Question About Water Changes

[waterdrop]

I think its the construction of the holding tank that might matter. Often newer ones have glass or fiberglass linings and don't really expose the water to more heavy metal uptake than pipes do, so with the usual pipe flush to get the "overnight" water out, you are usually fine with hot/cold mixed at the tap to roughly match your tank temp.

~~waterdrop~~

 

[Truck]

we have one of those new fiber glass hokding tanks, but its still cloudy when we run it in the morning...

 

[OldMan47]

In extreme cases I have done a 90% water change and left the fish in the tank. I did one last week to move a 10 gallon about 6 feet. I drained 90% and left a gallon behind for the fish to swim in while I shifted the tank to its new stand. Then I refilled with temperature matched treated water. All of the limias in that tank look fine today. If I had chased the fish all over when the water was low and put them into a bucket, I believe it would have stressed them worse than the way I did it. It did take a bit more care than usual to make sure the temperature match was a good one and it was not a tank with a substrate. That meant no stirred up bottom stuff to deal with in the water column.

 

[mancin]

Good to know. Also the net over the end of the hose is a great idea! I wouldn't have thought of that.

 

[raptorrex]

Good to know. Also the net over the end of the hose is a great idea! I wouldn't have thought of that.

I'm fully behind OldMan here, the whole process is hard enough for fish, without some giant chasing them with nets too!

 

[BigC]

http/www.aquatics-online.co.uk/catalogue...er-changers.asp