Hi everyone and welcome to my channel Aqua Splendor my name is Nicolas Marion
and this is my review for the dosing pump Jebao DP-4
I think this is the best dosing pump you can have for your aquarium
and you wonder like why is the best it's the best because the price is so low
compared to all other brand so just put like in perspective this DP 4
dosing pump is 80 bucks let me repeat that
Just to compare to other brand like Ecotech Versa Utility Pump,
the Neptune DŌS, the GHL doser,
the Kamoer, the bubble magus, the Neptune and there's other brand but
in general they cost like two hundred three hundred fifty dollars us and
this one is like 80$ so it's not the most like the best quality of
of all the pump but it does the job I have this for like two years I think so
I can see safely like it I can do a review like over a long period of time I
mostly used like one specific one and sometime two, the 2 others I don't really
use them because I don't really need in my case but for 80 bucks okay if that
Fail you can buy another one you still make your money and if the
second one fail you can buy a third one I still make even so
because if the price is so good it's hard to beat that pump, it doesn't mean
like I said it's like the best quality but it does the job, I never
had like any problem I know sometimes some user reports some
problem for the pump fail or whatever, it's like any electronic product
they always have some of them fail but it's simple first and it does
the job so if you never have a Dosing pump ever so what it does is you
have like a container dosing the like in my cases like calcium for like a
reef aquarium you can have like I use the alkinity from Red Sea you can have a
Tropic Marine also and if you have like a freshwater you can use like the
Flourish Advance of seachem, the excel or like the Iron
stuff like that so you can use fresh water also and for 80 dollars you can find
it like an Amazon I think it's the less expensive option by like really far so
you can put the liquid or the powder and mix it with water and you have the liquid
So what it does it will just pump all along the air tubing
it goes in, It shouldn't be here and actually I can just show a demonstration
I'm gonna just manually do it and this is where the other end of this you here
so I'm just gonna do manually it will dose all the liquid that you cannot see because it's out of frame
so it will all dose the liquid inside of that dosing container and just a
throw away in the other aquarium which is actually my alkalinity and shouldn't
probably not do that it's not just water yeah lets stop and it's all it dose
example so if you're in a reef aquarium you often need to have like the alkalinity
the calcium, the magnesium the fourth one is mostly for like supplement
a mix of a bunch of things.
I do not recommend to use at any
dosing pump or auto top off except if it said specifically you can
do auto top off with dosing pump but I do never recommend dosing with dosing
pump the water evaporation with that because it will just burn the pump
over time so it's really that simple it's not Wi-Fi you have like
another version it's like a I think 40$ something the Jebao Wi-Fi 3.4
something like that and it's way way smaller like it's like the same
length and it's like that width I don't need honestly in the Wi-Fi I
just I just use the screen over there. So what is a dosing pump? I'm gonna show you
I'm gonna open one and it's not honestly super easy to to remove but sometimes
you have to for the camera, alright so this is the inside of the dosing pump
it's really that simple and all it does you have the
needle over here and it will just spin, spin I'm gonna just select this one and
it will just spin like that you cannot really see correctly but it's
spin the thing so it will spin inside of this and I'm just gonna put it back and
there we go and all the liquid goes in I think is I
think it's like this this is the IN and this is the OUT so all the liquid that
goes in will go out of this one so you can see it does that huh you can hear
like it's not it's not like super silent sometimes all the the pump does like a
different kind of sound so it's not the most silent dosing pump but I don't
really care honestly I put it like
so if you're creative you can make like a track sound for music for interstellar
maybe so it's not like the most silent pump, I use it like for like 10
minutes or something like that like everyday most of the time like I'm
I'm working so I cannot hear it so what you can do with that pump you
can like just use it manually like this and you can do a correction for each
pump you can do a calibration you can set the date and time
so today's 2018 October the time yes yes and there we go and you can set program
and this is where it gets really interesting so we can select like on
this one is there is like four pump you can see this like 8 pump so what you can
do behind you can just link another one if
you like you need like more pump is 4 is not enough for you you can buy like
another one and just link it just on the back like that so I'm gonna select like
this one like this so per day I just dose one time you can set it like for 24
per day and then interval well so you can set every week if you want just one
dosing every week or just every day like this is like every day this is the
quantity that you can you can put the dosing or the liquid sorry so for my
I test like a lot, I test my aquarium do a lot of tests to make sure
like what is the best zone for me so this is depend on each aquarium
on each person so it's up to you to make sure like you don't overdose or under
dose the stuff so it takes like during like a week, test every day your
aquarium and eventually you find like the sweet spot so for me it was like 31ml
but depending if I remove like corals
in my aquarium and might need to lower this or if I add some other corals I might
need like to just correct this number and this is the dosing time and it's at 12pm
so every day it will just put 31 milliliters of the liquid that is inside
of this which is the alkalinity for me and that's it so as you can
see it's really simple, this is the back it's not like the the best
quality for a dosing pump but I mean 80 bucks it's so inexpensive like you
can when I talk about like quality is like you can see if I'm not really
forcing but wait yeah it open a little bit easy it feel honestly just a little
but cheap but it work let's put that way for me it work I never I never had any
problem so if you're using that I recommend tube like this is what
I use, I bought it on the reefsupplies.ca and it worked really
fantastic it's really like flexible and I've never really had issued directly
because of that but over time you can see there's like a little Moist
whatever it is so I may need to clean the tube because there's like this
it looks like a little bit dirty if you can just focus anyway and if you're
about to put the the end of the air tube I'm gonna just pick something right so this
is what I used to just hold on the aquarium
what happens like and just put that over like this so just
hold and it's just screw a little bit tight but not too tight and I was doing like so
so what happened is over time, i don't know if you can see, okay they just pretend that
there's like water over here so over time the tube was inside of the water
and you can see the air tubing doesn't look really nice and the inside of the tube
there's like a calcification I think we say and a the inside of it was really
hard it's like it wasn't soft as this tube like this over that part like all
the end of the tube well is really rigid like really tough so if your dose
your stuff make sure it's like over the aquarium like this and it's just dip
inside of the aquarium the other problem that you can have like when it's like
inside of the of the water it can siphon back
if the pump is like it in certain height the water so you can
risk to siphon your stuff so this is something like a learn over the time
and yeah I'm just sharing the my experience so this is basically like my
review for the pump it worked well never had any trouble with that I recommend to
anyone you can buy one pump two pump three pump and you still have your money back
it even it fell so I really enjoyed this I'm gonna make like
a another video just for the calibration and set that like to be a little bit
more like specific and that's pretty much it and if you're lazy you can maybe
use this has a dosing and just connect to the aquarium like this
and just drink chocolate really good but I'm not going to because it's disgusting
it was inside of my aquarium but this is an idea for the lazy people and voila I
hope that cover pretty much everything and this was just one take. I hope you enjoy
this video and thank you for watching and I will see you in the next video.