How Do People Put Water Back In Tank After Water Change ?

[lee_essex]

never really know how to do it, to use a tube ive got to get the bucket above the tank.


how do other people do it ?


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[SJ2K]

Pour it in from the bucket, el-tippy o

 

[aaronnorth]

use a bucket to pour water back in, as my largest tank is only 180l.

 

[BINKSY]

i use a small pond pump with some garden hose on, i have an 80 littre tub that i fill the day before, once i emptied my tank enough i just plug in the pump and sit back and relax.

Cheers Gordon

 

[J1mbo]

pour in with the bucket

 

[jaycat]

Yep it's bucket for me too

 

[nicnak]

I just tip it in from the bucket,splish splosh!

All the stuff goes everywhere in the tanks but i just put them back if they move about

 

[tim1]

I take my bucket and pour it on my Bog Wood so that the water doesn't destroy everything. You can put a plate on the bottom and pour it into that as well.

 

[julioarca]

I lift bucket onto tank and use a small measuring jug to canter water into the tank

 

[Tolak]

Hose, adding dechlor on the fly.

 

[waterdrop]

My hose is attached to the bathroom sink faucet down the hall, the gravel cleaning end is still in the tank from prior tank water removal. I turn on the hot water full force (!) walk back to the tank, put half the amount of Prime I need in, walk back to the faucet and change the temp to cool, walk back to the tank and dump the other half of Prime into the flowing water, walk back to the faucet and turn it off, coil up the hose and put it under the sink.. takes 5 minutes. (don't try this at home with fish, as they say )

 

[bordercollie05]

Used to use a bucket, but I kept getting water ALL over. Now I use a submersible pump most times, its really easy that way and much dryer.

 

[minxfishy]

With a python, it syphons out the water, flick the attachment, it pours in new water, I add dechlor into the tank as it refills

 

[Corleone]

I have a small drill powered pump with two lengths of garden hose. Hope Depot sells them for clearing water out of pipes or pumping antifreeze into sprinkler systems, but it's worked for this. (It was never used for anything else, so no risk of getting antifreeze residue in my tank)

 

[waterdrop]

i use a small pond pump with some garden hose on, i have an 80 littre tub that i fill the day before, once i emptied my tank enough i just plug in the pump and sit back and relax.

Cheers Gordon

For anyone with a back problem, who also wants to treat their return water carefully and thus won't or can't use a python, I once heard a great recommendation that is similar to Gordon's approach:

At one of those big-box hardware stores you can get a very large plastic trash can, new, on wheels (assumes you have space!) and it can be filled up at some time prior and any sort of water conditioning you want can be done to it. Then you have a powerhead/submersible-pump with an aquarium tube that is just kept in this rolling bucket and you use it to pump the replacement water right into your large tank.

(Personally, I've taken the approach of many here who feel dechlor and tap water going right on in to the tank is not a significant risk, but there are those who want to be more careful and the above approach always sounded good to me for people in some situations.)

~~waterdrop~~