Monster water changes???

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Atleast you guys down have to carry buckets up/down stairs. I'm to poor(Or just to lazy to go buy)for a python. Even doing a 35 gallon, and then taking all of the water out of the turtle enclosure with two 12 quart buckets is not that fun.
 
Largemouthbadbass;1015812; said:
Just pump in dechlorinator huh.......Nah,i'd rather treat little bits of water at a time.........because at one point you'll have your WHOLE tanks volume of dechlorinator in at once,THEN chlorinated water STILL hits the fish.F' that dude.......even if i had a 500+ gallon tank i'd treat a 55 gallon drum then put in tank.
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Yeah....i know...fish don't seem to mind, but then I don't keep anything too sensistive. I change %80+ at a time like this...no problems yet :)
 
Y' can get away with using a python or similar attached directly to the mains water supply and put the water directly into the tank so long as your water only contains chlorine instead of chloramines.

Even then the manufacturers of water treatments suggest you use a bucket to premix. It might be a good idea to shut down the filter and keep water changes to a smaller percentage (which is always a good thing anyway) if you are adding directly to the tank.

If however your water has chloramines you must use a premixer as water treatments are a long way from instantaneous with chloramines.
 
I always siphon out the tank (20-50%, depending) using a python, then suck out the sump, so it's dry. Then I reverse the python and pump the fresh water into the sump, adding dechlorinator with it. The sump tends to mix the dechlorinator in with the water before it goes into the tank.

I also live where there's not a lot of chlorine in the water though.
 
The danger of putting the water into the tank before mixing is that your fish could get a gill full of chlorine or chloramine before they have been 'neutralised'.

The danger of adding your water to you sump is that your filter bacteria might be steralised if they get an, err, cell wall ??? full of chlorine or chloramine. So if you are adding from the tap directly to the sump (and you're not lucky enought to be one well water) you are safest to do so to the return compartment of the sump and not biological areas.
 
Or you could do that.

Though if you want to remove chloramines using an inline filter you should probably add another 10inch 5 micron prefilter pod as the chloramine filters block quickly and are expensive.
 
I have a DIY PVC Overflow set up about 1/2 way down the aquarium. The pipe runs through 1 wall into my back yard.

I turn the ball valve open and walk away. I can shut it at any level. The most I will get with this is about a 50% water change.

I still need to run some piping to get water back into the tank.

Buckets for now.

I'll try and find pics.
 
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