You know what really pi$$es me off?

[Lobo.]

im glad that helped you plah!,

as for taking big swigs... i hope your kidding fishcatch, saltwater may be fine and cuts and scrapes fine in freshwater... but taking swigs is just asking for anything from diarrhea to salmonella, ya no, like dysentery and all that other crap, the stuff that makes us dump toxic chlorine into our water supply to prevent epidemics !?

once the freshwater has no chlorine, unless you've built up your immune system by always drinking water from the local stream, your playing roulette with getting really sick!

you might find this interesting... http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/waterbornediseases_t.htm


and plah, what is your job that puts you in contact with wild fish? that sounds interesting!

 

[icecubez189]

i have overflowed buckets many times before, sometimes im just so concentrated on vaccing the gravel and getting rid of the nasties that i don't pay attention to the water level

but just yesterday may have been the biggest water spill in history (for me at least). i have a 12 gallon plastic bin that i use to hold water to get it ready to be placed in an already siphone tank. i leave it next to the bath tub because its easier to drag out then pick up from inside the bath tub. i forgot that i was filling up the bin and left it there for a good half an hour probably. my sister screamed when the bathroom was overflowing with water, slowly creeping into her room and mine. everyone grabbed blankets and started to bucket the water out. it leaked to the 1st floor (we live on second) and finally basement. it was a ton of water. damage was minimal i guess, just need some primer and paint for the big water bubbles on the 1st floor. you can imagine my parents were furious, just giving them another reason to hate my fish keeping. i can't wait till i move out.....

 

[Lobo.]

that sounds like the water got in between the floors.... you might want to get it checked out to make shure that you didnt soak the wood in between the basement and 1st floor, and then the 1st floor and the 2nd floor, if you did you could have caused some major damage

 

[plah831]

and plah, what is your job that puts you in contact with wild fish? that sounds interesting!

I'm getting my Master's degree in marine ichthyology, so I'm out on boats or the beach catching wild fish all the time. We keep them for physiological research, so we need live specimens. Even the ones that we put in the freezer for reproductive and diet studies still come onto the boat live and kicking!

 

[mostlycichlids]

i have overflowed buckets many times before, sometimes im just so concentrated on vaccing the gravel and getting rid of the nasties that i don't pay attention to the water level

but just yesterday may have been the biggest water spill in history (for me at least). i have a 12 gallon plastic bin that i use to hold water to get it ready to be placed in an already siphone tank. i leave it next to the bath tub because its easier to drag out then pick up from inside the bath tub. i forgot that i was filling up the bin and left it there for a good half an hour probably. my sister screamed when the bathroom was overflowing with water, slowly creeping into her room and mine. everyone grabbed blankets and started to bucket the water out. it leaked to the 1st floor (we live on second) and finally basement. it was a ton of water. damage was minimal i guess, just need some primer and paint for the big water bubbles on the 1st floor. you can imagine my parents were furious, just giving them another reason to hate my fish keeping. i can't wait till i move out.....

sounds like you may want to invest in a python. you should consider putting it in the tub.

 

[gagaliya]

cant believe you guys are still doing the bucket/mouth thing in this day and age. Get a python, all your problems goes away.

 

[onepawnup]

1. python: build one buy one watever just get one Its by far the best money I have spent since i got into this hobby which was just this past january with a 35 gal tank . I now have 2 tens 1 55 gal and 1 180 gal (yeah I caught the bug in a bad way )

2. It only took One mouthfull of tank water to research and find a better way to start a siphon
A: while placing finger over end of hose fill large part with water. Let the finger up a bit and let the water fill the tube, when the tube is compleatly filled with water.. At this point put large end in the water and move the small end lower and let it go (into a bucket ) it will siphon without any nasty mouth

 

[kjf91004]

Python is better, but definitely not without incidence. I too have managed to have the hose come apart when filling the tank and ended up with a small pond in my kitchen. (at least it was clean water)

As far as the disease incidence goes, I kinda figure that if it doesn't kill me, it will make me stronger.

 

[guppygal]

Since this "make a total mess while doing your wc" affliction runs rampant in myself..

Do you think it is worth while to purchase a python for a 10 gallon tank? Seems to me that most have it for much larger tanks, yet it would make wc's so much easier. Any thoughts?

I have a 10 g too ... do we need to bother with pythons?

 

[wesleydnunder]

I did the bucket brigade for too many years to admit. I bought my first python in '89. I have three, now. I think that was probably the best invention for our hobby since silicone.

For a ten gallon it may seem like overkill, but who among us hasn't started with only one tank, then succumbed to the unfair ravages of MTS? Even if it never happens to you, and you can confine yourself to the one tank -good luck with that- a python still comes in handy.

Mark