What's Causing My PH Levels to Rise!?

[chub04]

I was actually thinking about

Smaller and more frequent is more consistent. You could age in a trash can and use a powerhead to transfer water to the aquarium. Use the Python to drain the tank and fill the can.

I was actually thinking about getting a powerhead anyways to speed up the siphon of my tank. Maybe I'll explore that option some more.

 

[Bunsen Honeydew]

I was going to do something similar, but since I run a sump already, and that has an overflow, I will soon be doing a continuous change. I just need to do some plumbing first.

 

[chub04]

Yeah I'm currently renting out a basement apartment so I that limits my options as to what I can do. I'm planning on moving in the next year or so and hopefully then I can have my own fish room and do something similar to that.

 

[OrionGirl]

I'd go for as big and as frequent as you can manage, honestly. I do weekly 50-90% changes on most of my tanks. I know a lot of people who do daily water changes of 50%+. i don't have the time for that, but it's not a bad thing to do more water changes.

 

[Frank Castle]

Yeah my fish don't seem stressed. Would doing two 30-40% water changes a week be better than one 50-75% change a week in this situation? Will that help shorten the range of change in PH? And is there another way to age water for water changes without using buckets? Ha I hate buckets, which is why I got the Python.

I 2nd the trash can method, but also want to throw out there that they make portable sump-pumps as well that will fit a standard garden hose over the outflow