Pouring Water Into Tank

[bolivian_d]

Could pouring water too quickly into a tank (i.e from a bucket at a reasonable rate) during water changes cause structural damage to a tank? If so, is it likely?

 

[flash22]

shouldn't do. your just displace some of the sand/gravel. but the old plate trick cures that (Put the plate in the tank as you pour the water in hits the plate insead of the gravel)

 

[rocknurworld2006]

shouldn't do. your just displace some of the sand/gravel. but the old plate trick cures that (Put the plate in the tank as you pour the water in hits the plate insead of the gravel)

yes i agree.

if there is alot of pressure by puring whole bucket really fast then yes u could cause severe structural damage.

i always siphon it back in

 

[jennybugs]

As said it shouldn't harm your tank, but your fish may not like it too much! I'm a syphoner too

 

[andywg]

I've filled many a tank from mains pressure hoses with no issue. I suppose there is the potential for an issue if you tried to pour 70-100% of the water into the tank in one go...

 

[vinylman]

I've filled many a tank from mains pressure hoses with no issue. I suppose there is the potential for an issue if you tried to pour 70-100% of the water into the tank in one go...

Yes, I think you may need a few towels down for that.

 

[Tolak]

I dump 5 gallons of water into a 5 gallon tank in somewhere under 3 seconds without any problem, I fill 2.5 gallon tanks in less than that. They contain no fish when I do this.

 

[pippoodle]

I dump 5 gallons of water into a 5 gallon tank in somewhere under 3 seconds without any problem, I fill 2.5 gallon tanks in less than that. They contain no fish when I do this.

you sound like my hubby when we have an empty tank he just chucks the water in from the buckets and we havent had any structural probs -------yet

 

[Dorkhedeos]

It shouldnt unless you have a huge bucket that you can dump out all at once.. A full tank of water exerts more pressure than a stream of water falling a couple of feet. If you already have water in the tank, the water from the stream is spread out through the water in the tank.

 

[andywg]

I dump 5 gallons of water into a 5 gallon tank in somewhere under 3 seconds without any problem, I fill 2.5 gallon tanks in less than that. They contain no fish when I do this.

Interesting. I stand corrected (on smaller tanks, at least).

I wonder whether the cubic nature of volume would cause this to be a bigger problem with larger tanks. A 5 gallon tank has around 20kg of water in it. A 150 gallon tank has about 600kg of water in it but I doubt it has 30 times as much glass around it.

However, I am surprised that you can do the tanks so quickly. I wonder if anyone has a spare 55 gallon tank and a tipping barrel that holds at least 55 gallons of water and would like to experiment...

 

[Tolak]

I've honestly never thought about it being a problem. I just do it. I have an old 20 or 29 gallon in the garage, if it were warmer I'd recruit a few friends with 5 gallon buckets, do a group dump.

 

[calsonic]

i have been filling my tank with 25litre ro barls wich i have hoisted straight onto my shoulder and poured into the tank for ages without any bother