A fair question re: minimum tank size?

[pops]

fin level or 90% every Saturday. all tanks.

 

[metsfan]

So...I'm currently housing a jaguar cichlid...about 8 inches...in a 75 gallon. Not sure of the sex. Anyway....I'm reading EVERYWHERE that it needs a 125 gallon as a full sized adult so it can comfortably turn around? Fair enough. I will be searching out the local craigslist for a future home...but wait!!!....the widths of both the 75 and 125 are both 19 inches. So what's the scoop?

You will have 2 feet more length with the 125 which is important. I've had very large Jags - 14 inches in a 125 and they were fine.

 

[MonsterFishCreeper]

When you guys do these large water changes are you pumping tap water directly into the tank and adding chemicals from there or are you dechlorinating in a separate container and pumping into the tank?

 

[Benno87]

When you guys do these large water changes are you pumping tap water directly into the tank and adding chemicals from there or are you dechlorinating in a separate container and pumping into the tank?

I've got a 200 litre food grade drum that I de chlorinate, aerate and heat the water in for a day or 2 before wc, makes things much easier and less stressful on the fish as where I'm am the ph of the water tends to shift a fair bit once out of the tap and aerated for a few hours. Water drums are so cheap too.

 

[MonsterFishCreeper]

I've got a 200 litre food grade drum that I de chlorinate, aerate and heat the water in for a day or 2 before wc, makes things much easier and less stressful on the fish as where I'm am the ph of the water tends to shift a fair bit once out of the tap and aerated for a few hours. Water drums are so cheap too.

Thanks I'm trying to get my head around how to do water changes on my 55. I do have a closet next to the tank where I could stash a trash bin or food drum to do this method. I see for the python water changers they show you spraying it directly back into the tank which seems odd.

 

[DBLN8]

I do approx 70-75% on my water changes I add the water and the de-chlorinator (I use safe) directly to the tank. I installed This in my laundry room so my water temp is always at 75 degs.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E96Q68?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00

 

[SHANE64]

I do the same hose pipe through the window straight in the tank add dechlorinator straight in then just fill up nice and slow