Water changes?

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I like water to go to the sumps before the tanks, where I use a float valve (the red thing in the pic), I have 3 or more tanks on each sump.
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My biggest problem was getting distracted while filling and overflowing tanks or sumps, until I added the float valves.
I have 3 sumps, so 3 float valves and can fill 3 banks of tanks at once if needed.
 
Thanks for the input guys! I've got an attatchment to attach a hose to my faucet, and I've got a 'temperature gun' that I always use to check temps when I'm filling up buckets to refill my tank, works really well to get to the exact temp. of the tank. Only thing I will probably have to do is attach a second hose to reach down into my basement where the tank is, a single 30ft hose will only get to the bottom of my stairs.. Haha.
 
aldiaz33 said:
I use Seachem Safe (the powder form of prime) and I treat the entire volume of the tank, not just the water I am replacing. I bought the 1kg (2.2lbs container) for $30 and it treats 200,000 gallons. That's not a typo...1Teaspon treats 250 gallons. It's a lot more concentrated than the liquid version.

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I use safe as well. 1/2 teaspoon for a 50% change on my tank. The 1kg tub should last me 32 years. Lol.


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Just curious, don't you have a basement sink like the one below to get water from, as opposed to running up and down stairs.
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The PVC pipe in the pic sends water straight to my tanks from the basement tap, takes 5 minutes to add 100 gals, when the red valve is open, I adjust temp, when adjusted and closed it's filling tanks..
 
duanes said:
Just curious, don't you have a basement sink like the one below to get water from, as opposed to running up and down stairs.
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The PVC pipe in the pic sends water straight to my tanks from the basement tap, takes 5 minutes to add 100 gals, when the red valve is open, I adjust temp, when adjusted and closed it's filling tanks..
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I Don't have a basement sink like that. There is obviously water running to the washine machine, but it's either gonna run hot, or gonna run cold. Can't change the temp. I suppose some guys would just add some hot water and some cold water to even out the temperature, but I'd just assume add an extra hose and fill from the tap upstairs and I can adjust the temperature exactly where I want it, fill up the tank, coil up the hose and call it good. Good thought nonetheless though.
 
I'm going to have a fish room set up at my new place and I'm wondering about water changes also.
Instead of 50% a week, would 10% a day or 20% every other day be ok? The faucet will be filtered city water. The house will be filtered and there will be another filter for the sink in the fish room. I wonder if I could avoid chemical dechlorinators that way.

If I was changing out water a few times a week, might that be too much chemical for the fish?
 
CopperHearts said:
I'm going to have a fish room set up at my new place and I'm wondering about water changes also.
Instead of 50% a week, would 10% a day or 20% every other day be ok? The faucet will be filtered city water. The house will be filtered and there will be another filter for the sink in the fish room. I wonder if I could avoid chemical dechlorinators that way.

If I was changing out water a few times a week, might that be too much chemical for the fish?
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little bits everyday is just fine. that's currently what I'm doing. I believe someone once did an experiment where he had two tanks, same fish, same diet. he did little WCs everyday on one tank, larger and more sporadic WCs on the other. he found the one with frequent and smaller WCs had better growth.

you can run all those filters and then test the water afterwards but imo it's much easier to just use a dechlorinator. if it was bad, you'd see a lot more unhealthy fish on this forum..
 
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