Wather Change, How to?

[amirnezhad]

Hi every one,

I have a problem about Wahter Change, I use a Hose to take out water from a tank and then I add new water with that Hose but every time I do this, all of my fishe start to act like they are very nervous, they are starting to swim very fast and some times they contact with tank very hard
Whould you please tell me how can I do this to better?

Thanks

[Ardan]

Hi ,
When you add the new water, is all the chlorine out? is all the chloramines out?
Is the temperature the same?

[Carol_Roberts]

. . . .is the pH the same?

[dm]

You might want to go a little lighter on the water changes until you get things figured out. It sounds like they are freaking out pretty bad.

[Carol_Roberts]

Good idea dm - maybe 20% wc at a time.

[amirnezhad]

Thanks every body,
Every time I did water change, I check hardness, PH & heat of new water and then put new water in tank,

but until now, I did 30% water change every 2 days but now, I will change this to 20% per day as you say.

Any other idea?

Hi all

Do you just use the hose?
Is yes you could install a drain Pipe from pvc. At the end install a hose adapter were you can connect the hose to it.
Me wanting to be on the safe side I use 2 hose. One for drain and one (drinking water grad as from camping or RV)
for filling. Using one drainpipe you also wont lose the siphon.
Of course you still have to siphon the bottom per hand.
If it is not water related it might help a bit.
If you already have a setup like this just discard the post :-)

hth Ronald