Water changes!

[DB junkie]

I use a drip system, but made the mistake of toying around with aging water and measuring the TDS VS normal drip water, and now I'm not sure why I should continue using a drip system.......

Maybe I'm missing something, but at this point a drip seems foolish. I must be missing something, or misinterpreting something cause there's no way we could possibly be spoon fed BS year after year about how great they are IF they aren't.

Anyone else ever measured TDS of drip water VS aged?

 

[petspoiler]

will it be shameful for me to admit i have never measured TDS?

 

[dingoofus]

I prefer manual (although I have never used a drip system so I am bias) because I usually manually remove an algae from the glass and tank before a water change, so any bits of algae I have knocked of and is now floating in the water can hopefully be picked up when I do the water change.

 

[Sea_Let_E]

manual...

even if i had a drip i'd still do manual wcs to get up the crud out of the sand

 

[petspoiler]

auto drip would just protect fish from human inconsistency, and Life circumstances that can really mess up schedules.
that's why I'd like to get something in place.

but I agree, would still do some manual on regular basis.

 

[ShadowStryder]

Manually, have for 26 years and always will. Love the interaction and getting my hands wet.

 

[petspoiler]

lthere was the time I had to go in hospital, out of town, and came back to dead fish.

 

[snake8myelbo]

Auto drip on the big tank and manual on the smaller tanks.

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[PGill]

Manual, but on my big tank all I have to do is close the valve to the tank and open a valve to a pipe that leads outside and then turn the faucet on right above the sump. Changes out 100 gallons in about 5 minutes or so.

 

[00kevin]

Manual, but on my big tank all I have to do is close the valve to the tank and open a valve to a pipe that leads outside and then turn the faucet on right above the sump. Changes out 100 gallons in about 5 minutes or so.

You run tap straight to your sump? Wouldn't chloro affect your cycle?


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