Water change temperature

[Ping]

I place the water change water in the house. I carry six, 5 gallon buckets from the storage tank in the garage into the house, and dump in the water change garbage can. I run the mixing pump for an hour, then add the salt. 24 or so hours later, the water temp is around 76 degrees. A little more work but also a little exercise. "Just my way of doing this".

[britfish]

OK, I'll give that a try. As long as I can limit the temp swing to 1 deg I'd be happy. I figured that a 15% water change would increase the temp by 15% of the difference between the two water temps. So to limit the swing to 1 deg I would need to get temp of my new water down to around 85 deg which should be possible, especially if I do it early morning. I'll freeze some jugs of water and drop them in the trash can tonite and see what the temp is in the morning.

[p00num3lli]

get like 4-5 5 gallon buckets, plit the water up betwee n them, then put a couple of ice bags in there, the water volume is less and should col it way down.

[britfish]

I place the water change water in the house. I carry six, 5 gallon buckets from the storage tank in the garage into the house, and dump in the water change garbage can. I run the mixing pump for an hour, then add the salt. 24 or so hours later, the water temp is around 76 degrees. A little more work but also a little exercise. "Just my way of doing this".

As a last resort I might have to do a similar thing. I'm trying not to move the water twice and not to have a trash can full of water in the house. Also, as I have two tanks and alternate the water changes, I'll be doing it virtually every weekend! That's too much exercise!

[ErikH]

Since you have two tanks, maybe you could buy a small chiller to hook up?

[JeffCo]

you could also do smaller water changes, do multiple smaller changes so it's not such a big dump of high temp water.