Hoses?

[dalethewhale]

I've read alot about people using hoses to fill their tanks on here recently... can anyone expain how you do it? It sounds stupid but I was wondering how people do it from bathroom taps? can you only use specific taps or something or do you need a speciall attachment and special hose? I would love to be able to do it, but im not sure i can!
If anyone can clear this up for me, thanks

 

[micko]

There are tap connectors that you fit on to the hose. Unless you have a mixer tap I would use it on your shower so you can get a temp of water near equal to the water in your tank.

 

[holidayinn]

Try your local DIY store for attachments that will fit on the tap head.

 

[mbeer21]

I used our normal garden hose from outside to fill up my tank... but I guess not everyone has their fish tank so close to the back door
This might be what others use, or something like it http/www.pythonproducts.com/aqprod.html

 

[willowstwin]

I dont have that luxury... My setup it in my bedroom, with no upstairs bathroom, which means lugging 10 litre buckets at a time from the bathroom, through the kitchen, through the living room, up the stairs and into my room >.< NIGHTMARE lol

 

[fluttermoth]

I recently got a hose for refilling my tanks (my back was really starting to complain with 4 four-foot, one three foot and an Edge to do) and it's the best thing I have ever done in my whole history of fishkeeping!

Some taps are properly threaded to take a hose, but most need some kind of adaptor that fits over your tap with a rubber washer. They're called 'hosepipe tap adaptors' or something like that and are less than a fiver on ebay; I'm sure all DIY or gareden centres will have them too.
Then you just need some garden hose; that attaches to the adaptor with a screw ring thingy (technical term ) like an external filter hose. Get a longer peice of hose than you think you'll need; any spare can just be left coiled up and then you'll be set if you ever move your tank, or move house.

I don't have a mixer tap or a shower I can attach it to, so I have to just use the cold tap *sighs*, so I trickle the new water in quite slowly. That does mean that my water changes are actualy slower now than they were with buckets, but I don't mind that; getting rid of the bucket lugging is well worth it!

Do remember to swtich your filters off and to add enough dechlor for the whole tank before you start refilling.

 

[Confish]

i made one my self got all the part from wilkos was dead cheap got a tap adaptor then connected it to a y connector then hose to my tank that connected to my siphon.

when emptying the tank turn the tap on to get suction with both the y connector open then when it gets going turn the tap of and just siphon away.

to fill the tank up i just close one of the y connects valves so its just a straight hose again n fill the tank