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Re: Water changing

Hello group,
	I thought it might be worthwhile to throw in my water 
changing methods also.
   --  Same as above.  --
	My fishroom is in a basement also. I use a 55 gallon plastic 
drum with the top cut off as a holding tank. I have a garden hose 
from the closest faucet I fill it with. I put a submersible heater in 
it for winter and there is an open weighted air line in it for some 
mixing. I purchased an outdoor submersible fountain pump at the 
TrueValue Hardware store a dozen years ago along with enough clear 
plastic tubing to reach from the bottom of the drum to every tank in 
my fish room. I use the same garden hose to empty each tank. One end 
is in the drain in the center of my basement. I start the syphon and 
the rest is down the drain.
Sometimes when I have fry in a tank that I might suck out, I will 
drain through a brine shrimp net into a 5 gallon bucket with a 
smaller plastic hose.
	I try to keep it simple. Most everybody here in the area uses 
something close to this.
	I use thiosulfate to dechlorinate our tap water and reduce 
the pH at the same time. The pH as it goes into my tanks is about 8. 
I change as much of all the water in all my tanks on a weekly basis 
as I can. I seldom clean a tank unless something really bad happens. 
Then it's 1/2 cup bleach and fill to top, in a day everything is dead 
and white.

	Oh, the peat test . . . wait till Monday, some interesting 
results so far . . .

Regards,
Charles Harrison
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