Fish Tank Pump

[ct7331]

Hey

I'm looking for a pump, that can help me pump water back into my tank from a bucket. I used to use a pipe and siphon the water from the bucket into the tank, however today I dropped the bucket and well, you can imagine the mess So now im looking for a pump to pump the water from the bucket from ground level into the tank above. Any ideas?

ct7331

 

[raptorrex]

Hey

I'm looking for a pump, that can help me pump water back into my tank from a bucket. I used to use a pipe and siphon the water from the bucket into the tank, however today I dropped the bucket and well, you can imagine the mess So now im looking for a pump to pump the water from the bucket from ground level into the tank above. Any ideas?

ct7331

i pour it in from the bucket. if you have one tank, not more than 80 gallons, the few minutes and little effort it takes is, not much to do, i find. but i have seen little pumps to be fitted to electric drills, that would do the job.

i see them most often at the local £1 shop. NO SERIOUSLY i do.

 

[onebto]

you can get jabsco pumps from marine chandlers but they are quiet powerful and expensive cant think of anything on the market pump wise although I have seen purpose made set ups for removing and replacing water in tanks in an aquarium on line shop if I find the link ill post it. Again I think it was reasonable expensive.

 

[Davo86]

can you not use a hose pipe to fill it back up?

 

[ct7331]

Welll its tropical so im adding warm water back in to the tank.

I did siphon it with a pipe, but thats when the bucket fell over. I dont want to risk it again as the water did land on a lot of exspensive electricals and furniture.

 

[Davo86]

Welll its tropical so im adding warm water back in to the tank.

I did siphon it with a pipe, but thats when the bucket fell over. I dont want to risk it again as the water did land on a lot of exspensive electricals and furniture.

as long as you don't go over 30% you are ok to add cold water, I use the outdoor hose with all of my water changes even atm when its barely 6C outside

if your looking for a pump however then a small water feature pump such as a bermuda 1100 or Oase Neptune 1000 would be suitable

 

[raptorrex]

I'm with Davo86 on the cold water change i think the fish, seem, to enjoy it!

don't worry ct7331, i spent close to £100 on a digital thermometer, to ensure my water went in at the correct temperature. now i have two, and never use them!!
you hear a lot about "consistency" when you start this hobby. and its true, when you start off, keeping everything the same makes it simpler to identify a problem. but as you gain experience, you will find that, things are a bit more complicated. in nature only a very few fish would experience a, virtually, stable environment. (perhaps the deeper lake and marine) most of the others would experience wide variation of both temperature and water current, never mind ph and the rest. so i for instance, do my 25-30% water changes with cold water. and i, virtually, throw it in! both must seem odd to you. but in my experience, both work perfectly well.

 

[ct7331]

Oh ok, I think i will just do it with cold water then. Although as the tank is upstairs, I will need to pump the water somehow from a bucket

 

[raptorrex]

Oh ok, I think i will just do it with cold water then. Although as the tank is upstairs, I will need to pump the water somehow from a bucket

do you not have any taps upstairs, A bath?

 

[ct7331]

Yeah, maybe im just looking past the obvious here. I can connect a hose line to the tap

 

[BINKSY]

And also you can siphon the water from the tank using a long hose into your bath maybe, as long as it is lower than the base of the tank it should be good to go.


Cheers Gordon.

 

[Schmill]

Hosepipe is by far the easiest method, just make sure you add the dechlor to the tank first. If you want to use the bucket then you can probably use a "Water Butt Pump" (a lot more innocent than it may sound! ), they usually connect to a hose and get sat in the bottom of a water butt to pump water to your garden. To be honest though when I looked they are around 60-70 pounds, and in the end I bought a 2nd hand cannister filter, removed all the media, and use that to pump water OUT of my tank

 

[waterdrop]

If the faucet in the upstairs bath doesn't fit a hosepipe, there are companies that make adapters for lots of types of faucets. If its a mixing tap and you don't have a metal leaching problem with your hot-water system, then you don't have to use just cold if you want to do one of the larger percentage water changes for some reason.

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