- I'm Thomas,
and we're about to get hands-on
with the Aquamaxx DTH-1 Dosing Tube Holder.
If you've been after a flexible, customizable,
magnetically-mounted dosing tube holder
that can support up to five dosing lines
and is also surprisingly affordable,
now hold on your socks.
Well, not actually like,
this, you don't have to bring filter sock,
this has nothing, I realize now
this was for the pun I was making,
but this could get confusing and I don't want you to think
Okay, let's just move on.
Dosing pumps have become so much more prevalent
and affordable that most modern reefers will use them
for automatically dosing their major elements
like alkalinity and calcium,
and often times nutritional additives
and trace elements as well.
But all of those dosing tubes have to go somewhere,
and not all reefers have tricked-out sumps
that come with dosing tube holders built right in.
Heck, some of us are using all-in-one style tanks
that don't even have a sump.
So for those reefers that need an alternative option to
keep their dosing tubes firmly in place
and neatly organized, Aquamaxx answered the call
with their DTH-1 Dosing Tube Holder.
It's compact and uses strong neodymium magnets
encased in acrylic, to firmly hold up to five dosing lines.
Yep. Five.
It includes two different types of connectors
to match up perfectly with your preferred type of tubing,
which makes it a great option
for not just your dosing tubes, but also your ATO
if it just so happens to sit above your return pump.
And the thing about it
that I might actually love the most, is the fact that
even though it has all those features built in,
it is still one of the most affordable magnetically-mounted
dosing tube holders that I've personally seen,
which just adds to its uniqueness.
In the box you'll find the DTH-1 Magnetic Mount,
a set of five threaded barbed adapters
for quarter inch tubing,
a set of five threaded push connectors
for quarter inch tubing,
as well as a set of five threaded nuts.
And the Installation Guide.
The DTH-1 is quite small
at roughly four inches by one and a half inches
by two inches thick,
and the magnetic mount has enough strength to hold firm
onto panels up to half an inch thick
while using a supple and grippy O-ring
just to make sure it stays where you want it to,
whether that's the back of your all-in-one,
in your sump, or even the back panel of your 40 breeder.
While I'm more accustomed to seeing dosing tube holders
that hold maybe three or four dosing lines,
the Aquamaxx DTH-1 holds five.
And instead of the typical hole
with a screw to lock things down,
they've included a set of five barbed fittings
for flexible nylon or silicone tubing,
as well as a set of five push connect fittings
for semi rigid tubing like RODI tubing.
So that way you can use whatever works best
for your particular needs.
You can also mix and match between them
so that you can use typical silicone tubing
for your dosing, and then say,
push connect fittings for your auto top off line.
Putting it all together is also really simple.
All of the barbed and push connect fittings are threaded
and also include a nut.
Slide The fitting you want
into the holes with the connectors facing upwards,
then thread the nut onto the back, and you're done.
Now, when it comes to placement
it's pretty important to consider what it is you're dosing
and where you'd like it to be dosed.
For example,
you don't really want to dose
your nutritional additives like aminos
in or before your skimmer chamber,
and you probably don't want your alkalinity supplement
going into a slow-flowing refugium area.
Personally, I like to have my dosing happen
in or near the return section.
That way none of my filtration elements
will have a chance to interact with the supplements
before they go into the tank.
I can also have my ATO line in the holder as well,
if it's sitting above the return section.
To make sure things are incorporated into the water quickly
and don't precipitate, I definitely recommend adding a small
and inexpensive circulation pump below the dosing lines.
It'll disperse those additives quickly and effectively,
and then your return pump will deliver them
to the display tank.
If you've got an all-in-one system,
the DTH is definitely small enough to fit
behind the filtration panel
on many different makes and models,
just aim for the chamber where the flow is most turbulent,
or where you can sneak in
that circulation pump I was talking about.
On standard aquariums with hang-on gear,
placing it over top of a circulation pump in the display
is usually the way to go.
Regardless of what type of tank you have
and where do you need to place those dosing lines,
having a solid magnetic mount
that you can customize to your specific needs
that doesn't break the bank
is bound to match many a reefing mantra,
and if it just so happens to match yours,
you can pick one up for yourself
by clicking right here.