Python siphons...............
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cyberbeer65
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Pythons.....looks like I may just have to get one for myself.....I do the bucket slog and this method keeps me from getting any more tanks...lol...I just don't have the time with 3 kids demanding my attention to be changing water in any more tanks...!!
Right now I have a 29 (my largest)...3-10 gallon tanks...2-5 gallons, a 2 gallon quaranteen, 5-1 gallons with bettas, a 15 gallon underneath the 29 with a crop of baby rams in it.....I think that's it !
Question I have is....water temp....I have read that it's a bad idea to use warm water from the tap as there are more dissolved minerals and "stuff" in the warm water than there is in cold water. I have been filling 2-2 gallon buckets with cold tap water...letting them sit then pouring them into a 5 gallon, where I add the salt and conditioner....THEN...after it sits for a day or so I pour that into a 10 gallon which has a heater in it .....(pant....pant....pant !!)..... This actually has been working fine for me but I fill those two gallon buckets at LEAST once a day...sometimes twice !
Is it really OK to just run water straight from the tap into your tank ?? Do you use a digital thermometer to check the water temp...and just adjust it from the tap ?
This thing just sounds too easy to be true !! LOL !! There just HAS to be a catch !
Pythons.....looks like I may just have to get one for myself.....I do the bucket slog and this method keeps me from getting any more tanks...lol...I just don't have the time with 3 kids demanding my attention to be changing water in any more tanks...!!
Right now I have a 29 (my largest)...3-10 gallon tanks...2-5 gallons, a 2 gallon quaranteen, 5-1 gallons with bettas, a 15 gallon underneath the 29 with a crop of baby rams in it.....I think that's it !
Question I have is....water temp....I have read that it's a bad idea to use warm water from the tap as there are more dissolved minerals and "stuff" in the warm water than there is in cold water. I have been filling 2-2 gallon buckets with cold tap water...letting them sit then pouring them into a 5 gallon, where I add the salt and conditioner....THEN...after it sits for a day or so I pour that into a 10 gallon which has a heater in it .....(pant....pant....pant !!)..... This actually has been working fine for me but I fill those two gallon buckets at LEAST once a day...sometimes twice !
Is it really OK to just run water straight from the tap into your tank ?? Do you use a digital thermometer to check the water temp...and just adjust it from the tap ?
This thing just sounds too easy to be true !! LOL !! There just HAS to be a catch !
When I got my Pythom it took me a while to get the temp right. I found out that a 50-50 mix of hot and cold water was perfect. Just try it out, and after a while you should get it just like that.
Now....my tap is one of those one handle jobs....no seperate hot and cold handles.....do you find that your gh or kh...change with hot or cold from the tap ? I don't have a test kit for either of those parameters....though I do intend to get them some time in the not too distant future....so I can't check mine right from the tap at present to see for myself...
