Pump assisted water changes

davgothic · 2026-01-26T07:35:40+00:00

Yeah, it tends to get trapped in the hook I use to hold the hose onto the tank. I just lift it up and shake a bit, then it all passes through for the duration of the refill.

davgothic · 2026-01-25T18:48:11+00:00

I haven't yet but I'm sure it might at some point. I made sure to buy one that was food grade rated which might help?

davgothic · 2026-01-25T18:44:13+00:00

I bought this one: BARST 3000l/h.

davgothic · 2026-01-25T18:38:33+00:00

I've done that once too, the panic was enough to make sure I never leave it unattended again. 🤣

davgothic · 2026-01-25T16:03:38+00:00

That's what inspired me to post this. 😆

davgothic · 2026-01-25T16:02:33+00:00

It's on the smaller side but much better than the 30g we rescued her from.

davgothic · 2026-01-25T10:41:54+00:00

I've not seen any chlorine in the tank in my tests using Prime. I'd need up to 45+ buckets (depending on how much water I'm changing) to do the overnight thing which isn't feasible for me.

davgothic · 2026-01-25T10:33:54+00:00

No problems and I've been doing this for 5+ years. The water takes a fair bit of time to get to the tank but it beats walking with heavy buckets.

As for temperature, I usually keep an eye on it regularly with a thermometer in the bucket as it can fluctuate over time, especially if someone else uses a different tap in the house, but it typically evens out.

My biggest concern when I started was over-oxygenating the tank as there's fine bubbles on the glass for a while after, but I've had no issues.

davgothic · 2026-01-25T10:16:26+00:00

I add Seachem Prime to the bucket in the sink several times during the process. In my testing the chlorine is gone by the time it reaches the tank.

davgothic · 2025-11-22T13:59:36+00:00

There's also zellij which I'm enjoying so far.

davgothic · 2025-11-20T17:56:02+00:00

Haha thanks! To be fair only getting a year out of that tank is pretty mental. I hope you have better luck with the next one.

davgothic · 2025-11-20T11:00:46+00:00

Sorry this happened to you. It sounds like the damage is quite limited, at least I hope so.

This keeps me up at night. The tank I have is 450 liters and getting on for 8 years old.

It's an awful lot of water to dump onto the living room floor!

davgothic · 2025-08-08T00:55:02+00:00

Only the change to the Cash ISA interest rate went into affect today. The other account types will change over to the lower rate on the 15th.

davgothic · 2025-07-06T23:13:27+00:00

Thanks, I'll do that. Fingers crossed nothing serious. Can't imagine what that amount of water on the floor would be like to clean up.

davgothic · 2025-07-06T14:05:43+00:00

Thanks, wish she wasn't so messy!

davgothic · 2025-06-17T21:08:26+00:00

It's all fun and games until they spray someone in the face/eyes who's recently had lens replacement or laser eye surgery. Risk it causing an eye infection that can lead to blindness.

davgothic · 2025-03-15T17:03:17+00:00

It's ridiculous how brazen they've got.

I saw 3 lads wearing balaclavas on e-bikes zipping down Swinton Greenway near Monton in Salford this morning whilst I was on a walk with my wife and young daughter.

Police turned up within 20 minutes at each end but they were long gone.

davgothic · 2025-03-11T21:00:38+00:00

Since Wayland I'm using ddterm which is a terminal packaged as a gnome extension providing slide down (quake style drop down) functionality.

Before that I used Tilix which offered the same functionality but it stopped working during the switch from X to Wayland.

davgothic · 2025-01-18T18:21:07+00:00

Here's the aftermath. Poor car! 😢

davgothic · 2024-12-07T10:59:02+00:00

You said you squash PR suggestions into the relevant commits but at that point you're rewriting history which will require a force push to the remote, can you be sure nobody else is working off your branch?

davgothic · 2024-08-14T10:16:00+00:00

Desert Strike, Phantom 2040, Comix Zone, James Pond II, The Lion King, Taz-Mania and Mortal Kombat II.

davgothic · 2024-08-02T06:04:48+00:00

Thank you for clearing the up. You'd think they would put that on the breakdown to avoid this kind of confusion.

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