Did You Know You Could Do This?
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- čas přidán 29. 11. 2022
- Today's video, I show you how you can do a water change with a Fluval FX6
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I had no idea, and I've had my 120 gal tank for seven years! Wish I had this information yesterday, but at least I won't be dreading the next time. Thank you so much! Blessings...
Thanks for sharing mate. Will definetely try this method.
Great video, thanks for showing all this!
Keep and use your tank water especially if you clean the filters and/or vacuuming the bottom for your plants or garden. It's good fertilizer for the plants and your plants will love it.
We have a small online plant shop, all our tank water we use and our plants love it.
Thanks for posting this advice.
Very good! I have one on my 125 gallon saltwater tank. I'll have to try this.
Thank you for sharing this. It’s the first time hearing this technique.
You're most welcome and thank you so much for watching.
Stay Blessed.
Michael The Fish Keeper
very cool feature and video man!
Love this video!
Thanks For Watching 😎
I recently got my first canister fx4 for my 75-gallon. I added water through the filter yesterday and I was more excited about it than I was about my birthday. lol
Really helpful, thanks a lot
Glad it was helpful!
Cool method, I’ll definitely keep this in mind if I need to use it 👍
Awesome!! Thank You for watching. Appreciate your comment and feedback. Merry Christmas from my family to yours.
Had an fx6 running for just over a year and this is the first water change i used the purge plug haha awesome 👌
How did it work for you?
Great video! So we leave a hose connected to that drain valve. We have a connector on the end that allows us to connect to a pipe that carries the dirty water to a drian, and we just disconnect that once we have removed the water and place it into our brute trash can that has our new water ready to go in the tank. Pretty well same set up. It makes water changes a snap. Also have a hose permanently set next to brute trash can to fill new water easy.
Now you got another follower 👍
Great info 😎
Thank You so much for watching. Merry Christmas from my family to yours.
Michael The Fish Keeper
Pretty cool that you figured this out. 👍
Thank You for watching & Appreciate you. Merry Christmas.
@@cichlaguru same to you and your family brother.
Found you’re channel great info I subscribed
Awesome, Thank You so much for the support.
I find this a lot of work to repurpose a pumphead ! I bought a pumphead for 30 euros and connected it with quick coupling to a flexible (non expanding! ) hose and an indoor adapter from Gardena to the tap at the other end for water changes. The hose is called Liano, but there are cheaper alternatives, you can use an expandable hose, but then use only the not expanded length as the pumphead has not enough strength to expand the hose. The Gardena flexible garden hose is dream to work with and 20 meters fits in a bucket. To remove water: Connect the pumphead to the hose with the quick coupling and put the pump in the water. Pump the water out. Water in: connect the indoor adapter to your tap and fill the aquarium. Store the 20 meters or so in a bucket.
This video was more time then it looked do to me showing it more in depth. It actually isn’t no time at all to do this method. But we all have our own ways of doing things. Thank You for watching and appreciate your feedback.
New sub! Seen it before but I like your style!
Thank You so much. Hope you have a great weekend.
I always hook a hose to the purge valve to drain into my wife’s garden. Didn’t know it could be used in reverse though. I just add water conditioner directly into the tank and fill back with a hose from my tap. Been doing that way for years with no problems.
Nice video - clear and informative.
Thank You so much for watching. Appreciate your feed back. Hope you are having a great weekend.
@@cichlaguru I am having a lovely weekend, albeit a cold one here in Chicago! Appreciate your support of my channel as well :)
@@LushSaltyAquariums Ah the windy city. Cold here in California and rainy as well.
@@cichlaguru I just moved back to Chicago from Marin ;)
Amazing
Thank You! & Thank You for watching.
I have a lot of big tanks so I just drop in a submerged pump into each tank, run the connected pipe to wherever, then simply run the outside hose into each tank to fill it back up. No convoluted connections, very simple & very effective...and fast
I do the same
I love it dad amazing 🤩
Thank You so much buddy
That's pretty cool
Thank You for watching. I am also learning that there are different methods that other fish keepers do about hooking the hose up to the fx6.
Been doing it for awhile, works pretty slick. Run the hose right out the door, like you were saying.
Right on man, Thank You for watching & Appreciate your feedback. This defiantly helps out a lot when doing water changes.
Nice Job
Thanks!
This is my first time hearing that I can run water back through to refill my tank. Looks so much easier if I don’t have to sift thru sand.
Thank You and appreciate your comment. If using a FX series canister filter for refill. You can adjust the speed on the FX filter out put so it doesn't come out as fast and stir up the sand.
That’s pretty deadly my man !
