How do you change your water?

[Alien_spawn]

I chose 'other' -

I use my gravel cleaner to act as the syphon and use it to syphon the water into buckets and then I use it to syphon the water back in, as well as to clean the gravel/sand of course!!

thats how I do it too!!

 

[Exiled]

I use a regular syphon and a bucket, to get water out.
Then I keep refilling an old 5 litre mineral water bottle and walk to and from the kitchen until the tank is full again.

Quite good exercise really.....

Ian.

Wow are you ever the perfect candidate for a Python water changing kit!!!
Forget the exercise, 480L tank? that's insanity! Get a Python--it's worth every last cent.

 

[Where the river goes]

Good ol' siphon and bucket method. I had considered getting a Python, but can't justify the cost when I would only end up using it on the 10 gallon. Maybe when I get more tanks

 

[suemack]

regular siphon and buckets lots of buckets......... was a bit of a shock when I got the 3ft tank just how many buckets ......... but I've got really good arm muscles now

sue

 

[Loboto-Me]

I voted regular syphon.... I figure my gravel vac is a syphoning device. I do the gravel vack and bucket deal too.... but then I only have a 29 gal. tank for now. I might reconsider when I finish paying off my 130 gal tank and get it set up.

Ummm... nope I won't consider it until i get a salty... as if that might happen anytime soon I can't imagine paying so much for a python when I can vac with my manual gravel vac, then have the water to fertilize my plants with.... not to mention the extra exercise I get hauling buckets (I need all the exercise I can get). Besides, I've been known to be frugal in one area in order to splurge in others

 

[akhtar]

GO JO, U TELL HIM

bucket for me, does a python not kill the bacteria (good), because the water is coming from the tap? and u cant dechlorinate it coz it goes straight into the tank?

can some1 explain

 

[snowyangel]

I voted other b/c i use about 3 of the methods mentioned, lol. I use the syphon and bucket for my bigger community tank, but then i use only the turky baster on my smaller fry tanks because the syphon would be too powerful and prob' suck half of them up.

 

[canyon_rayne]

For my bigger tank I use a syphon and my 10 gallon I use a bucket..

 

[Tempestuousfury]

I voted regular syphon for my tanks. I use the turkey baster for the bettas and for the fry in the bowls I've got set up.

 

[cutechic]

Regular siphon for me. No point in getting a Python for a 5 gallon!

 

[petitericeball]

i jsut use regular siphon

 

[lonelyneon]

...never heard of the python.. i used buckets at first but now i figured out how to use a siphon but its not practical.. i have a 10 gal tank so it takes no time at all to change the water

 

[HeatherSweetness]

I really need one of these pythons...I syphon the water into a 13 gallon trash can,haul it to the bathroom,lift it and dump it into the toilet,and fill and refill 2 one gallon jugs and haul water back and forth all day.

 

[freshmike]

Here is a link to what a python is.....don't mind the weird woman

Python

 

[smileandnod]

Hmmm, I see how it helps get the water out, but the dechlorinator I use has to be added to the tap water before adding to the tank.

I find getting the water back into the tank the hardest part.

Ian.