Re: [APD] RE:1st Planted Tank questions

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

This will take mcuh longer than just draing out 80% and
then replacing because, if you add and siphon at the same
time, much of the water you are siphoning out is the water
you just put into the aquarium. One can do a little
calculus to figure out how much time this adds; the
increase in time is pretty phenomenal, you can easily add
hours to a task that should only take less than half an
hour.


Scott H.

--- "Richard J. Sexton" <richard at aquaria_net> wrote:

> > do a large, 80% water change 
> 
> An easy way to do that is, drain out a bucketfull, stick
> a hose (python)
> in the tank. Start filling. Keep siphoning more water
> out. This way
> you can change 80% of the water without having to have 3"
> of
> water in your tank which never seems to do plants much
> good.
> 
> 
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