question bout your water change

[JMorris271]

Were is the best place to get and return the water involved in your water change? I understand that you need them but I am not sure where they should take place.
My tank will have a sump under the aquarium.
Non supersized gizmo return setups will not be helpful in my setup. Primitives only.

Thanks a lot.

 

[m0nkie]

most of times I drain out of the sump where the drain pipes are located. I'm keeping detritus inside the fuge for pods. The return section is fairly clean.

currently I'm battling cyano so I'm draining out of the DT. I use the tubes to filter the sandbed.

 

[JMorris271]

I was thinking in the sump but I didn't know if the change would be taking the level lower than the overflow level will allow but only want to change out about 15 gals a week. I'll pretty sure I have that in the sump.
That's some kind of gizmo you have there.

 

[shesacharmer]

I just put a dirty water pump into my DT and run a hose to a pvc drain outside the window. Then I use a clean water pump in my salt mix barrel and put the water directly into my DT. It seems to work.

 

[formsix]

We have a really low-tech system here. We drain water mainly from the DT into 5g buckets that get dumped out, using a small piece of tubing. We can drain about 15g of our tank's 100g volume that way before exposing rock (and some sponges are right below that line, so we're careful never to drain too much). If we want to change more water, we can scoop another 10-15g or so out of the sump.

New salt water gets dumped into the return section of the sump and pumped back up to the DT -- mainly because it doesn't involve lifting buckets 5 feet in the air to dump them into the DT. Plus, I guess less crap gets stirred up that way, and the new water gets to mix a little with the current water before it gets to the DT.

 

[m0nkie]

I was thinking in the sump but I didn't know if the change would be taking the level lower than the overflow level will allow but only want to change out about 15 gals a week. I'll pretty sure I have that in the sump.
That's some kind of gizmo you have there.

it's very convenient to use. found on amazon or any petmart/petco. Attach one end to a fosset. The fosset acts as a pump and initiate the siphon. use the other end to lift the surface of the sand in order to clean. it sucks the detritus out and the sand slowly falls back down. the tube is up to 50ft. waste water dumps right into the streets. My saltwater tank is nearby with its own tube. No bucket lifting involved

 

[kmbyrnes]

I marked my DT at 5,10,15 and 20 gallons. I use a pump and dedicated garden hose to pump the dirty water outside. Clean water is in a Brute and goes into the return section of the sump. No lifting required and takes about 10 minutes.
Wish the rest of tank maintenance were that easy.

 

[A sea K]

I drain from the DT and return new water to the return section of the sump. Have done it that way on all three of my tanks, no real reasoning to it but it seems to work just fine.

 

[igot2gats]

it's very convenient to use. found on amazon or any petmart/petco. Attach one end to a fosset. The fosset acts as a pump and initiate the siphon. use the other end to lift the surface of the sand in order to clean. it sucks the detritus out and the sand slowly falls back down. the tube is up to 50ft. waste water dumps right into the streets. My saltwater tank is nearby with its own tube. No bucket lifting involved

Yeah, they're called Python. It's the best, and easiest siphon I've ever used.

Definitely worth the investment, if you ask me. They even sell extensions if you don't have a sink nearby.

It's what I use for doing water changes as well.

It's too bad SW faucets don't exist, so you could do a full water change with it, like you can with FW. :jester:

http://www.amazon.com/Python-Aquari...&qid=1413986038&sr=8-3&keywords=python+siphon

 

[discoreefer]

I don't currently have a tank setup. But I always sucked water out while vacuuming my sand bed to get water out. And then put the new water in through my sump, figured it gave it more change to mix around with the other water before hitting the DT.

 

[Vinny Kreyling]

I look @ it this way --
Water out from where it's convenient & back the same way.
Unless I want to vacuum the sand or suck up some detritus.

 

[tmz]

For me it's the sump The sump or any other an area of brisk flow for new water addition. If the water matches the tank water and it's well mixed and aerat4ed it shouldn't matter,though Removal anywhere convenient . Small frequent changes work for me ;1% per day