How Do You Get Your Water Up To Temp When Changing?

[Jules H-T]

How do you get the water you're about to change up to temp?

Don't bother, just chuck it in?
Leave it stand for a while?
Leave it on a radiator?
Put a heater in it?
Add hot tap water?
Add water from a kettle?
Something else?

As it goes, I leave water overnight and only change when the central heating has been on for a while so I know it's not freezing.

 

[kris-b-]

I use a thermometer to see how warm the water in my tank is then fill up a bucket adding hot and cold water trying to match the temperature of the tank using the thermometer again!

 

[debiasir]

mixture between cold and warm water straight from the taps and then the touch test. soon got the hang of it and started added a thermometer and temps were spot on

 

[keane]

me too

mixture of hot and cold taps and stick my finger in to guesstimate whether or not the temp is right.

 

[jimbooo]

same here, hot and cold from the tap and dip a finger in. by that stage i've had my arm in the tank for an hour anyway so can tell roughly if the waters the same temp.

 

[qwikimpss]

Ditto!

(all I'm gonna say )

 

[qwikimpss]

Ditto!

(all I'm gonna say )

 

[AndyTaylor]

Same as that, cold water, hot water, check with finger! Scientific, eh?
My fish seem to like the addition of colder water (not cold water). They get really active and colorful when I change the water. Surely there are colder currents in the wild?....not that any of my fish have ever seen the wild!

 

[annka5]

oh dear, I'm sad... I put the water in a large bucket with a spare heater and an air pump overnight - the air pump to sort out the gases in the water and stabalise pH. Total overkill, but my current tank isn't particualrly big.
When i get my big tank running, it'll be mix of cold tap water and water from the kettle.

 

[Bloo]

How do you get the water you're about to change up to temp?

Don't bother, just chuck it in?
Leave it stand for a while?
Leave it on a radiator?
Put a heater in it?
Add hot tap water?
Add water from a kettle?
Something else?

As it goes, I leave water overnight and only change when the central heating has been on for a while so I know it's not freezing.

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But I just use hot water from the hot tap (combi boiler) and use my hand to judge temperature. Squirt require dechlor in and add water to tank. Voila !

 

[The-Wolf]

I just turn my shower to setting 1 1/2 for my danio tanks, and 2 for my other tanks. Then press the button

 

[prankster705]

Mixing of hot and cold water.

 

[littleimp]

Haven't had to do it yet in freswahter mode but I have a 30gal container in the kitchen (near tank) which is automatically fed & topped up with RO. In here is a heater & maxijet 1200 for circulation. The water's heated so to top up when I do a change I will be adding RO right & then using the powerhead with a tube attached to pump the water to the tank. This used to happen automatically with a float switch into the sump but will be doing it manually from now on as evaporation will be low.

 

[rabbit]

hot and cold straight from tap

 

[Tolak]

Mix of hot & cold from the tap, adjusted to tank temp with a thermometer. Flip the lever to the fishroom hose, go in the fishroom, open that valve & start filling.

Tolak