New house new water-sucks

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tyjo1334

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Recently moved into a new townhouse and I have a couple issues. btw I have a 210 and a 75. Issue #1- tanks are now in basement which.makes siphoning a problem so I have been pumping the fx5 out the window but this isn't solving my problem of dirty substrate this isn't so bad with the 75 because I can use a snake into 5g buckets and take them outside but its a different story with the 210g. My old place I had the tanks upstairs so.I just siphoned out the window and it was very quick and EASY! Issue #2- the couple times I've done WC on the tanks the water comes in cloudy and the fish don't take the WC to well, they become very slow and the WC don't seem to welcoming like the old house (which I believe was well water now I have city water) the fish loved when I would do a 40%-50%WC. Please help.with some solutions.

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I keep all my tanks in the basement. I've switched to sand substrate, so I only have to get the stuff off the bottom once or twice a week. Since it's quick, I use the ever-so-wasteful python to get rid of the visible poop. As soon as that's done, I have a series of 5 gallon home depot buckets I siphon into using just a length of hose. I usually do 2-3 10% water changes a week. The water where I live has a lot of chlorine, so I treat every 5 gallon bucket individually. Doing all 4 tanks (even with a poop-siphon) takes me less than an hour, and I usually do it after I've fed everyone. The small frequent changes seem to be less stressful on my guys as well.

Not meaning to insult your fish-keeping intelligence, but are you treating the water before you ad it to your tanks? Well water has got to be a LOT different than city water.
 
Prime
 
^+1, or really anything that removes chlorine & chloramine. Prime is the best option, because I believe is also prevents the formation of free ammonia once the chlorine bonds are broken, but I have gotten by with regular old water conditioners for years now.
 
Gill Blue said:
doing water changes with untreated city water? you may already have seriously damaged their gills.
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+1 and you can also kill your bb but since u change low amounts you should be good, I've heard of bb crashes when the added untreated water get directly sucked up by the intake.

Prime is good, safe is a little better/cheaper. Also you can add a DIY carbon filter to your hose line.

There should be a drain or sump pump hole somewhere in the basement, mine has a sump hole and a huge drain I can siphon into w/o trouble, your sump pump is hooked up to sewer lines anyway.

Hope this helps!


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You can also age your water in rubbermaid trash cans 44gallon size for a 210gallon I would get 2 of them dose with prime and depending on stock would determine how often the water change is needed. You will need a pond pump to get water into the aquarium and a circulation pumps (circulate the water in the trash cans). This is how I do it I also heat the water in the trash cans so the fish have less shock do to temp change during water change.
 
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