Need help eliminating buckets!

[dadecountyalan]

hello everybody! ive grown quite tired of having to carry buckets from one end of the house to the other. so i need your help in figuring out a way to speed up my water changes and eliminating buckets forever!!!!!!!

i have a 55g tank(with no sump) and im not the most handy person when it comes to tools so any ideas and advice you could give me is more than welcomed!!!!

[Hsunami]

Buy some Brute Trash Cans, as big as you can get. Go online or anywhere that sells those 100ft water safe hoses and connect and pour it in and age. DONE AND DONE. LOL Not really sure how much feet you need but it was just an example.

Homedepot carries the brute trash cans.

[dadecountyalan]

do you think i could run a hose from my sink to my fish tank with a pump and the water will flow pretty big distance

[Bud Smith]

hello everybody! ive grown quite tired of having to carry buckets from one end of the house to the other. so i need your help in figuring out a way to speed up my water changes and eliminating buckets forever!!!!!!
i have a 55g tank(with no sump) and im not the most handy person when it comes to tools so any ideas and advice you could give me is more than welcomed!!!!

I am not sure how far your tank is away from your water source -I age my water so I built a cart on wheels and put a 40 gal heavy duty trash barrel on the cart and it is totaly sef contained - wheel to the tank turn the pump on and fill the tank - wheel to my designated faucet fill the barrel with a hose - store cart and turn on equipment to prep water - start over in two days

[dadecountyalan]

any one know of a way i could atach a hose or siphon tube to my sink???

[richiethebing]

Take a peice of clear vinyl tubing the same size diameter as your vac long enough to go out a window. Provided the window is below your tank. My tank sits on my 112 inch bow window so for me its easy.

[jball1125]

do you think i could run a hose from my sink to my fish tank with a pump and the water will flow pretty big distance

If you dont age your water then yes you can do it that way.

[jball1125]

any one know of a way i could atach a hose or siphon tube to my sink???

If your sink is threaded you can buy an attachment at any local hardware store.

[richiethebing]

Then to fill it, I use a peice of 5/8 clear vinyl tubing 25 foot long with a dishwasher connector that has hose clamps on one end. I clamp it in bath room sink. Hope that helps. It takes me 20 min to my water changes.

[richiethebing]

Sorry, in my first post i was refurring to cleaning. And no my water here in NJ is perfect.

[dadecountyalan]

If your sink is threaded you can buy an attachment at any local hardware store.

whats that attachment called????

[jball1125]

Not sure what its called but if you go to ACE hardware and explain you need an adaption from your sink to a vinyl tube they will find it for you. I bought all of mine from there.

[jball1125]

Always try to get the widest tubing possible to your connection or it will take longer. I have one going from my shower to my aging barrel and then a pump pushing water from the barrel to the tanks.

[richiethebing]

I am not sure, it would not work on my kitchen sink it pulls out. Dishwasher fitting has 2 hose clamps. You would need a barb fitting to match size of tubing.

[Bud Smith]

any one know of a way i could atach a hose or siphon tube to my sink???

I have a wierd size faucet spout - so I have not found a threaded adapter that will fit - I bought a gartbage disposal rubber adapter with clamps on each end
Use my nut driver and attach it to my faucet spout and then to my shipon - run hose to tank ( for me it is 40 ft.) and remove 40% tank water - takes 20 minutes - ready for aged water - this takes me another 20 minutes