TUCCI

Thanks for the info .....

Hello everyone I'm TUCCI and excited to join. I've already been posting some thread discussions and getting real good feedback. I got away from aquariums for close to a decade since moving here from Arizona. I've had fresh and Salt tanks with fresh being my favorite (specifically the Monster fish variety). I'm slowly putting together 75 display and needed to reorient myself to whats been going on in my absence. My favorite fish are clownloaches and I want a full complement of them with a handful of Frontosas. Where I'm going to get the Fronts from, I haven't figured out yet but hey thats what I've got this Forum for!! Finding great looking Clowns is also a quandary but I'm taking it slow (whats the hurry right?). Getting the tank setup and cycling it without stock is step 2. See everyone out there.....Cheers

Just as I thought then, its being used and not spoken of too often. Glad to hear it. Thanks for everyone's input....👍

I'm betting most aquarium use products have their origins in the commercial sector. If one takes the time to investigate the main ingredients, you can trace it back and save a ton of cheddar.

Sorry Torrey, I dosed off...Im on a phone.

I would toss a couple grains of it while filling my Brute container. Amazon sells it. Its on my purchase list for my next replenishment order. I was curious of its widespread usage among aquarist. It is ridiculously inexpensive and very effective.

Ah very nice, a thing of beauty......thanks for posting the pics. Maybe in the future, I can trouble you with giving me a tutorial of how to post pics.....thanks again

Sodium Thiosulfate Pentahydrate. Its a crystalline dechlorinator I used in the past successfully and wondered how well kept it is as I rarely hear it discussed in the aquarium community. If you look it up and read about it, it's found in a crystalline form (powder also) and very effective with dechlorinating aquariums and other bodies of water. Some years ago someone (can't recall who) turned me onto an inexpensive and easy to dispense chemical (Sodium Thiosulfate Pentahydrate).....I'd like to open it up for dialog with my aquarist brethren.........

Can you post a pic ? (im gonna need time to figure out how to do that myself).

👍 thanks for sharing

Awesome idea, you wouldn't happen to have a part # for that ball valve?

I'll give it a try, thanks for the endorsement 👍

Hummm good input Brian thanks for that. Python, perhaps I've been overkilling my procedure.....I'll have to put some research into this. 👍

It really is. What I've been doing is I have a 44 gallon Brute container measured off in 5 gal increements. I fill from the tap up to the gallonage I want adjusting the temp according to what I need. If its too hot (summers in Arizona were like that) I let it sit out till it cools. I dechlorinate and drop my Little Giant hooked to a hose thats screwed into a hose to pvc connector shaped like a U hooked around the edge of the aquarium and turn on the pump. Once the bucket is close to being empty I turn off the pump and remove my apparatus and I'm done. The pump will empty the full 44gals in less than 5mins but their going for $115. It'll last for years in fact the one I've got has been with me for over 10yrs but I've only used it for transferring aquarium water. I was just curious if there's another option but apparently not but thanks for sharing your views with me 🙂. The Phython put chlorinated water right into the tank right? How do you dechlorinate the water if its coming straight out of the tap? Please explain.

What do you think, does it do the job for you?