Water Change

[Pkn]

Just wondering what do u guys use to put the water in the fish tank instead of lifting the bucket also wonder what kind of bucket people use for big tanks

 

[Tolak]

Hoses all the way, tap water near tank temperature adding dechlorinator on the fly. The only thing I use buckets for are filter cleaning & fry tanks. If you want to call anything a regular use bucket it would be the 32 gallon trash can I drain tanks into, this has a pump with a float switch & hose to drain.

 

[Pkn]

Hoses all the way, tap water near tank temperature adding dechlorinator on the fly. The only thing I use buckets for are filter cleaning & fry tanks. If you want to call anything a regular use bucket it would be the 32 gallon trash can I drain tanks into, this has a pump with a float switch & hose to drain.

Hmm if u hoses all the way what about dechlorine? But my outside hoses only have cold water

 

[arobinson1984]

Do u have any mixer taps in your house? If so u can fill from there using hose.

When using hose to fill it is best to add enough dechlor for your whole tank to the tank itself before adding the new water

Andy

 

[fatheadminnow]

Do u have any mixer taps in your house? If so u can fill from there using hose.

When using hose to fill it is best to add enough dechlor for your whole tank to the tank itself before adding the new water

Andy

Either way.

If you add dechlor to the tank, make sure to add enough to treat the entire tank.

But, which is what I do, you can just add the dechlor to the new water before adding it to the tank. This also saves on money because you are not using a lot of dechlor every time you do a water change.

-FHM

 

[meguro]

10 litre bucket ftw

 

[Pkn]

10 litre bucket ftw

Ty eveyone I do have a mixer tap IN my house but how would plug my hoses there also any thing that can pump water from the bucket up to the tank?

 

[arobinson1984]

You would need a mixer tap connecter. If you are in Uk then you can get them from b&q, if not then just go to your local hardware store and you should be able to get one.

Then you can connect hose straight to tap, add enough dechlor for the entire tank straight into the tank first then fill up with water using the hose making sure your match the temperature as closely as you can

Andy

 

[Bluefintuna]

10 litre bucket and a gravel vac

 

[Pkn]

10 litre bucket and a gravel vac

TY guys Ty for info xd Im using a 20+litre bucket xd hmm won't u use slot of dechorine thinge btw I saw neon tre... Do I need a hiding place for them if buy them if so what kind of hissing place should I get

 

[OldMan47]

To connect to a freshwater mixer, use the adapter that you might use for a water bed. The ones for aquariums are just too darned expensive, especially since they are the same thing. You remove the aerator in the mixer and install the adapter in its place. I have a full hose kit, similar to a python but another brand, that sits with my fish supplies while I use a 20 litre bucket to do my water changes. Removing the aerator and installing the adapter just doesn't save me enough work to be worth using it instead of the bucket.

 

[Tolak]

10 litre bucket ftw

Grab your bucket & come on over, I'll have you ready for the Olympic weight lifting team in no time!

 

[LauraFrog]

Try an auto store... I found a siphon pump in there. I have no idea what it's meant to do regarding cars, but it sure works for pumping water into the tank from a bucket. It's really, really slow (compared to tipping the bucket) so if I have to lift the bucket a long way (I had to put some tanks up really high to save space) I half fill the buckets. Fiddly, but nothing on operating a hand held squeeze and release pump for half an hour. I only use the aforementioned pump doing water changes on my betta tanks, which are converted 2 gallon jars, and because of the round tops are very easy to slip the bucket off and drench myself and anything nearby. Which happens to include my electric piano, computer, 2 powerpoints, and generally a few hours worth of homework. (The latter, I wouldn't mind having a good excuse... 'my fish ate it?!')

But yeah... this doover is basically a red plastic bulb with two lengths of tubing coming off it. There are valves in each one. You squeeze the bulb, the air goes out, you let it go and because one of the valves sucks closed, it sucks in water. Then you keep squeezing it and letting it go. By using it in reverse both valves stay open and you can use it like a regular length of tubing to siphon water out of the tank to a bucket below. And I got it from an auto store. Go figure.

 

[Macko1968]

An Eheim 1000 pump plus a lenth of Eheim tubing. Fill 4 x 5 gallon buckets with dechlor water & move the pump from bucket to bucket as they empty.

 

[Bobtastic]

I've toyed with the idea of getting hold of/DIY'ing a Python to allow me to drain water from the tank straight into the kitchen sink (care of the mixer tap) and then fill it back up again without having to lift a bucket! Tho I am a little concerned about accidentally suck up a fish! And not using enough dechlorinator...

I only have a 110litre tank atm so I alright using my 10litre buckets for now, but if we get a 240litre tank I don't like the idea of having to lug more than twice the number of buckets of water around!