Does everyone use warm water from the tap for a water change? Cause I'm cycling and have been using our well water, but once the fish are in there, I won't be able to add cold water anymore. Then I'll have to use our softened water because it needs to be warm? Can someone tell me how to handle this switch-over? Maybe I should be adding the softened water now, while I'm cycling?
Temperature of water for water change?
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Warm water from the tap may have a lot of things from the hot water heater in it. So you don't want to use that.
Some folks warm up a small amt in the microwave and add it to the larger amt and then check temp to get it close to tank temp.
Hope that helps.
Some folks warm up a small amt in the microwave and add it to the larger amt and then check temp to get it close to tank temp.
Hope that helps.
We don't have a hot water heater - we have a Paloma hot water on demand tank, so it heats water as needed. But I'm still concerned because we do have softened water. About the microwaved water, I received a 'forward' not too long ago saying there was a study in watering plants with microwaved water, and it wasn't favorable - so wouldn't that go for fish too? :huh: I'm so confused.
Even if you did have a house hot water heater, a few seconds of running the water would remove any issues of copper.
Does your water system have a tap in the supply line before the water softner? Most systems do, as part of the bypass line around it, that is used when media exchange is done on it. Draw your water from that and let the water warm up in the room or overnight to do your water changes with.
Does your water system have a tap in the supply line before the water softner? Most systems do, as part of the bypass line around it, that is used when media exchange is done on it. Draw your water from that and let the water warm up in the room or overnight to do your water changes with.
ratherbe said:
That study about Microwaved water was completely bogus, IIRC. (I can't remember the exact details off the top of my head, but I do remember being unimpressed.) In any case, you shouldn't use the water-softener-softened water because the ion-exchange resins "soften" water by replacing the ions responsible for GH/KH with Sodium.
I expect 5g buckets with cheap submersible heaters would work.
SirWired