cogburn
Aquarium Advice Freak
suction with a python is 500% better than a typical gravel vac
HUH,
Python IS a gravel vac and you vacuum the gravel while you are changing water.
I add conditioner before adding water when working alone. Sometimes my daughter helps and puts the conditioner right into the stream from my Python as it fills the tank.
...they waste a bit of water during the draining process but its totally worth it...
I think they meant 7 to 1 the other way. 7 parts aquarium water to 1 part tap water.
I have to agree that it isn't 7 tap and 1 aquarium. I drain 45 gal out of my tanks upstairs into the lawn. We don't have 315 gal of water pooled in our front yard afterwards.
Well, now that I am on my soap box I might as well finish.
Even if it does use 7 times the water, which I seriously doubt, so what?
Unless you have a severly limited water supply or pay an astronomical fee for your water....
We have a tank in the basement and two tanks on the main floor. I call the tanks in the living room the "upstairs tanks" for easy reference even though it's on the main floor. We have such poor water pressure that the Python won't suck water out of the tanks in the living room from the kitchen faucet. I have to connect the Python to a garden hose outside. It then drains into the lawn. Takes about 20 minutes to empty the tanks 50% (roughly 45 gal). I would have to be wasting 315 gal of water, or 15 gal per minute. My water pressure is not great enough for 15.75 gal per minute. More like 3 to 4 per minute. Yeah, our water pressure is awful. Even our garden hose pressure isn't as good as others. Refilling does not waste any water at all. I attach the Python to my kitchen tank for refilling so I can alter the water temp.
no it wastes NO water when you refill... you close the valve and all the water goes straight into the tank... honestly tho... even if its one gallon of tap per 7 gallons... thats not all that bad but 7 gallons of tap per 1 gallon of aquarium theres just no way my faucet does not run out 70 gallons when i change 10 on my 29 gallon no way