How do you refill your tank?

I don't think I will need to worry about a holding tank. It's just that some days our water smells more like chemicals than others.

It's funny how neighboring cities with the same water source can have two totally different smelling and tasting finished products. I grew up in a neighboring city, and I always liked their water. Now that I moved upstream, I can barely stand to let this city's water touch my lips.
 
A water change for us is around 40 gallons. We use a small pump to get our R/O water back in the tank. No 5 gallon buckets..
 
TFo -
It's always a good idea to request a printout of your tap water's parameters from your provider.
If they balk at it(which at times they tend to do) tell them that you have a child with allergies in the household and the family doctor as ask that one be provided.

Len
 
Well, my Python arrived yesterday, and I got to use it this afternoon. WOW! What a great invention. No more buckets in my future.

I went ahead and ordered the Filstar XP3 that so many people are raving about at the same time as the Python. I don't have anything to compare it to since it's my first canister, but it sure is a nice kit. The only thing I added was some of their stars for bio filtration.
 
Just make sure the sink you are using is rated for the amount of outflow you will be creating when you use the "DRAIN" setting. My first sink did NOT (it had less than 2GPM capacity) and I had to clean up... but only once. IF your sink can't handle it, use this handy method:

Take the far end of the Python to your toilet. Flush once. Lift both lid and ring, place end of Python down in bowl, lower ring to keep hose in place, leave lid up for monitoring.

Take gravel vac end of Python to tank. Take tube and a couple of feet of hose and submerge. Turn open end of tube toward ceiling, let tube and hose fill with water. Lift tube, open end up, into the air. Water will begin to run down hose, after tube is about half empty, push whole tube back underwater. Vacuum as normal.

When completed, coil Python slowly from vacuum end to drain water into toilet.
 
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I have two normal gravel vacs, and just got appropriately sized threaded hose barbs and adapters from hose barb threads to garden hose threads. I have an adapter that goes from hose to DI column and use that for refill. The flow rate through the DI column is pretty slow, and I've found that the heaters on my tanks turn on and keep the water temp from going down.

If you put threaded parts together that don't have gaskets, you need plumbing tape to seal them.
 
I pretty much do the same thing as djlen, but I am most interested to know the best way to 'set' the temp at the tap when refilling. My hot drifts so much that what was a nice 72 when I started filling becomes a scalding 84+ 30 seconds later. So I'm running back and forth constantly tweaking the faucets. There's gotta be a gadget to regulate temp out of the faucet :)
 
Until yesterday i have always used buckets to do water changes on my tank! That was hard work i tell you! I do weekly changes of a third on my 100 UK gallon and the top of my tank is about 5' above the ground! Anyway yesterday i invested in a piece of hose and a tap connector. Took about an hour to siphon out (didnt suck hard enough obviously and couldnt be bothered emptying the pipe to start again). I then filled it up again slowly over about two hours putting in water conditioner as i went. All a lot easier and less work than the bucket method!:D
 
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