What Do You Use To Change Your Water?

[PrettyDiscus]

It takes me 30 minites to empty the tank using a jug and each time putting it in two buckets. Then i go to the tap with the bucket and put in some hot and cold water then dechlorinator. Is there any different quicker ways of doing this which wont mean spilling it all over the kitchen floor and falling on your ass?

 

[Ginge]

Sypon it out with a tube or graval vac.
Try not to use hot water.
Do about a 25% weekly water change.

HTH

 

[DarkEntity]

I use a pair of large buckets and a long piece of pump hose.

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

I use a jug and a bucket. Fill up a few buckets, stick some de-chlorine stuff in (right dossage to go with the water which as already in there). Take 20% out atleast and put the water from the buckets in the tank slowly so the sand doesn't get disturbed. i get to say sand now instead of gravel

 

[PrettyDiscus]

I put the water in really vigorously so i churn up the sand so i can net all the crap out.

 

[CAC]

I use a gravel vac, but i dont use the actual gravel cleaner thing, cos its too big for my liking.

Mikey

 

[raptorrex]

i get it out with a vac, 25% per week, into a 17ltr tub, i put it back in very fast, well c'mon 17ltr at shoulder hight is heavy, but it also sturs things up a bit. the Cray will move the gravel back!!!!!

 

[skiltrip]

get a simple gravel vac, or just buy a 10' roll of clear tubing from your local hardware store. 1/2" diameter is usually pretty good.

suck up old water and poop into bucket, dump it out in garden, or down your drain, or whatever.

use empty gallon spring water jugs to refill with tap water that feels about the same as your tank water. (you'll get better at this over time, and soon, your temp won't budge more than a degree or 2 tops.)
add a couple drops of dechlorinator to each jug before you dump it in.

and don't forget to shut your heater off if you're going to drop the water line down lower than the glass part of it. dont' want that baby breaking on you!

 

[dwarfgourami]

Like the others, I syphon the water out with the gravel vac (using the smallest gravel vac in the shop even for my large tank, for the fry tank, I take off the attachment). Then I use a large plastic measuring jug for bailing the first few litres of clean water from the bucket into the tank; after that I pour.
I have separate buckets for clean and dirty water, so I have the clean water ready before I start syphoning out the dirty. This speeds things up and cuts down on the time I have to have the electrics off. Also lessens the risk of carrying infection from one tank to another.

 

[BigIan]

i siphon out the water.

add the declor

then get the hose out and fill the tanks back up...

 

[vic]

http/www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/diy_python.php


Make your life simpler, and safer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers;

 

[MoMa]

Gravel Vac.
1 "bad water" bucket.
3 "good water" buckets.
hot and cold water to mimic temp. in tank (takes some practice).
patience.


and DON'T send the "bad" water down the drain. Put it outside! Otherwise, you just might be bathing in it later...

 

[Cheffi]

Siphon water out with a Python and clean sand. Straight out into the garden and the plants. Refill with the Python chucking in the dechlor as it goes in. Very happy fish I can do a 25% change on a 66gal tank in around 15 minutes.

 

[Tolak]

I have several large siphon hoses that siphon into a 35 gallon can. There's a 1400 gph pump in the can, with a foot switch, that pumps the water across the basement to my sump pump through a hose. I drain 5 gallons per min. with this. I fill with a second hose that's attached to the faucet near the sump pump. I can fill one tank while draining another.

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

and DON'T send the "bad" water down the drain. Put it outside! Otherwise, you just might be bathing in it later...

all water is re-cycled. the world only has a certain amount so anything you put down the drain or down the plug hole, there is a chance you'll be bathing in it, drinking it, putting it back in your fish tank. but it all gets filtered, cleaned and chlorinated (or whatever) so it doesn't matter if you put it down the drain