Best way to change water?

[Dmaan.]

water python.
buy it at your lfs.
like $50 for 25' hose $75 for 50' hose.

 

[polish]

Python here as well after years of toting buckets around. I wish I would have switched sooner.

 

[xFLEAxx]

I just empty it out into a 15 gallon bucket and then I use a hose to fill it up. I have a 55 and a 75

 

[Pharaoh]

If you go onine, you could probably buy a python for cheaper than $50. I would suggest that you make the investment in a python or a drip system. The day of the bucket has passed.

 

[Dracor]

Python at walmart is about $35 for a 25' and it would be your best investment you ever made for cleaning!

For small tanks 10/20 gallons, I use a hose off of an old siphon to clean out the bottom and drain the water. Then use the python to refill them.

 

[freshwater freak]

the pyton method so much easier than a bucket

 

[TwistedPenguin]

Or rig up your own "python" with a garden hose. If you cut the end of a garden hose off a typical gravel syphon hose will shove right into it and you can run the other end out the door. Then get an adapter and hook that end (that's running out the door) up to a faucet to refill. I don't use the python faucet attachment thingy anyway because our water pressure is too low to do me much good with it.

 

[red_wall]

I just fill the bucket, add the de-chlorinator, set the bucket next to my tank, then put a cheap fountain pump and pump the water into the tank

 

[frasertheking]

yeah same 5 gal bucket ,small pump and some hose im in the loft so getting a 5gal bucket up a ladder is hard work

 

[RedAlkiestarte]

Gravel syphon + Window = easy

Thats what I do lol