How do you mix your water conditioner with your tank water?????

Several threads, long discussions & many opinions have been posted here in the recent past.

Manufacturers instructions say to pre-mix, then add to tank. If your mixing their product with a live animal, you can bet they've done the testing to know the best and safest way to apply their products (it's called C.Y.A. ).

Some add directly to the tank others pre-mix (me for one) & some don't even use it and all say they see no detrimental side effects (key word being see).

Do what's best for the fish even if it is more work, it's best in the long run.

Rr Joe

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I premix my water with Prime using two 35G trash cans. I have chloramines in my water, so I use twice the recommended amount of Prime.

I have an air stone in each trash can to mix the Prime thoroughly and improve the oxygen content of the water. After about two hours I pump the water into the tank.

I have to do this because when I was mixing the Prime and tap water in the tank, I would either kill off some of my weaker community fish (e.g., neons, guppies) or cause my African Cichlids to flash constantly after a water change.

There are people who believe the water companies should stop using chloramine (see www.chloramine.org). There are reports of water pipe breaks that dumped chloramine water into rivers; killing off some of the fish.

I mix my water conditioner with water in bucket's and put in tank straight away but i only have 3 tank's so it's not that much work, my brother has a lot of tank's including 2 x 200gl tank's so he empty's water out put's conditioner in tank then add's water with a hose pipe ,takes about an hour to fill and you have to get tempreture right and check it often.

I have a 1 gallon jug I use to mix with water, and then add it into the current of the hose as I'm filling.

I heard Prime usually takes 10-15mins to dilute once mixed with water. I pre-mix then add it to the tank. As for temperature, I add hot water to keep the water from fluctuating more than 10 F degrees.

I'll pre-mix mine.

I use a 5 gallon "Deep Rock" jug. I put the chemicals in first, then wedge the kitchen sink spray nozzle into the neck of the jug (it fits just right so that it'll spray without needing to be held). It will help add air to the water, plus mix up the water rather well before adding to the tank.

the good ole five gallon buckets.....

I premix my water with conditioners before adding it to the tank.