Helium_Junkie
Fishaholic
I have set up a groovy way to change the water in my tank 
I bought:
1 x large 50litre rubbish bin (no lid) from B&Q @ £3 ish
1 x 15metre hose with nozzle @ £10
1 x Eheim 1250 pump that I already had in a watercooling setup for my PC
2 x 10 litre buckets (already had for water chnages before)
1 x Syphon
1 x length of tubing which fits the pump
What we do:
Fill the rubbish bin with water to approx 30litres (170 litre tank so this is 20%ish i think)
Add dechlorinator stuff and stir slightly
While that stuff works we clean the gravel with the siphon - water running into the buckets. 2 of these means as one gets full the other is used and someone empties first bucket.
3 Buckets later we kill the siphon and sometimes clean the filter at this stage - hence siphoning into a bucket. Also its safer in case a fishie gets sucked up the tube Another reason is that it allows accurate measuring of how much water has been taken out.
Turn pump on
Voila, pre-treated water is pumped up the tube and into the tank
I'll get a pic of the setup when I get my camera back
When I am feeling lazy I have several lengths of reaaally thin tubing that I hook onto decorations in the tank and use to siphon water without cleaning.
They are real slow, but no risk of fish suck-ups, the fish have gotten close before and had no trouble. Means I can drain into the bucket while I go do something else, or just sit down
-Matt
I bought:
1 x large 50litre rubbish bin (no lid) from B&Q @ £3 ish
1 x 15metre hose with nozzle @ £10
1 x Eheim 1250 pump that I already had in a watercooling setup for my PC
2 x 10 litre buckets (already had for water chnages before)
1 x Syphon
1 x length of tubing which fits the pump
What we do:
Fill the rubbish bin with water to approx 30litres (170 litre tank so this is 20%ish i think)
Add dechlorinator stuff and stir slightly
While that stuff works we clean the gravel with the siphon - water running into the buckets. 2 of these means as one gets full the other is used and someone empties first bucket.
3 Buckets later we kill the siphon and sometimes clean the filter at this stage - hence siphoning into a bucket. Also its safer in case a fishie gets sucked up the tube
Another reason is that it allows accurate measuring of how much water has been taken out.Turn pump on
Voila, pre-treated water is pumped up the tube and into the tank
I'll get a pic of the setup when I get my camera back
When I am feeling lazy I have several lengths of reaaally thin tubing that I hook onto decorations in the tank and use to siphon water without cleaning.
They are real slow, but no risk of fish suck-ups, the fish have gotten close before and had no trouble. Means I can drain into the bucket while I go do something else, or just sit down
-Matt
