STOP WASTING Time & MONEY! Use This!! | Fish Keeping #shorts

Freshwater aquarium water changes don't need to take forever, and you don't need to carry a heavy bucket back and forth! Stop wasting time and money and use a pump for your water changes.

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[CichlidCharmer]

Do you use a submersible pump? If not, how do you do water changes? Let us know!

[dascudder]

Hey Stella. Best thing I bought was a 3000L per hour pond pump. Drains 2/3 of my 118 gallon out quick snap. Flip it round and drop the pump into a 250L water but full of RO water. Sit sipping tea whilst it does all the heavy lifting for me (has to be Tea, it's what us Brits sip you see)

[Parkbenchaquatics]

Hey Dave, I had a quick question. Do you use cichlid lake salt? OK I’ve been using it for years. Usually I pre-mix it with a scoop of aquarium, water and pour it as the waters filling up the tank to avoid concentrations. Occasionally, I will dump each teaspoon into the tank because of time.
Yesterday I noticed something alarming while using the pre-mix method in the cup of water. It was a red solo cup, filled 3/4 of the way full with aquarium water with 3 teaspoons of Cichlid lake salt for roughly 40 gallons.
With in eight seconds of adding the salt the temperature of the cup jumped 25°. I noticed it because of the plastic and thought that I had accidentally used tap water from the sink. I dumped it, redid the same thing and got the same result. In the past I’ve gotten this white almost slime coat, looking thing, but not evenly distributed enough to be a slime coat almost looking burn marks when putting straight into the tank without putting water in it first. I’m pretty convinced now that if people aren’t pre-mixing and are just dumping it straight in that there’s a high probability that you’re burning your fish…… now I will say I’ve done the straight into your tank method a bunch and never really had any severe consequence but I’ve always had pretty large tanks. I think this gets much worse a 40 gallon or less. Thoughts?

[pollylewis]

That's a cool pump (ok what does it smell like Ha), think I have guns in my arms from carrying all those buckets. HI Stella she's adorable!

[bethanybouley]

Thats EXACTLY how i do water changes, and i can see my ab muscles as a result, but DAMN i hate it! Its not worth the muscles, time for a change.

[JellyAnimated]

I use a siphon for my tank because I gotta also gravel vacuum but I’m planning on changing substrate to sand

[--emt]

This method is great if you keep on 60-70% weekly water changes, but you still need to vacuum at times I don't recommend doing this method once every 2 weeks. For 20% water changes, it's simply not going to cut it.

[Cchilders]

Do you know what kind cleaner crew I could put with my African cichlids

[heyloheylo]

Not gonna lie I switched to a 20 dollar pump off Amazon best thing ever water changes in a breeze good on u for sharing the tip and funny vid

[HUNTERHUNTER]

Hahahah 😂 I've been using a submersible pump ...

[NotSure]

I use a python, I was stuck in the dark ages using a bucket until my collection grew to 10 tanks ranging from 55-180
My friends with auto water changes still tell me I’m in the dark ages lol