Pet Fish & Aquarium Care Tips : How to Change Water in a Fish Tank
by Aquaboy on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | 25 Comments
Changing water in a fish tank can be done by scooping it out or through a siphoning process. Change aquarium fish tank water with tips from an aquarium shop owner in this free video on aquariums. Expert: Chris Simms Contact: www.aquatic-central.com Bio: Chris Simms owns Aquatic Central in San Francisco, Calif. Filmmaker: Bing Hu
so do i empty all the water or just a bit and if yes how much
im new to salt water aquriums i have kept a fresh water tank for a year now and just up graded to salt water this vid is not giving me the information to change the water in my salt water tank can anyone reply with some usefull information plz.
Uh, i’m thinking of getting tropical fish.
With using the siphon. When your mixing the conditioner with the water, how many buckets would you add to the tank and do you put 1 conditioner spill in 1 of the water buckets or everytime you add an extra bucket?
bet its a cory cat. Mine does the exact same thing
phythons are really bad for your fish l0l gets rid of all your bacteria my gravel never is phyphon but i have fish that pick at the gravel 24/7 and get the dirt in the water than the filter catches it, this way when i replace filter pads the bacteria will not cause the tank will re cycle how ever this style can only be used for cichlids and gold fish so you can’t use my method for tropicals(what ever you spell it lol)
lol the open sign says pen.
10 Gallon FTW.
lol 1:43 fish XD
thanks
Looks easy when it’s a little tank.
the bottom of the surface? lol
d many are inversely and directly related, hough all are tangently related.
i am n ot saying that water changes aren;t useful everyonce in a while, just saying that when used on a schedule, such as they are in the expert village videos, they are detrimental to maintaining the stability of your aquarium.
need a cheep way to remove nutrients?
get rid of some fish, or feed less.
if your use a better filter, or a different media, then you will not need water changes any more.
water aren’t “detrimental” always, but a water change, should only be a temporary fix to a temporary problem, when used constantly because you didn’t use adequeate filtration, it is removing beneficial bacterium and disrupting th equilibrium, and that is detrimental.
to give an example, a reef tank. the salinity in it has every element known to man in a certain concentration.
change that water, and you WILL disrupt a few of the eleental balances.
each element plays an important role, an
i dont meen to sound like a parot….but, care to elaborate furthur as to why they are needed?
nutrients?
replaceing trace elements?
removing so-called “unremovable solutes and solids”?
water changes we all need to do them no matter what filtration system you have so saying a water change is detrimental is wrong.
care to elaborate?
shut up you fool.
never mind the website he gives, join a aquarist forum, like reefcentral, their you will get the BEST advice possible
well, all aquarist( good ones at least), excepting certain circumstances, look for stability in their tanks.
they believe that the key to maintaining a tank properly is stability in parameters.
water changes are done in tanks that have too many nutrients.
if you have a strang enough filtration system, those nutrients will be taken up.
theirfore negating the need for a waterchange, and increasing the stability of water paramaters.
hth
What makes you say that?
You buy a small heater and drop it into the container you mix your water in, set it to the same temperature of your tank, and give it at least a half hour to heat up and set. It’s easier to get water from your sink and turn it until it feels about the same temp as your tank… It saves some time and money, at least. And please- always mix water and conditioner or water, salt mix, and conditioner prior to the water change. It’s better to get your water ready the day before so you’re ready to go.
thats what your mom said to me now stfu and watch the video ur not entertaining anyone its just annoying
When he sais about cleaing the gravel. If you have smaller sediment/gravel, then you should buy a gravel cleaner. As other wise the gravel is sucked up the hose. A gravel cleaner is just a kind of large weird shaped end for a hose that disperses the water flow. (sounds complicated)
Good video tho
water changes are detrimental to a fish tank. if you need to do one, you are not properly filtering your tank.
Thats what she said.