How do you put back water in the tank?
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OK guys, here's the deal! If you spend a little time plumbing, you can run filtered water water into the "outlet" (return) side of your sump, and have an overflow in the "intake" side of your sump that empties into your household plumbing.
You can then choose to open the supply valve wide open and watch your water temp. and turn it off when you see the temp. drop a couple of degrees, or you can let it trickle slow enough that the water is changed out without any temp. variation.
It might be a little more work initially, but only having to open a valve to do a water change-------PRICELESS!!!!
You can then choose to open the supply valve wide open and watch your water temp. and turn it off when you see the temp. drop a couple of degrees, or you can let it trickle slow enough that the water is changed out without any temp. variation.
It might be a little more work initially, but only having to open a valve to do a water change-------PRICELESS!!!!
sunvalley aquarist;4318543; said:
Yeah but still have to vacume detritus off bottom of tank. All the chunks of poo sit on the bottom and draining into a pump is literally just changing water- leaves a lot of the solids still in the tank. Helps but I like to gravel siphon personally.
I attached an old submersible pump to the end of my python, insert in tank, plug in . And the water runs into the sink via the faucet attachment. Then take off the pump run the water check the temp, close the valve and fill. Right now I change 45 gallons total a week out of 5 tanks and a water change takes aprox an hour total.
This is how I do it:
* Siphon 30-40 gallons into two 5 gallon buckets
* Dump the water and then fill the buckets with water
* Add dechlorinates to the buckets and wait 15 minutes
* Add clean water to tank
I'm sick of lugging around buckets but am not sure how the python works so I haven't bought one yet. Explain it to me how it works as if I was retarded.
* Siphon 30-40 gallons into two 5 gallon buckets
* Dump the water and then fill the buckets with water
* Add dechlorinates to the buckets and wait 15 minutes
* Add clean water to tank
I'm sick of lugging around buckets but am not sure how the python works so I haven't bought one yet. Explain it to me how it works as if I was retarded.
I do not know as much as many do here about keeping fish, but I do know about chlorine and chemical reactions. For background I refine precious metals for a living and chlorine levels can be critical for some reactions, speaking of which all chemical reactions take time and some are faster than others. I have well water with zero ppm chlorine so this is not an issue with me. I would love to hear what is in the fish prime that they are using to remove the chlorine. I would assume it is a replacement reaction that pushes the chlorine out as Cl2 gas.
It just stands to reason for me that you would wish to remove the chlorine before you add the water to your fish tank. In addition every municipality will have different chlorine levels in the water they deliver to your tap. How do you determine the proper dosing of fish prime and that all the Cl2 is gone? I would use silver nitrate as it is a quantitative test.
It just stands to reason for me that you would wish to remove the chlorine before you add the water to your fish tank. In addition every municipality will have different chlorine levels in the water they deliver to your tap. How do you determine the proper dosing of fish prime and that all the Cl2 is gone? I would use silver nitrate as it is a quantitative test.
In theory, you check your city water report and dose according to the bottle. It states a certain quantity of Prime will remove a given amount of Chlorine / chloramine, but I don't know how reliable it all is, really. I did look it up a long time ago and "did the math" guesstimating. Now I just do two drops a gallon and call it good. And it's working.
