Water Change

[Mas84]

Hi everyone,
 
To make sure i keep up with water changes i have bought a filter set up which has one canister with filter media and two with carbon so i can run warm water directly from my kitchen tap into my tank.
 
Can anyone see any bad or harmful to the fish by doing this?
 

 
Cheers Sam

 

[the_lock_man]

Two potential problems, which I'm sure you thought of.
 
Temperature of the warm water - obviously it doesn't want to get too hot. I can't see whether you have a mixer tap there, so you would be able to regulate the temperature of the water coming out.
 
Second, obviously, you need to dose enough dechlor directly into the tank for the whole tank, not just the amount of the water change.

 

[fluttermoth]

Carbon removes chlorine, t_l_m...

 

[the_lock_man]

I'm glad someone spotted my deliberate mistake.......

 

[simplyfish]

Can I just query this...
 

 
Second, obviously, you need to dose enough dechlor directly into the tank for the whole tank, not just the amount of the water change.

 
I use enough dechlor for the amount I am changing.... Water into bucket, dechlor in bucket, water into tank.
 
Should I be using more than this?

 

[the_lock_man]

Can I just query this...
 

 
Second, obviously, you need to dose enough dechlor directly into the tank for the whole tank, not just the amount of the water change.

 
I use enough dechlor for the amount I am changing.... Water into bucket, dechlor in bucket, water into tank.
 
Should I be using more than this?

 
Because you are using buckets, no you don't, that's the way I do it too, although I put the dechlor in first, so that it mixes into the water easily.
 
If you were to fill the tank directly via a hose (without going through a carbon filter beforehand

) you would have to dose the whole tank.

 

[simplyfish]

We need a facebook style like button on this forum...
 
Thanks for that and apologies to OP for hijack!
 
And good idea on dechlor first, think I'll adopt that.

 

[KirkyArcher]

Don't dose for the full tank unless you're using Seachem Prime or Seachem Safe the reason you dose for a full tank with these products is so they can make ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate non-toxic and has nothing to do with the act of dechlorination. All other dechlorinators dose the amount it says on the bottle for the amount of water you add unless instructions state otherwise.

 

[Mas84]

Two potential problems, which I'm sure you thought of.
 
Temperature of the warm water - obviously it doesn't want to get too hot. I can't see whether you have a mixer tap there, so you would be able to regulate the temperature of the water coming out.
 
Second, obviously, you need to dose enough dechlor directly into the tank for the whole tank, not just the amount of the water change.

 
 
Thanks for the reply, yeah it's connected to a mixer tap and i have a ball valve on the filling end so i can reach the required temp in the sink then move across and fill the tank. The water filter store i bought the set up from said the two 3L carbon filters will be enough to remove all the chlorine from the water. 
 
The whole set up just feels too easy when replacing 280-300L 
 
Cheers Sam 

 

[KirkyArcher]

Easy can be good sometimes!