cleaning question

You are worried about the water refilling the tank straight from the tap,
chlorinated....all you need to do is put the dechlor in the tank before you
switch it to fill.
It's not going to harm your fish (adding it first).
When you can do water changes on a few tanks in 15 mintues and not use
*one*
bucket.....water changes become a weekly breeze!

Boy, that sure would save a lot of work. But I'm still skeptical. Are you
doing it that way? No adverse effects to the fish? I'm a newbie and
everything I've read has advised to treat water before you add it, and some
even add that you should aerate it and age it first! Thanks, Cheryl

15 - 20% water changes straight from the tap (temperature close
to tank temperature, of course) will not harm fish.. No dechlor
necessary. Over that, you should use the dechlor.
If you want to be sure, there are cheap test strips for
chlorine/chloromine
that you can use.

Many of us have enough tanks and experience to confirm.

bob

Subject: cleaning question
From: "Granny"
Date: 9/5/2003 12:37 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

On 4-Sep-2003, (TYNK 7) wrote:

Your making more work for yourself by using bucket to refill your tanks.
You are worried about the water refilling the tank straight from the tap,
chlorinated....all you need to do is put the dechlor in the tank before you
switch it to fill.
It's not going to harm your fish (adding it first).
When you can do water changes on a few tanks in 15 mintues and not use
*one*
bucket.....water changes become a weekly breeze!

Boy, that sure would save a lot of work. But I'm still skeptical. Are you
doing it that way? No adverse effects to the fish? I'm a newbie and
everything I've read has advised to treat water before you add it, and some
even add that you should aerate it and age it first! Thanks, Cheryl


Yes, I have drained the tanks with my Python, *then* added the dechlor, then
refilled the tank.
Have done this for many years and never a problem.
Before I had the Python I would dose the tank with dechlor before adding fresh
water from a bucket.
Your main concern will be to get the faucet temp as close aspossible to the
tank water. It's actually not that hard.
I have a good idea of what faucet temp is close to the tank temp, then I get a
jar of tank water and place it next to sink.
I check the sink's temp, then the jar's temp. It doesn't take but a minute to
find the right temp.