Converted another one!

[aquabee]

I add the entire dose into the tank and then add tap water directly thereafter.

+1.

[eklikewhoa]

I would have much rather a gift of wealth

[Totenkampf]

i have never used an inline heater before, do they have enough heating capacity that they can actually make enough of a difference in the water temp. coming from your house plumbing when you consider that the residence time around the heating element might not be very long? i know that you can get electric or gas 'instant' water heaters but these things get wicked hot. i have a liquid hydrocarbon in water project that i am working on right now and in order to cool it we have to run it through a 20' coil of 1/2" tubing which is bathed inside a metal shell (like a reactor) which has plant cooling water running counter current at a high flow rate through 1" input/outputs. We have successfully heated vapor samples by passing it over an exposed heating element but vapors are far easier to heat or cool. if the inline heater wouldnt work then it may be possible to run a waterproof heat tape like what is used around plant roots down through the middle of the snake and allow it to warm up a bit before you start the WC. it also may not be worth the effort to do so. i tend to overthink things.

what kind of quick-disconnects are most people using on their carbon snakes? i definately want to make one, i just need to not allow myself to turn it into some sort of AI powered automated water changing robot or something

[eklikewhoa]

I've never really thought about it all since I don't heat mine going back in.

I've let my tropheus tanks go from 80 down to 65-70 with minimal problems but they are still with me and breeding like crazy.

[Totenkampf]

trophs can probably handle the temp swing much better than the SA dwarf cichlids and cardinal / rummynose tetras that I have...but maybe they are more resilient than i think they are. i have had ick break out with these fish from temp swings though.

[eklikewhoa]

when it's absolutely freezing outside I let the water trickle back in slower and if really worried I put a heater in the main tank to warm up the water. I've done my CRS tank the same way but not so extreme with no problems.

If you let the water run for a while it's not as cold but you could always do smaller percentage if it worries you.

[Darbex]

When I kept FW I would just pump the water from the kitchen faucet. I would dump the necessary amount of amquel and then proceed to add tap water. I kept discus, rummy, and etc with no effect. When I switched them to RO/DI water sometimes it would be cold and I wouldnt mess with the temp and there was no bad reaction to it. A lot of fish react positively to it actually it simulates a cold rain shower and can help with spawning.

[fishman1]

We is gifted... we serve a purpose, whatever it is, sure hope it's not to do water changes.

Hey gifted ones wanna come over to do water changes. I'll sit back while you guys smell and taste the water

[rmalford]

When I kept FW I would just pump the water from the kitchen faucet. I would dump the necessary amount of amquel and then proceed to add tap water. I kept discus, rummy, and etc with no effect. When I switched them to RO/DI water sometimes it would be cold and I wouldnt mess with the temp and there was no bad reaction to it. A lot of fish react positively to it actually it simulates a cold rain shower and can help with spawning.

+1 on the cold water helping with spawning

[Totenkampf]

cool, i won't consider it an issue unless its super cold. i have replaced water heaters, and they are full of junk that i wouldnt want in my tank, which is too bad cuz hot water has less capacity to maintain CL2 in solution. now that i think about it, it would make more sense just to add an additional valve to my canister filter return line so that i could mix the incoming fresh water with the water thats already circulating in the aquarium. If I used the catalytic carbon (and i will be) and was really industrious, i could also be draining the aquairum at a similar rate so that the water volume never falls much and that when certainly minimize disruption. you would just have to calculate how long it would take to get the required water change percentage at the flowrates of water going in and out. cool, now i can add flow indicators to the system! maybe even smart ones that communicate wirelessly to a data collection system. maybe it wont then attempt to kill john connor. maybe

what type of hose disconnects are being used with the garden hoses?

[Darbex]

Yeah when I add new SW most of my fish will actually go and swim by the new water even though its like 5 - 10 degrees colder.

[rmalford]

Today's water change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u66L4iuq9BE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I did have a few fish on their sides and right about then a large pleco and venustus swam into the water change hose.

[aquabee]

Nice, M-alford! They look great.

[eklikewhoa]

Some of my old shots during waterchanges....







How happy they look soon after.

[aquabee]

Hey gifted ones wanna come over to do water changes. I'll sit back while you guys smell and taste the water

Ha! Lil guy's got jokes! :)