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Originally Posted by dekstr  Hey Homer_simpson,
Nice drip acclimating method! I've been doing since I first started fishkeeping and it's really effective.
I do pretty much what you do except more lazy. I just tie a knot on the airline tube, suck some water in and clamp it down with the hood panel to the tank. I dump my fish in a bucket, put the bucket on a chair, let the water drip for 1 hour or so, net the fish and dump them in. Then I get an automatic 10% water change.
As for WCs, I have a massive bucket (like 50 gallons) in the basement that stores old peat filtered water. I pretty much use a 5 gal bucket and hose, vacuum clean one part of the tank, and dump the fish water onto the lawn. Then I fill up the bucket with the old peat water, check the temp with spare thermometer, add some hot tap water until the temp matches tank water.
So how does the python work? Does it drain the tank water into the drain? It seems faster than hose and bucket. |
Thanks dekstr. I never even thought of tieing a knot
but the clamp was only 69 cents and I really like it, so no big deal.
My understanding is that the the Python has a built in siphon and drains the dirty siphoned water directly into your sink drain while automatically refilling your tank with the tap water from the tap. Proper water temperature of the refill water is the only thing that concerns me. Right now I have the water sit in a couple of buckets for at least 24 hours or more in preparation for weekly water changes, that pretty much assures me that the water and tank temperature will be pretty close.