Larger water change

[HayleyJ]

Thanks! I have thought to do that but I did not trust the dechlorinator to work that well and quick. I love my my fish so I didn't want to try it without some back up from other fish lovers!

 

[skjl47]

Pour the dechlorinator in the tank, fill the tank up

dose with SeaChem Safe and fill, link below.

again dose the tank, then fill, no need to dose water before adding

always dose for size of tank

Dump in the Prime near the python and refill with temperature matched water. And dose for the whole water volume of tank and filters.

but I did not trust the dechlorinator to work that well and quick.

Hello; interesting.

I love my my fish so I didn't want to try it without some back up from other fish lovers!

Hello; Again interesting. I guess three member statements are not enough.

 

[HayleyJ]

Hello; interesting.

Hello; Again interesting. I guess three member statements are not enough.

I was just saying thanks for the confirmation of what I already had thought to do and gave the reason for why I hadn't done it yet. Yes, three member statements are plenty, which is why I will do it like that next time. No need to input your unnecessary rude comments that aren't helpful in any way.

 

[skjl47]

No need to input your unnecessary rude comments that aren't helpful in any way.

Hello; Fair enough. I misunderstood that prior post of yours. I will not comment on your thread any more. But it seems to me the statement of yours quoted above does exactly the same thing you accuse me of. just saying.

 

[squint]

Thanks! I have thought to do that but I did not trust the dechlorinator to work that well and quick. I love my my fish so I didn't want to try it without some back up from other fish lovers!

The best practice is to pre-treat and pre-heat cold tap water. Aquarium forums are full of posts where people said their fish died after a water change. If there was no risk there wouldn't be all these accounts.

 

[markstrimaran]

Better way? Well I use isolation barrels, for my tank plumbed in on a closed loop. Prime was out of my budget. The flow into and out of the drum is "drip system" so chlorine is dissipated.

I have about 7x flow, with sand tiles, and a full time 2" airlift that removes the big stuff over the weir. So nothing to vacume.