hmmm...
 

I'm trying to get this straight: I need an extra bucket of warm salty water to do water changes made up in advance. I need an extra bucket of warm tap water prepared in advance to top up because of evaporation. I need a quarantine tank to acclimate and check health of specimens. I need another source of income! Is it necessary to add water conditioners to everything? To make sure there is no chlorine?
thanks,
marc

Don't use tap water unless you have a RO/DI unit.

Since I have only a 10g tank I just have two Culligan RO water bottles that I get refilled. I always have salt water on hand with a powerhead and heater keeping it just right. I do daily top offs, but to get the water to the proper temp I just put a little bit in the microwave and mix in with the top off amount to get the right tank temp.

Greg

It is most definitely appropriate to condition any tap water being used. Use PRIME by SeaChem , seems to be the better one . But yeah, use RO/DI if you have a unit already.

If you're already complaining about the cost of 2 buckets and some water, you'd better stop right now! As we all know, it gets MUCH worse.... :lol:

I agree. It does get much worse.

I wasn't necessarily refering to the cost of water or of buckets but rather the overall cost of this operation. I was whining and whinging ;-)
I just can't wait for my fish to get big enough to eat :exclaim:
OK OK, just joking...
peace
thank-yous to all of you!
marc

Does this statement make sense?
The way I read it, it says that if a person has a RO/DI unit they should use tap water. :confused:

I think he means tapwater that has been filtered through a RO/DI unit. Otherwise, one could go with bottled water, or something.

Cheers,

What does not make sense about that? :question: I'm basically saying don't use water directly out of the faucet for top offs.

Why would you say that :question: I have never used anything but tapwater, and am very happy with the results. :eek: