how much time do you spend doing a waterchange?

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silly people.
step1 :just get a large diameter hose and attach mag drive or other pump to it.
step2: attach the other end of the hose to the sink and fill the tank back up

it used take me about 45min to change water on my 450g and 180g when i had them
 
^ This! I just saw someone doing this at a new LFS this year and wondered why I had never seen it before. He was using a commercial garbage can on wheels to transport the fill water over to the tanks and refill them using an internal pump in the can. He could do the 24 55g tanks at the store in about an hour doing 25% water changes.

I bought a 32 gallon Rubbermaid Brute, with a set of additional wheels you can move a full can of water easily for those that can't run a hose from the sink to it.

I usually end up with about an hour a week at once doing water changes, 2 75g tanks, and a 125 doing 25%-40% water change. During the week you can tack on another hour between touch up gravel vac and glass cleanings.
For old water going out, I still run a longer hose from the pump and water the plants in the flowerbed - with our summer water restrictions here it's the only way to go.

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No time what so ever doing water changes. Drip system is the way to go ;)
 
vitaly said:
silly people.
step1 :just get a large diameter hose and attach mag drive or other pump to it.
step2: attach the other end of the hose to the sink and fill the tank back up

it used take me about 45min to change water on my 450g and 180g when i had them
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I do use a pump but it still takes a long time. I might be exaggerating about the wc time on my 450g but around 1.5-2 hours for everything. Cleaning mech media on sump/fx5, cleaning filter socks, scrubbing glass, siphoning and draining the water and then refill. The time just feels like a eternity doing it.


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actual labor time for me is like 2 mins. but from beginning to end water change it takes like 2 hours. as i dont use conditioners and i refill super slow so it takes long to fill up. so i go nap or do something till its fill up.
 
no more than an hour per week on a 150g, 90g, and 29g.
 
Roughly 300g change takes me about 4 hrs but it's kinda set and forget so I'm usually not actually spending more than 30 min of my time
 
vitaly said:
silly people.
step1 :just get a large diameter hose and attach mag drive or other pump to it.
step2: attach the other end of the hose to the sink and fill the tank back up

it used take me about 45min to change water on my 450g and 180g when i had them
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I've recently started doing something somewhat similar to this. I attach a pump (which I think is somewhere around 350gph) to a water hose and drain the tank water out into the yard, then I use the same pump but attach a shorter hose that runs into the tank, then put the pump in a full 5g bucket and run a water faucet into it while the pump pushes the water into the tank. This process still takes about 2.5 hours on average, but it's better than my old method (regular siphon + two 5g buckets +100 to 150g water change = 3 or 4hrs of manual labor :nilly:).
 
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