You can do this with any canister filter. Just add TS to both input and output with valves. And for anyone that doesn't understand it will suck from the container just save your comment because if you do it right it will.
That helps me if I can drain the water out of that fx6 when I clean it
I use it on the fx 4
That's a cool feature, do their smaller filters do this too?
FX series is the only one with a purge valve. But if you search around there maybe DIY projects on doing this method on other canister filters.
I use the quick connectors for water hoses. Connect it to my python.
Nice. I need to look into this method. Seen other comments like yours. Appreciate your comment and thank you for watching.
That valve was built to do that function but its not very efficient. Most big tank owners will need to remove and replace much larger amounts of water making the use of that valve obsolete
wouldn't use it myself as i have the python system. But it is a good solution for shifting large volumes of water for those that haven't got python .
Thank You and appreciate your feedback. Hope you are having a great weekend.
I drain it this way every week. I run a hose from my guest bathroom to the tank in order to temperature match the water.
Also, the utility valve has been recognized as a week point in the filter. They tend to leak when used often as particles get stuck in them from food or substrate. To fix this, we install the factory hose to the utility valve and leave that valve open 24/7. We install a 3/4” ball valve on the other end of the hose and clamp it in place. The hose wraps around the filter and clicks into place in the clips that are installed on top of the lid. To use the utility valve we simply attach a hose to the other side of the ball valve and open the ball valve itself, never touching the utility valve. Hope I explained this correctly.
Awesome feedback and tips. I am going to look into this. Like your idea. Merry Christmas
@@cichlaguru to you as well.
I'm interested in this solution, it would be helpful with a simple drawing of how you have done it.
First time I've seen this idea I have a fx5 and think ot should work the same
Awesome!! Yes it work for a fx5 as well. Thank You for watching and appreciate your comment. Have a great weekend.
Nice video . Instead of using drain plug I bought pond tubing and another aquastop valve for me it’s easier to unhook top aquastop plus tubing is bigger and I don’t have to worry about drain plug leaking.
Awesome feedback. Appreciate you. I like reading an seeing what ideas and how others come up with on how to things differently. Thank You for watching and early Merry Christmas from my family to yours.
Michael The Fish Keeper
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Thank You
Wow never new this
Same here. Recently discovered this method. Thank You for watching and appreciate your comment. Have a great weekend & Merry Christmas
Thank You! Do you have a link to where you bought the 3/4" PVC flex tubing? I need a hose that is 2 times as long as the one it came with and I've been having trouble finding a good one.
I do not have a link, But i did find it on Amazon.
@@cichlaguru Thanks. Is it in your order history? Is there any more details you have on it? I've had 6 people helping me look for two years and we can't seem to get a replacement tube that fits.
I use too I bought sump pump now it's much faster
Although I have multiple FX6 filters I just prefer throw a pump inside my tanks and pump the water out it's just faster for me with large tanks and 50 to 75 percent water changes. I have large fish that create a lot of waste.
But I have a question I see you have a spray bar on your FX6 input did you buy that or make it I kind of like that it would work good on my 75 gallon tank.
Appreciate your feedback and Thank You for watching. The spray is actually a Fluval Spray bar made for their FX series canister filters and their 07 and 06 canister filters. You can find them on kensfish.com just search Fluval spray bar.
@@cichlaguru awesome I will check it out. I'm thinking of setting up a Discus tank and I think that would be a good fit
How did u do ur spray bar setup? Is that 1 single spray bar or multiple?
Hey how's it going? Here is a link where i install the spray bar. It is 3 piece connected together. So you can choose how long you need it to be. Hope your having a great weekend.
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Bought one and tried with sand substrate, it got clogged with sand and didn’t work. Any suggestions?
I got another question if you check your water parameters and everything is on point do you still need to do a water change?
That is a really good question. Before i answer. Let me ask you a couple questions so i can give you a honest answer/opinion. How long as the tank been up and running for? What is the stock list in the tank? What do you feed your fish and how often? What is your current water change schedule?
Why didn’t you turn the filter around so we could see?
Would have been helpful if you could actually see what you were doing with the purge valve. Couldn't see the valve at all.
Hey Mike with salt water it's a whole different process and for me it isn't worth it to use the fx6 to do a water change! Good video for a fresh water tank! take care Barry
Totally understandable. I know SW is on a whole different level compared to freshwater. I will be doing a saltwater tank in 2023. nothing big and special but defiantly excited about venturing off. Thank You for watching and appreciate your feedback. Hope you are having a great tuesday.
