How do you do yours?

[Jae1525]

Currently in my 16 gal tank I just jug out the water into a bucket then add a bucket full of treated water back in.
All fine and dandy.

But with my 40gal its a bit more complicated.
I hook up a hose to my canister filters out line and pump out water. Still dandy.
Its gettin dechlorinated water back in that troubles me! I have to make up a bucket of water, right temp, dechlorinate it pour it in and repaet loads of times!!!!

Sumbody must have a better way of getting dechlorinated water into my tank without loads of trips to the sink!!??

 

[Helium_Junkie]

Get a long hose, and a shorter hose. Hook the long hose to the tap and the other end to a valve (you can get loads of valve style things from a DIY store). Run water into your bucket - now remember it has to be treated so you are limited by how big your bucket is, get a couple of buckets to speed things up. What is really handy is a bucket with a capacity marker inside, so you know exactly how much you are doing.

Fill bucket and treat water, then use the smaller tube to siphone water into the tank, or pour water in.
I dont know if siphons work when the source is lower than the tank...

Short version:
Get a hose.



As for temperature...
How do you do it now?

What you could do is get a big bucket, real big, and mount a heater in there, fill with water and add treatment and wait for it to heat up, then siphon water in, or get a small pump to put water in

Come to think of it, a pump would be the best way, you can get a cheapo pond pump which would do the job perfectly! Submerge in bottom of big bucket and have the outflow tube in your tank. Bonza!

 

[sunflower]

I have an automatic starter syphon the remove the water and a huge bowl that I used to treat water which I then tip back in via the filter (so as not to make a huge splosh!). The bown is easier to fill then messing about with the bucket.

 

[Jae1525]

Interesting!!

With temp I know if i let my hot tap run for a min anf fill my bucket 1/3 of the way with hot and then the rest with cold it gives me 24c!!

I just hate goin back and 2 to the dam kitchen to get water!

Edit. Syphons wont work when the source is on the ground because the preasure in the source and the force of gravity has to be greater than the object.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I use a gravel cleaner to syphon water into a bucket. I then either syphon or pour new water back (depending on the plant situation).

 

[cat.fish]

i syphon some out. then do the same thing as jae and, CS said with the plant situation i cup my left hand on the surface of the water and pour the water onto my hand.

 

[Arfie]

I syphon out with gravel cleaner into one bucket and have a second bucket ready with treated clean water.

Then use a jug to pour water back into the tank via filter (Juwel recommend this way).

I dont know if siphons work when the source is lower than the tank...

No syphons work on gravity, so the out end of the syphon must be lower than the in end is (the lower it is , the faster it runs), you could of course raise the bucket to a higher level than the tank is and it should work then.

Arfie

 

[Helium_Junkie]

you could of course raise the bucket to a higher level than the tank is and it should work then.

But then you may as well just pour

I have a pond pump I think I may use with a medium sized plastic bin for water changes. Drop the pump into the bottom of the bin, fill with water from a hose, add treatment and raise temperature.

Is it necessary to raise the temperature? I would guess the temp to be around 20°c where 25°c is the temp of my tank, seeing as how you'd only be changing around 20% of the water would the cold water drop the temp that much?

So anyway, once waters in there just turn on the pump and it gets fed up to the tank!

So in short:

Hose -> Bin (Maybe 40 or 50litre capacity?
Treat
Turn on pump
Bin -> Tank

Gonna go buy a hose so I can try this method now

 

[Nidge]

I went and bought a 25 litre bin and that reduces the times you will have to refill, I change 75 liters in my large tank every week so thats three bin's of water, I add dechlorinater to each bin load.
Regarding the temp of the water i boil a kettle of water and add that to each bin aswell.

 

[Jae1525]

I think you are all not reading my orig post.

I just wondered if there was an easier way raether tahn trekin back and forth with a bucket for ages!
Nidge you got the best idea so far.

 

[Helium_Junkie]

I think you are all not reading my orig post.

I just wondered if there was an easier way raether tahn trekin back and forth with a bucket for ages!
Nidge you got the best idea so far.

What the heck?! How doesnt a hose help?!

The water comes to YOU that way.

But hey, if you think its a naff suggestion then try carrying a 75 litre bucket from the sink. And good luck pouring it in.

 

[Jae1525]

Sorry helium junkie! I ddint read your post fully!

Thats is certainly a good idea!

Here... have a treat

 

[Earthgirl]

Hi there!
I used to do the bucket birgade, until being 9 months prego made that stop quick. Now I have a system that runs on the same syphonig idea. It has a long tube that does the syphoning, but with a flick of a switch, it fills up the tank at the tap. Now do you think I can remeber the name of the do hicky? My mother is borrowing it because we share it. The "system" costs about $130 CDN though, but totally worth it!

 

[Jae1525]

Aghhh! 130!

A sound investment for a pregnant lady (congrats ) but for a lowly bum like me I would have to say its easier and cheaper to carry the bucket.

 

[Blusypder]

the cheap way is to, yep u guessed it, treck back and forth to the kitchen. come on its across ur house. i could under stand if u were preg. across the house is not that far.