Whats your Water changing set up?

[gotpancit]

I'm trying to come up with a way to make my water changes as easy as possible. When I used to have my 65g this is what I did:
1) Turned off the main pump power but left powerhead going.
2) Siphoned out the old water into a big rubbermaid tub which always turned out to be heavy, then dumped it outside.
3) Then I'd take a juice pitcher and start filling it with water from a Brita filter and slowly mixed salt in until it got to the right specific gravity then dumped it into a bigger 5 gallon bucket. Repeat until the bucket was full then dumped it into the tank.
4) repeat 3 until the tank was back up to where it was supposed to be.
5) turned on main pump and added water as needed.
Now that process was not bad because it was only 6-15 gallons to change. I don't want to do it that way with my new 140g because it would take forever to do a water change. How would I go about doing it an easier way?

 

[nigerbang]

Heres what I do.. I have a 15 gallon rubbermaid tub.. Fill it with RODi water.. Mix for 2 days..When its ready I take another 15 gallon tote and pump the water out of the sump with a Maxijet 1200 and some tubing, pour it out and then use the MJ to pump the clean water out of the tote and into the sump... Takes about 15 minutes..

 

[reifermadness]

Friday: Take two 5 gallon jugs - 1 for salt and 1 DI. Go to LFS on the way home from work and get both filled ($3.00) Bring them home and open salt bucket. Add 2.5 cups of salt to 5g salt bucket. Drop in power head to start mixing.
Saturday: Enjoy my day and look at my tank
Sunday: Take Home Depot 5g bucket with 6' tube. Start siphon and pull out 5g while 'vacuuming' rock and back of tank. Fill Home Depot bucket and pour out in yard. Then take salt 5g, fill pitcher and refill tank.
Monday - Thursday... drool over tank.

 

[drtito]

Originally Posted by NigerBang
http:///forum/post/2942100
Heres what I do.. I have a 15 gallon rubbermaid tub.. Fill it with RODi water.. Mix for 2 days..When its ready I take another 15 gallon tote and pump the water out of the sump with a Maxijet 1200 and some tubing, pour it out and then use the MJ to pump the clean water out of the tote and into the sump... Takes about 15 minutes..

+1 that is by far as easy as it gets.

 

[daninct]

I have three salt water tanks (90, 72, 30).
I have a 32 gal plastic barrell that I fill at least two days before or more. I add the salt and a power head (maxijet 900) plus a heater. I let it sit a day covered then test the water for phosphate, sg, etc.
I clean the tanks glass etc and then siphon out what I want using a clear tube connected to a maxi jet 1200. The end of the tube goes right into my basement sump in the floor (which is why the tanks are near that part of the basement).
I then take the water barrell with salt mix (on a furniture dolly) and wheel it over to the tanks. Take the maxi jet with the tube and fill the tanks.
If the sump starts to smell from the backwash I will dump in a bleach/water mix. CAREFUL near the tanks.
repeat every 2 weeks or as needed.

 

[lighteningthes]

Put tube over powerhead, drain into bucket, Do this 2-3 times, unless I want to vaccuum the crushed coral. After removing the water, walk to basement where I have 50 gallons of pre-mixed and heated water. Hook tube up to power head in 50 gallon can, fill buckets with water. Take 1.5" hose, put in bucket, siphon into tank.

 

[cveverly]

My process is similar to NigerBang’s. I have a 28 gallon tote that I fill about 3/4 with RO/DI water. I keep it at 76 degrees and a pump running in it all the time. On Friday I mix in the correct amount of salt and let it continue to mix. Sunday I siphon out 15 gallons from the display into buckets then pump in 15 gallons from the tote into my sump. I drew a line on the sump so I know when I have added enough water. The line also helps with daily replacement of evaporated water. Dispose of dirty water and rinse buckets. Start the process of refilling my storage tote.

 

[olingerjccj]

I have 2 of the 50lbs canisters the salt came in. I use 1 to make my new water. I let that sit 24-48 hrs 1 to siphon the old water out. I turn the powerheads off and the filter pump off. when i add the water back in, i add in my sump tank till the level is right.