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Tunze Osmolator Nano Automatic Freshwater Topoff.

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One of the major factors that has been affecting this aquariums stability is that it evaporates more water than I expected. For the past few weeks it seems that my daily practices included topping of freshwater during the morning hours before work and topping of more freshwater during the evening hours after work. So one of my primary goals in keeping this aquarium is water parameter stability. So I just received my Tunze Osmolator Nano that I ordered from Premium Aquatics. I went back and fourth between my decision of ordering this unit or the regular Tunze Osmolator Universal since the latter has the primary optical sensor and a secondary float sensor. But from reading this unit only doses water for a maximum of 1.8 minutes, so combined with only filling the reservoir with a limited amount of water I figured everything would be fine.


Since this aquarium is located in my dinning room my primary concern is to keep the misses happy by not making it an eye soar of tubing and cables. But I'm still aiming to have the equipment as accessible as possible. So I'm using 3M Command Strips rated for 16 lbs. to mount equipment and cable housing guide to hide cables and tubes when possible.











For the Freshwater Reservoir I am utilizing one of the 2.2 gallon Nutri-Seawater containers. I am searching for a nice wicker basket as to place the container in but for now it remains a little eye soar. The water cable and power cable for the pump are housed within a 3M Cable Guide.







The float switch which activates the unit is located in the far right chamber as recommended by Tunze. It was installed with the magnets that were included with the unit. Also the output of the water house is being aimed at the center baffles were there is a good amount of flow to mix the freshwater into the saltwater and then it passes by the heater to bring the temperature to the right level.



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  1. melev's Avatar
    Very nice blog. Also, I like your binary copyrights. I'm a big fan of automatic top off, and this is even more important on small tanks like yours. I used to keep 5g next to my 29g which lasted 7 days.
  2. B1N4RY's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by melev
    Very nice blog. Also, I like your binary copyrights. I'm a big fan of automatic top off, and this is even more important on small tanks like yours. I used to keep 5g next to my 29g which lasted 7 days.
    Thank you, I came up with the copyright idea just this evening and thought well that is cool. The key that I am aiming for is stability. Plus I was getting tired filling up cups of water and refilling the aquarium both morning and night.