lugging water.

[Rjohn]

I keep mine in a 7 gallon blue water container in the basement directly below the tank and run the tubing through the floor. My water making station is down there too so no lugging water.

I do wish we had basements in Texas. In my whole life, I have only seen two houses in Texas that had basements.

[Rjohn]

I keep my reservois water in a 5 gallon Lowes bucket under that table next to my tank. My wife has elected to take on the project of finding a something to either put the bucket in or dressing up some other type of container. She does like the gray Lowes bucket better than the flourescent orange Home Depot bucket but feels certain that improvement can be made.

[victoly]

I keep mine in a 7 gallon blue water container in the basement directly below the tank and run the tubing through the floor. My water making station is down there too so no lugging water.

I do wish we had basements in Texas. In my whole life, I have only seen two houses in Texas that had basements.

Limestone and groundwater make it verrrry tricky.

[George Monnat Jr]

I keep my reservois water in a 5 gallon Lowes bucket under that table next to my tank. My wife has elected to take on the project of finding a something to either put the bucket in or dressing up some other type of container. She does like the gray Lowes bucket better than the flourescent orange Home Depot bucket but feels certain that improvement can be made.

My wife insists that I get cabinets made to hide all of the aquarium stuff but then complains that I'm spending too much (which is true).

[+Capt. Obvious]

I keep my reservois water in a 5 gallon Lowes bucket under that table next to my tank. My wife has elected to take on the project of finding a something to either put the bucket in or dressing up some other type of container. She does like the gray Lowes bucket better than the flourescent orange Home Depot bucket but feels certain that improvement can be made.

My wife insists that I get cabinets made to hide all of the aquarium stuff but then complains that I'm spending too much (which is true).

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[victoly]

I keep my reservois water in a 5 gallon Lowes bucket under that table next to my tank. My wife has elected to take on the project of finding a something to either put the bucket in or dressing up some other type of container. She does like the gray Lowes bucket better than the flourescent orange Home Depot bucket but feels certain that improvement can be made.

My wife insists that I get cabinets made to hide all of the aquarium stuff but then complains that I'm spending too much (which is true).

^ this

Turn the "hobby" into an "investment" by "investing" in corals you can frag to "offset the costs" of the "hobby"

[+Capt. Obvious]

"It is 'revenue neutral' "- Paul Ryan

[FarmerTy]

I ran my RO/DI line directly into the container with a stop valve on the line and a float valve in the container. When the top-off water gets low, I open up the stop valve and let it fill up. The float valve will stop it if I forget to turn the water back off. No more buckets or filling up the top-off container.

The stop valve is a must as otherwise your container will automatically fill up each time your top-off turns on. Those short periods of refill will get you the dirtiest water as the initial water coming out of your RO/DI unit is typically dirtier than if it is ran for a bit. Hence why I won't refill the container until it is almost empty.

-Ty

[Benny]

"Hobby, Investment" in a perfect world.

[+Jakedoza]

I have a 55gal drum that I keep filled with RO/DI. There is a pump with a hose that runs from that through the wall to my ATO tank..

[chark]

Thanks for all the answers.

@mFrame - I have thought of doing that. Is the pump outside the 5 gal square containers? If so, would a maxijet work?