Water changes

I do weekly water changes, and I love it. My fish are hand friendly so it is a time to really check them out, gage growth rates and such. My shrimp and cories are also hand friendly, so I have 5 shrimp on my hand at a time lol. I love the hobby, I love my fish, and in order to have healthy guppy babies, I have to do water changes. I don't mind it at all, in fact, it feels good to do something nice for my fish when they give me so much entertainment and peace.

Maribeth :-)
 
andy110 said:
I have never seen those python things in australia. I can't belive u guys r filling ur tanks with tap water!!
I fill 3 80l bins every monday and let them sit with small dose of prime.
Then every wed i take out interal sponge filter and clean,throw a hose out the window run downstaris suck and syphon ,run back upstairs, vacum gravel then re-assemble interal filter and fill with water from bins with a bucket!!!!
I live by myself so it really sux!!
I scrub inside of tank when i do this and lids etc
than finaly clean all outside glass
Massive job when its a 6 foot tank!!
But after i am all finished i can sit back and look at a perfectly clear tank and it makes it all worth it:)
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theres nothing wrong with tap water...just use dechlor
 
I don't mind doing water changes at all. I actually have a hard time going a whole week without doing a water change. I usually do at least 2 water changes a week, 25-40% change with the python. I use a digital thermometer to get the water exactly the same as what was taken out. That may change when I have more tanks setup though.
 
I liked doing WCs before, but at the beginning of the summer I moved into a townhouse with lots of stairs! And I my two tanks are on different floors. I also have to mix tap with distilled to cut down on TDS and pH, so I can't mix the water for both tanks in a single bucket unless I want to carry it up and down the stairs. Mixing separately is more of a hassle and I still have to carry the gallons of distilled water upstairs for the second tank.
 
Tell that to the breeders and Discus keepers that do daily 50% (or more) water changes. ;)
Simply not true.
 
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