Ken8
10-16-2003, 03:18 PM
Hi,
Does anybody use an electric kettle (you know, the ones for human use and used in the kitchen to boil hot water for coffee, roughly 1.7L to 2L capacity and containing heating elements of around 1700W to 2000W) to boil some hot water and add it to a larger proportion of cold tap water for adding new water after doing water change?
I just want to ask if it is a good idea to say add about 2L of boiling water (around 95deg C) to about 7L of cold tap water (around 16deg C) so that when mixed together in a 10L bucket, the final temperature of the 9L of water is around 30deg C.
Is this BASICALLY the same as bring the 9L of water up in temperature from say 16deg C to 30deg C very slowly using the proper aquarium glass heater? Or will the oxygen levels be extremely low when using the boiling water method?
The reason I want to do this is because I really don't have the space to have a container/aquarium to bring the water temperature up slowly using the aquarium heater and the other reason is because it's fast.
I know this is a stupid question but I'll have to ask anyway, you know how the inside of the kettle becomes brown after prolonged usage, will this create any problems when adding the water boiled using this kettle into the new water for water changing. The reason I said it's a stupid question is because we humans still use them to boil water for human consumption so it should be safe. But I still wanted to be sure if the browning of the inside heating element of the kettle will create any problems when adding to new water.
If boiling water using kettle isn't advisable then I guess I will just have to add cold tap water (pre-conditioned of course) straight into the tank but it will be in smaller proportion due to large differences in temperature between tap water and aquarium water.
Thanks for your help.
Ken
Does anybody use an electric kettle (you know, the ones for human use and used in the kitchen to boil hot water for coffee, roughly 1.7L to 2L capacity and containing heating elements of around 1700W to 2000W) to boil some hot water and add it to a larger proportion of cold tap water for adding new water after doing water change?
I just want to ask if it is a good idea to say add about 2L of boiling water (around 95deg C) to about 7L of cold tap water (around 16deg C) so that when mixed together in a 10L bucket, the final temperature of the 9L of water is around 30deg C.
Is this BASICALLY the same as bring the 9L of water up in temperature from say 16deg C to 30deg C very slowly using the proper aquarium glass heater? Or will the oxygen levels be extremely low when using the boiling water method?
The reason I want to do this is because I really don't have the space to have a container/aquarium to bring the water temperature up slowly using the aquarium heater and the other reason is because it's fast.
I know this is a stupid question but I'll have to ask anyway, you know how the inside of the kettle becomes brown after prolonged usage, will this create any problems when adding the water boiled using this kettle into the new water for water changing. The reason I said it's a stupid question is because we humans still use them to boil water for human consumption so it should be safe. But I still wanted to be sure if the browning of the inside heating element of the kettle will create any problems when adding to new water.
If boiling water using kettle isn't advisable then I guess I will just have to add cold tap water (pre-conditioned of course) straight into the tank but it will be in smaller proportion due to large differences in temperature between tap water and aquarium water.
Thanks for your help.
Ken