Water change reservoir???

I have got a 1000 L tank that I want to make as water change reservoir --- do I need to put in pump,air and filter, and do I need to populate with fish as well to cycle it? :wondering:

 

Why do you want a 1000L?

Are you trying to mature the water before adding it to your tanks? How many tanks do you need to do a WC for?

For RO I understand why ppl want to do a reservoir - for FW I am not so sure unless you are trying to heat and treat before the WC.

Either way at minimum aeration should be added for such a bulk.

Later Ferdie

 

I have it standing here and want to do something with it plus my tropical tank is 860L so want to use it as reservoir .

 

Use it as a breeding tank?

 

Yea!!! that too what do you want me to breed in there?
Ugh!!! then I need to do water change in there aswell

 

It probably is going overboard a bit. I have just upgraded my diminutive 12 L tank to a 25 L tank. Am doing WC on a daily basis (about 10 %) and using only a gravel filter, with a standby charcoal filter when forced to do a medication program.
I don't know a lot about it yet, still in the learning stage, but find that using a charcoal pre-filter and a chemical neutraliser has so far done no visible harm to my system. Plus I am doing a bit of ammonia neutralisation and adding some nitrogen neutraliser as well.
Maybe the experts can point me in another direction, but it seems to me that a lengthy pretreatment is unnecessary when using either carbon filtered or (preferably) RO treated water.
I would, in Willems position, use the tank for extra fish. Maybe sort the compatible ones in two seperate tanks.

 

I recently got a 200L drum to age water in. I would just have a pump in it to pump water to my tank and an airstone to aerate the water.
Probably just getting lazy, having to carry buckets puts me off water changes...

 

@ Daan Yes I am going to set it up but as a breeding tank it is actually a 1000L plastic drum with the top cut of
so I set it up with 600L of water and one of those small pumps with the air nozzle where you connect the
air pump onto. To breed I will defenately need you peoples help .

@ Firefly Yes I am also lazy to carry 180 litres of water is a bit difficult, that is why I want to setup a drum to do
water changes but it seems I am doing something else with it now so I will ma use the 200L drum for that.

 

Tubing onto the kitchen water filter .. that works for me - no buckets in my fishroom. Even drilled a hole through the wall and use a 20mm pipe for siphon straight into the garden.

When it warms up - add guppies to the 600l drum ;-) - oh and moss loads of moss on driftwood.

 

Also a good idea. I was thinking of having a super bright light and have some plants in the bottom.

 

probably one of the easier methods out there.. fill up drum with hose pipe, add dechlorinator and pump into tank.

+1

 

Yes! and some ferns and other pretties around it plus a small pump and a waterfall. Some of these strip LED's the motorcycle riders use, in Bright White for lighting would provide an ideal waterproof lighting. Ad a few dark blue LED's on a separate circuit for moonlight.

What a delightful idea for an indoor fishpond.