Tired of making a mess doing water changes?

[rbraunberger]

Hey All,

I am new to the hobby this year, but was tired of spilling water while doing a water change from my salt water mixing tank. Here was my solution! Less than $5 at Lowe's!

Took 1/2" PVC and glued a cap to one end, and drilled holes in the PVC pipe. Then I added a valve to control the speed of filling depending on the situation. Works Great!!

 

[clownfish chris]

A simple solution to a common problem. I like it!

 

[rbraunberger]

Thank you! Being able to co trim the flow depending on my needs works so nice

 

[mrtian97]

I am still using 5 gallon white container for SW that I buy from LFS. Any suggestion for pump that will fit the opening of this container and able to push water to my tank (about 4.5 ft total height), so I don't have to lift this 40 lbs of water

Thanks

 

[clownfish chris]

4.5 feet is to much for a pump that small. You would need to an inline pump that you could set on the floor next to it and run the feed line into the opening. The issue here is priming the pump. Do you have a sump?

 

[mrtian97]

I have sump, maybe I can push the new SW into the sum, which pump you suggest that will fit into the container.
I use tunze ato but this pump will be too slow for wc

 

[pondman]

I just put my saltwater bucket on a chair and siphon to sump that way I don't stir up the tank pouring it in.

 

[mrtian97]

good idea, I will try this

 

[rbraunberger]

Ya when I upgraded to the Vectra M1, I put to work my old return pump that was sitting around gathering dust

 

[BoDiddley]

I just put my saltwater bucket on a chair and siphon to sump that way I don't stir up the tank pouring it in.

I do the same and then wait a bit for the sump to turn on then turn down my jebo return pump to the lowest setting and let'er rip