Why not leave the hosepipe on the filter
does this valve bypass filter mediums? Because if it's not, I'd be concerned about rinsing beneficial bacteria inhabiting the medium directly with new sterile water. I currently use Eheim 250 Classic, with a T connector on intake, and drain water from Aquarium this way, but I use a separate pump to push new water directly through aquarium. Not sure if my concern is justified, but I feel that once water mixes in the aquarium before re-entering filter, beneficial bacteria in the filter doesn't get impacted as much.
Hey, How's your day going? So my answer is this. It may pass over the beneficial bacteria but now in a negative way. The way i do it is i pre treat the water first. Every water change i add in a beneficial bacteria as an aide to keep the good bacteria levels up. That is what i do and so far it has worked for me without any issues. Now everyone's water is different and certain things in others waters effect the outcome. But imo if your replacing beneficial bacteria while doing a water change, then no there is no negative impact. As for something major to happen beneficial bacteria would have to be soaked in pure tap water for a period of time for it to have a negative reaction. Hope this helps. If not we can continue to chat 😎
@@cichlaguru thanks for the answer
@@cichlaguru I usually use the water conditioner couple of minutes prior to water swap (in theory it should eliminate chlorine, and couple of other nasties). I do match water temp with approx 2 degree Celsius accuracy. I have "seachem Stability", but I don't always add it during water change (maybe I should start doing so). I was recently also questioning whether I should add my micro and macro fertilizers to the swap bucket, or perhaps later directly to the aquarium. I'd say I have a fairly good water circulation, so it should get a good mix either way. Also I'm worried about micro fertilizer potentially being neutralized by the water conditioner.
Hmmmm so you just took out some water put some water conditioner and stuff n put the same water back in ?
If so that is dope looks easy n fast 👍
Correct. This is my new favorite method of doing water changes. Thank You for watching and appreciate your feedback. Merry Christmas from my family to yours.
@Michael The Fish Keeper most appreciate it man.
Can I use your method with any size tank ? I have a 13 gallon tank and another question how many fish can I put in that tank?
@@chiroxxxrt What i would do, Is research nano fish. Find ones you like, And see how many you can keep in a 13g fish tank. Reason being is, When asked how many fish can you keep, It all comes down to max size etc. As for the water change. I would only change 2 1/2 gallons a week. That's what i would do and that's my personal opinion. But now what i do and suggest may not work for you and you may find something that works better for you etc. Hope you have a great day and Merry Christmas.
Why fill the new water into the trash can instead of just running the hose into the tank? Seems like extra work.
The reason why i do that so i can mix the fluval aqua plus into the water and it mixes a lot better and makes the water more better before going into the tank. removing chlorine etc.
@Michael The Fish Keeper I'm not sure how it makes it better. Either way it does the same thing just adds an extra step. Anyhow dechlorinator doesn't remove chlorine it detoxifies it. The chlorine evaporates over a couple of days.
@@SG-Cichlids When i am filling up the garbage can the way i do, It detoxifies the water better. I didn't word my response better and i apologize for that. This is why i like having conversations like this because all fish keepers have different methods of doing things and each of our waters are different. So we do different steps etc then others.
@Michael The Fish Keeper that's for sure. There's a way for everyone. I don't do things the way most people do and a lot of people think it's crazy but my fish are healthy and that's all that matters.
@@SG-Cichlids Truth. Appreciate you and Merry Christmas from my family to yours. Stay Blessed.
But a pond pump and call it a day
There is one step you missed how do you get your water temperature the same as the tank temperature using a garden hose?
Thank You for noticing that and yes i did forget to mention that. I hook up my hose to my faucet in the garage. I match the refill water to the tank using warm water and not pure cold water out the tap.
You use water from your kitchen sink!!
@@100bgeagle Yes i use tap water and treat it first. Been using the same faucet since 2008/2009
Seems like a lot of work . Just get a python or cheaper version of a python
Appreciate your feed back. As fish keepers we all have different methods of doing different things. Was just showing that you can do a water change with a FX6 without having to buy more products to drain a tank. Have a great Saturday.
Thanks for watching,
Michael The Fish Keeper
please sue the temperature is the same!
Why are there fish in the water bucket when you’re filling the tank ? That’s nice if you can’t use a python. Pythons are a lot easier though.
That is a reflection of the fish in the tank 🤙🏼
Wow boy sure likes fulval. Sure he's got it tattooed somewhere
Actually planning on that tattoo. Coming soon.
I like fluval too. Glad you have a sense of humor. 😀
@@charlesdavis2891 Gotta have fun in life you know? 🤙🏼😎
The dude is 10 years late. I ran a hose from where it was to the outside garden. Then, I hooked the other end to a quick connection on the sink to refill. Always work smarter, not harder.
A waste of time