fishieperson321
It's 10g tank, yes? It takes less than 10 minutes to do a water change.
NO MORE EXCUSES!
It's 10g tank, yes? It takes less than 10 minutes to do a water change.
NO MORE EXCUSES!
Monthly Water Chanes???
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What makes me lazy? The act that I go to school and work a part time job and THEN on top o that only get 4 hours of sleep at night??? :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: It takes alot more time or me to do a water change because I have back problems and can't lift but about one gallon of water at a time!! I always change 50% of it so that is 5 gallons!! I have to take it all of the way down to the creek to pour it out which is abut 50 feet from my house.
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Sorry, I didn't know this was a pity party. :bday:
I would suggest getting a python if changing the water in your 10 gallon tank is that much of a chore... lugging around buckets is old school.
Then again I do change 50% weekly with buckets on my 29 gallon, run a business (maybe only 60-70 hours a week), usually cook dinner, spend time with my family, keep up my house, and I find time to sleep, eat, play pool once a week, read the paper (OK that might not count, since when I'm reading I'm usually doing something else I have to do) and go fishing once in awhile.
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Sorry, but everyone has problems, and I hear you that occasionally life gets in the way. You should make taking care of a living creature in your posession correctly a priority, and if you can't do so, you need a hobby where your neglect doesn't result in the suffering or sickness of an innocent creature.
I would suggest getting a python if changing the water in your 10 gallon tank is that much of a chore... lugging around buckets is old school.
Then again I do change 50% weekly with buckets on my 29 gallon, run a business (maybe only 60-70 hours a week), usually cook dinner, spend time with my family, keep up my house, and I find time to sleep, eat, play pool once a week, read the paper (OK that might not count, since when I'm reading I'm usually doing something else I have to do) and go fishing once in awhile.
:hi:
Sorry, but everyone has problems, and I hear you that occasionally life gets in the way. You should make taking care of a living creature in your posession correctly a priority, and if you can't do so, you need a hobby where your neglect doesn't result in the suffering or sickness of an innocent creature.
I really can't afford a python right now. I am going to quit my job so that I can get more sleep and do my aquarium maintenance.
Man, Joephys, you are SUCH a geekjoephys said:
Yes, you are correct and I didn't mention it for exactly the reasons you listed. People who have the knowledge and money to set up a system for that are usually the people who *do* do water changes, or at least understand the importance of them.
Geeks! I are one, too
Roan
Why do you need to carry it to the creek?
When I use the old fashioned bucket method its so I can throw the water in the flower bed. Great for my wifes flowers.
Do yourself a favor and keep your job. Get rid of the fish tank.
In less than an hours time with a 5 gallon bucket and gravel vac I can change 50% of the water in a 55, a 75 and a 20 gallon tank. Thats approximately 70 gallons of water. With the python its even quicker.
I went the I'll change the water when I get to it route. Luckily I caught it before to many fish died. Do a search and read some posts about High Nitrates. Mine were off the chart. It took 10 days of daily water changes from 25% at 1st to 50% after 5 days to get them back to the normal range.
Whats easier? Once a week 5 gallons or everyday water changes for 10 days every couple of months?
When I use the old fashioned bucket method its so I can throw the water in the flower bed. Great for my wifes flowers.
Do yourself a favor and keep your job. Get rid of the fish tank.
In less than an hours time with a 5 gallon bucket and gravel vac I can change 50% of the water in a 55, a 75 and a 20 gallon tank. Thats approximately 70 gallons of water. With the python its even quicker.
I went the I'll change the water when I get to it route. Luckily I caught it before to many fish died. Do a search and read some posts about High Nitrates. Mine were off the chart. It took 10 days of daily water changes from 25% at 1st to 50% after 5 days to get them back to the normal range.
Whats easier? Once a week 5 gallons or everyday water changes for 10 days every couple of months?
It's too late!!! I already quit my job!!! I can only carry 1 gallon of water at a time because of my bad back!!! I live with my parents so I can't just pour water on the ground!! I did that and they got mad at me because the grass turned greener in one spot!!! We have no flower beds and with my bad back, I can't hold a bucket steady to pour it in the toilet or the stand up shower without getting it eveywhere!! :shark:
I'm sorry but thats too funny. Your parents got mad because you made the grass greener. I don't mean to laugh at your situation, but that is funny. You could get a sink attachment and use a hose to fill the tank. Do you have a floor drain in a laundry room or basement? You could pour the water down that. Maybe a patch of dirt some where around the house that isn't growing grass? Seems to me there has to be some better way to get rid of the water than taking it to a creek.
