I use a Python but I use prime and I add half at the start of fill up and half when the fill up is halfway done
Adding Seachem and tap water
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I use a digital meat thermometer while running fresh water from the tap on my python system. I also use them for QT tanks. I can monitor temp swings in smaller volume tanks this way.
Yeah, we do, but it's too small to add a sink. As the saying goes, our laundry room is barely big enough to go inside to change your mind.
Hmm. The under-the-counter 2nd faucet idea is clever and it may work for youngsters. but not so much for an old-timer. It seems we may have to settle for a regular non-sexy kitchen faucet with an ordinary removable aerator, and sweetie & I will make do.
Just be careful with your pressure, i only connect mine to outside spigots because it cause my faucet to leak
Youngsters, lol?
If you mean that bending and reaching the under-counter faucets might be an issue, you could do the same thing in your laundry room. You have hot and cold outlets for your washer, likely at a very convenient height. You could just unscrew the washer fill hoses and replace them with the 2-into-1 mixer assembly each time you do a water change...or you could easily add another set of taps and then leave the mixer in place, or better still install a mixer faucet there for use just with water changes, leaving the original washer hoses in place. Any and all of these one-time inconvenient jobs would pay huge dividends all the way down the line at each water change.
As others said, start buying "Safe" as it's more cost efficient.
I use a python on my 125g. I'll measure out the amount of safe I'm going to put it and spread it throughout various part of the tank so it'll get dissolved as the tank fills up. Some of the powder falls directly into the water, some is on driftwood that's a little higher, some on a rock that's a little higher, some on top of a heater that's near the top,.and some powder on the powerhead they is near the top. It probably doesn't matter if I do this versus just dumping it all at once but I feel better doing it this way.
I use a python on my 125g. I'll measure out the amount of safe I'm going to put it and spread it throughout various part of the tank so it'll get dissolved as the tank fills up. Some of the powder falls directly into the water, some is on driftwood that's a little higher, some on a rock that's a little higher, some on top of a heater that's near the top,.and some powder on the powerhead they is near the top. It probably doesn't matter if I do this versus just dumping it all at once but I feel better doing it this way.
Youngsters, lol?
If you mean that bending and reaching the under-counter faucets might be an issue, you could do the same thing in your laundry room. You have hot and cold outlets for your washer, likely at a very convenient height. You could just unscrew the washer fill hoses and replace them with the 2-into-1 mixer assembly each time you do a water change...or you could easily add another set of taps and then leave the mixer in place, or better still install a mixer faucet there for use just with water changes, leaving the original washer hoses in place. Any and all of these one-time inconvenient jobs would pay huge dividends all the way down the line at each water change.
Perhaps, some day, y'all may discover that regularly getting down on your hands & knees to connect a faucet is rather much, and is (at best) sub-optimal, if it's even still possible. Looking for a better way. Oh, and sadly, our laundry washer hookups are hidden in the wall behind the machine.
I'm very curious how y'all would adjust the temperature using such a "hidden" or under-counter "mixer assembly", since the absence of a sink drain means you can't simply run the water to pre-check its temperature?
When I do a WC, I use a Python green T-Pump plus a little shutoff valve (on side) between the Python hose and T-pump. Python calls the valve a No Spill Flow Switch. First, I attach the T-Pump to the sink faucet (at aerator), and let faucet water pass straight through the T-Pump into the sink drain while I adjust water temperature. After I finally get the right temp, I open my side-facing quick-turn shut-off valve to send the water into the hose, and then lastly I twist close the bottom of the Python T-Pump. I don't use the T-Pump to siphon, but only for sending water into the tank. I often twist open the T-Pump bottom, to re-check & re-adjust temperature while filling the tank. So a sink drain is needed, for me.
If you didn't have a drain, how would you adjust your water temperature? Or do you not bother?
Not having access to the taps in the laundry room is a shame; that would have been the easy way.
When I used the under-counter added taps, I just attached the hose to the 2-in-1 mixer gizmo, put the other end of the hose (with a simple garden-variety shut-off nozzle on it) into the sink right there, ran the water into the sink while I adjusted the temperature to where I wanted it, turned off the nozzle, moved the end of the hose into the tank in question and opened the nozzle to fill the tank.
I also used that same hose to drain the tank; put a T-fitting right near the sink faucet, with a shut-off valve on each arm of the Tee. Run a short hose from the faucet to the Tee, run another hose from one side of the Tee to the tank and run a third hose from the other side of the Tee to a bathtub drain, toilet, out a window, etc. Shut the valve leading to the drain, and use the faucet to fill the hose to the tank. Then shut the valve leading to the tank, and fill up the other hose leading to the drain. Finally, open the valve to the tank, shut off the faucet and close the valve leading to it, and you now have a siphon running from the tank, through the Tee and out to the drain.
I used this type of set-up for years in one house, and the hardest part was coiling/uncoiling the hoses. The rest of the water change was just a matter of opening and closing the appropriate valves and faucets. It's even easier if your tanks are in the basement fish room, like mine now are...because I don't coil and uncoil the hoses at all, I just leave them set up and clipped to the tank stands and the walls behind. I have two small tanks, totalling maybe 40 gallons of water, upstairs in my house now...and they require more time and effort to do the water changes than the roughly 900+ gallons down in the basement.
I'm currently in the process of surreptitiously running hoses from those two tanks, through holes drilled in the floor in concealed corners, to join up with the basement system. If my wife ever finds out...my postings here may come to an abrupt end...
When I used the under-counter added taps, I just attached the hose to the 2-in-1 mixer gizmo, put the other end of the hose (with a simple garden-variety shut-off nozzle on it) into the sink right there, ran the water into the sink while I adjusted the temperature to where I wanted it, turned off the nozzle, moved the end of the hose into the tank in question and opened the nozzle to fill the tank.
I also used that same hose to drain the tank; put a T-fitting right near the sink faucet, with a shut-off valve on each arm of the Tee. Run a short hose from the faucet to the Tee, run another hose from one side of the Tee to the tank and run a third hose from the other side of the Tee to a bathtub drain, toilet, out a window, etc. Shut the valve leading to the drain, and use the faucet to fill the hose to the tank. Then shut the valve leading to the tank, and fill up the other hose leading to the drain. Finally, open the valve to the tank, shut off the faucet and close the valve leading to it, and you now have a siphon running from the tank, through the Tee and out to the drain.
I used this type of set-up for years in one house, and the hardest part was coiling/uncoiling the hoses. The rest of the water change was just a matter of opening and closing the appropriate valves and faucets. It's even easier if your tanks are in the basement fish room, like mine now are...because I don't coil and uncoil the hoses at all, I just leave them set up and clipped to the tank stands and the walls behind. I have two small tanks, totalling maybe 40 gallons of water, upstairs in my house now...and they require more time and effort to do the water changes than the roughly 900+ gallons down in the basement.
I'm currently in the process of surreptitiously running hoses from those two tanks, through holes drilled in the floor in concealed corners, to join up with the basement system. If my wife ever finds out...my postings here may come to an abrupt end...
Just wanted to pop in and report the system works great, anyone nervous like I was about adding tap water to tank (after adding Seachem for full tank volume as pointed out by
esoxlucius
everything is great! Except when I forgot it was filling until it started to drip on my arm from the water flowing over the top, lol.
esoxlucius
everything is great! Except when I forgot it was filling until it started to drip on my arm from the water flowing over the top, lol.
