Water Changes

[Jennkp]

Hey everyone! What in your opinion is the easiest way to change you water? Since I live in an apartment with open floor plan the kitchen is far from the tank in the living room & a gallon at a time is getting old! Especially with my little boy "helping". I feel like my bb is dying in the time it takes to complete a 50-70% water change since the filter is unplugged. I'm sure I'm not, I'm just I over analyzing.

 

[Convict2161]

Hey everyone! What in your opinion is the easiest way to change you water? Since I live in an apartment with open floor plan the kitchen is far from the tank in the living room & a gallon at a time is getting old! Especially with my little boy "helping". I feel like my bb is dying in the time it takes to complete a 50-70% water change since the filter is unplugged. I'm sure I'm not, I'm just I over analyzing.

What size thank and why the large water changes? Have you looked into the Aqueon water changer, makes life a breeze!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000YAJKL6


I have a 75 gallon and do 25-30% water changes weekly. Once in awhile I'll be a 50%.

 

[Jennkp]

I have a 30 gallon the reason for the large water changes was because my nitrites were staying high but no ammonia & nitrates were 10-20 ppm. While dealing with that I went ahead & switched the gravel to sand. I thought I had killed all of the bb since it took me a out 3 hours to do & even though I left some of the water from the tank in the next morning I had nothing. Everything was zero. The next afternoon though the ammonia had picked back up to .50 nitrates & nitrites were 0. So I did another large 60% or so to lower the ammonia & in 24 hours there was no ammonia nitrites & 10 nitrate. I'm fixing to test the parameters since it been about 48 hours since that test & we introduced new fish.

 

[Jennkp]

Ammonia 0ppm Nitrite 0ppm Nitrate 5ppm. Looks great! I'm thrilled to know I didn't kill the bb! Even though we lost 3 fish within 24 hours of bringing them home. 2 were struggling when we got them & pet supermarket was so busy we didn't notice until we got them home. The other I'm not sure what happened to him.

 

[Convict2161]

Are you doing a fish in cycle?

 

[Jennkp]

Yes I was.

 

[frank98284]

Aquarin water changer look on amazon.com thats what i use

 

[floridaboy89]

for the fish-in cycle, dose it matter what kind or how many fish in the tank? its a 55 gal

 

[Convict2161]

Yes I was.

My advise to you is to just keep doing what your doing. Sounds like you pretty much have it under wraps. Good luck with the rest of your cycle.

 

[Convict2161]

for the fish-in cycle, dose it matter what kind or how many fish in the tank? its a 55 gal

I don't want to hijack the OP's thread. I'm answering because she's doing a fish in cycle and your question is on that topic.

If its a fish in cycle, usually it's done with fish your hoping to keep after the cycle. I did a 55 gallon African cichlid fish in cycle and have most of them to this day.

 

[Jennkp]

It's okay! But what I did was started with 6 Zebra danios & 4 died. One before I even got it home. A lot of people use them just for cycling but I however love how spunky they are. So this weekend when pet supermarket got a new order in I went & got 6 more. Unfortunately we only left with 5 bc the employee dropped one on the floor. I rescued him but didn't notice he was ours. 2 died before we got them home. My advice is get a hardy fish you want to keep. Now we have 1 angel 3 albino Cory's which are my favorite in the tank. Then we adopted a rainbow shark which we are moving to a larger tank in the next 2 months.

 

[Convict2161]

It's okay! But what I did was started with 6 Zebra danios & 4 died. One before I even got it home. A lot of people use them just for cycling but I however love how spunky they are. So this weekend when pet supermarket got a new order in I went & got 6 more. Unfortunately we only left with 5 bc the employee dropped one on the floor. I rescued him but didn't notice he was ours. 2 died before we got them home. My advice is get a hardy fish you want to keep. Now we have 1 angel 3 albino Cory's which are my favorite in the tank. Then we adopted a rainbow shark which we are moving to a larger tank in the next 2 months.

Sounds good! Sorry you loss some fishes

 

[Jennkp]

It's okay! I'm glad I've had this experience so that way ill know what to expect with the 60 gallon. I hate the danios died but they seemed pretty weak when we got them. It was all the very small maybe 1/2 inch long.

 

[Convict2161]

It's okay! I'm glad I've had this experience so that way ill know what to expect with the 60 gallon. I hate the danios died but they seemed pretty weak when we got them. It was all the very small maybe 1/2 inch long.

I hear ya, I used giant danios as dither fish in my African cichlid tank it worked for about a week

 

[Jennkp]

Oh no! I love cichlids I just don't want to be limited to one type of fish. I don't think my tank is over stocked but I'd love to add a fish or two with color that will mesh with my current stock. Now the are all white & gray except the shark but he's taken up the big tiki to the right.

 

[Convict2161]

Run off your stock again sorry.

 

[Jennkp]

Sorry! 3 albino corys, 5 danios, 1 nickel sized angel, & the rainbow shark that's being moved. We also have about 12 ghost shrimp.