how much water do you put in rubbermaid

Just for the community's sake:

My Rubbermaid developed a fast leak yesterday and I can no longer use it for holding water... If you decide to use one of these containers make sure it's supported evenly.
 
Originally posted by Karlsbad


How do you connect to the mag pump to the python? Can a little pump pump 20 or 30 feet and then its specified maximum head?
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I'm back! I didn't check in this weekend... just now getting to the boards.

I have a Mag pump submerged in my aging tanks - one in the plainwater tank, another in one of my two big Rift Lake aging tanks. (They're connected by a U-shaped siphon tube, so when tank A gets drained, water flows into from tank B.)

The Mag pump has a 3' section of hose connected to the outlet. The hose has a garden-hose-thread nipple on the end, and a quick-connect adapter is attached to that. My Python hoses all have quick-connect adapters, so I can quickly unsnap the hose from the faucet (for starting the siphon) and the attache it to the Mag pump outlet. I keep the pumps on separate power strips, so each is switchable.

Make sense?

Jim
 
Originally posted by simbadda
I'm confused and new here, why would you be storing water in your garage? :confused:
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A lot of folks like to age thier water before adding it to the tank during water changes. Letting the water sit in an open container allows any chlorine to gas off over a week or so.

Others use reverse osmosis water and use the rubbermaid containers as a storage container of the water the R/O machine creates.

They're also useful in a pinch to transfer fish to temporarily due to illness, tank repair, tank overhaul, etc.

Tom
 
Also, if you age water you can make sure any mods you do to the water (e.g., adding buffers for Rift Lake fish) are done correctly before you add the water to the tank.

Another nice aspect is that you can closely match the water chemistry, temp, etc., of the aquarium which allows you to do massive water changes without dramatically changing the fishes' environment.

Jim
 
Also, if you age water you can make sure any mods you do to the water (e.g., adding buffers for Rift Lake fish) are done correctly before you add the water to the tank.
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Yeah what he said.
I do my weekly's and then immediatly re-fill the rubbermaid (30 gallon round x's 2) I keep an airstone and a heater in each. add my bicarbonate (kh too low in my tap water) I let the chlorine gas off, the water reach the right temp etc. and then I can do my water changes without any risk of changing tank parramiters. PH, KH, temp all perfectly matched to my tank. Although some people would reccomend differently, I don't add dechlorinator, after the water is aereated for a week, chlorine always tests at 0. I also use a mag pump and hoses to transport the water to the tank. If one were to look closely behind my 115 they would see a hole cut in the wall with a pvc liner. my hoses come through the hole from the utility room and right into the back of my aquarium hood. totally invisible. When the utility room is done, the sink will be directly below the hole in the wall, the rubbermaids will be beside the sink. and three show tanks and 6 utility tanks will be no more than 12 ft from the sink and the rubbermaids. I think JSchmidt was the one who suggested mag pump when I was setting up the system. Right now my basement isn't finished so the utility sink isn't in. if it weren't for the pump and barrel, I'd be carrying roughly 45 gallons of water down my basement stairs at least once a week. Instead, one carefully hidden garden hose does all of the work.
 
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