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Aquarium drip cup

by fyngyrz

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When you have a salt water aquarium, there are times when you need to add chemicals or medication to it. There are (quite expensive) dosing systems that allow you to do it slowly – and slowly is generally a very good idea, because it's easy to shock fish and corals and so forth. But, you know, _expensive_. Here's a way to cut that cost to just a fraction of that of an automated dosing system.

The idea behind this is after you print the cup, you take it and file just the _very tip_ of that cone off so that you have just a tiny, tiny hole, and then you place it over a port in the lid of your aquarium, fill it with a mix of salt water from the aquarium and your chemical / medication, and let it drip in there slowly.

You can set the drip rate for the cup by how much of the tip of that cone you file off. Be _very_ conservative, it really doesn't take much at all to get a good drip going. It'll drip faster at first, then the rate will drop as the amount of fluid in the cup drops. You

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What you need to print this: Beginner Low confidence

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