I like big jugs and I can not lie, all you other reefs can’t deny!Ok i bought the gallon reagent kits from ABCreagents.com
Well after José had pointed out that air is the enemy of reagents I got to thinking, “how can I eliminate air from getting to the reagents?” So I a page for how a soda fountain machine works. The concentrated soda syrup is in a bag in a box. When the syrup is used the bag deflates and the syrup gets vacuumed out and air never touches the syrup until it’s mixed in the fountain machine.
After searching Amazon I found heavy duty plastic balloons. These are the same balloons you see used for decorations with roses or other balloons inside them. They are so strong it actually took compressed air to get them to expand.
I had to let them sit fully inflated for a week at 20” just to get them to stay expanded.
Then I purchased three 2mm stainless steel tubes. These are the draw straws.
I then took three 1 gallon jugs a drilled tiny breather holes near the top of the jug.
So after the ballon’s were expanded I deflated them and shoved them into the jugs and filled the balloons with the reagents
Next I drilled a small hole in the bottom plastic of my trident, this was to run the tubing down to the gallon jugs. Then I made a cheap shelf for the trident to sit on above the jugs.
Then I connected the tubes to the straws and primed the lines
The trident is currently calibrating so I’ll see how this works out and keep it updated.
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