Those with multiple tanks,how do you handle your water changes?
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I have it set so when a week is up its on a different day. So I do one Friday and one Saturday.
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I only have 3 tanks 29,90,100 and do a 25% change once a week. Not a lot compared to others.
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Right now I have 3 running (90, 75, and 29) and I do about a 30% water change on all 3 every Saturday or Sunday morning depending on my schedule.
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50+ tanks...ranging from 10g to 180g.
I do the large tanks one evening...and the rest usually on a weekend day (or day off like today). The limiting factor is warm water and water pressure, although a bunch of my tanks have (cold water) Uruguayan fish in them (and get cold water changes in the winter).
I've had a fishroom with auto-water changing and it's pretty awesome. Don't have it set up on this room.
I'm planning to add a central drain to the room (like my last fishroom) so that I can siphon 5-6 tanks at a time.
Currently, I use a couple of long 1" hoses that hang on the side of the tank with a PVC "U".... I drain those into the utility sink in the basement. Bottom row I use buckets or Python. I need the exercise
I use a garden hose from the utility sink to refill. It hangs on the side of the tanks with a PVC "U" and a ball valve to turn on and off.
I can do the whole room (minus big tanks) in about 2 hrs if the warm water holds out. I change water nearly every week and box filters every other. It's a nice bubbly place to escape from the grind of daily life!
Matt
I do the large tanks one evening...and the rest usually on a weekend day (or day off like today). The limiting factor is warm water and water pressure, although a bunch of my tanks have (cold water) Uruguayan fish in them (and get cold water changes in the winter).
I've had a fishroom with auto-water changing and it's pretty awesome. Don't have it set up on this room.
I'm planning to add a central drain to the room (like my last fishroom) so that I can siphon 5-6 tanks at a time.
Currently, I use a couple of long 1" hoses that hang on the side of the tank with a PVC "U".... I drain those into the utility sink in the basement. Bottom row I use buckets or Python. I need the exercise
I use a garden hose from the utility sink to refill. It hangs on the side of the tanks with a PVC "U" and a ball valve to turn on and off.
I can do the whole room (minus big tanks) in about 2 hrs if the warm water holds out. I change water nearly every week and box filters every other. It's a nice bubbly place to escape from the grind of daily life!
Matt
20+ Tanks from 10 to 280 gallons. The big tanks 240 and 280: I use a good old fashioned gravel vac w/ homemade extensions right out the garage door. The fishroom: we use an Aqueon water changer w/ 25 ft extension which goes into backyard. I usually start filling 240 & 280 w/ our other hose while we finish up smaller tanks. It takes my girlfriend and I about 2 hours every week to do all the tanks at once.
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I have a 29gal, a 100gal and a 560gal. When I start draining the 560 I have time to do total water changes on the 29 and 100 before the 560 finishes draining.
It would only waist time if I were to do them on different days.
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It would only waist time if I were to do them on different days.
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I have 3 banks of tanks, 4 tanks on a bank, a Uruguayan cold, Herichthys warm, and a much warmer bank.
Each bank runs on a sump, so each water change does 4 tanks at once, I usually start cold, turn a valve to warmer water as the the other is filled.
Each sump uses a float valve to keep from overflowing.(the red thing below)
In spring, summer, and fall old water goes straight to the garden, winter into the sink.
Takes about 10-20 minutes per bank, changing about 100 gallons per bank.
Each bank runs on a sump, so each water change does 4 tanks at once, I usually start cold, turn a valve to warmer water as the the other is filled.
Each sump uses a float valve to keep from overflowing.(the red thing below)
In spring, summer, and fall old water goes straight to the garden, winter into the sink.
Takes about 10-20 minutes per bank, changing about 100 gallons per bank.
I have 3 tanks, one is a 2fter which is easy. The other two is by the window so I pump water out the window, and then run a hose into the room and fill it up. Super easy for me luckily. All I have todo isset it up and do something else whilst waiting for the water to empty/fill up.
If I'm busy I do my 125 with a python and do my 5, 20, 36 & 40 by bucket while the python does its thing. If I have nothing to do I do the 5g manually and watch tv while the python plugs away unless plants in the yard need water inb which case I'll fill buckets until everything is watered.