can i use a garden hose to fill my aquarium?

Answer 1

Yes, you can. Where exactly would the first person suggest getting water?

The main concern with water in an aquarium is getting the chlorine out. There are products you can buy at any pet store that will dechlorinate the water within 2-3 minutes. If you want to go the cheaper route, you can wait 12 hours. If you want to be extra safe, wait 24. No biggie either way. As someone else said, it's important to maintain the temperature before putting animals in there. Follow the instructions on the little fishies baggie. My husband didn't once, and all 12 of my ghost shrimp died within 45 minutes. Men and their not reading directions. Pfthhh!

Answer 2

Maybe. If your hose is rated as "potable" or "safe for drinking water" you are good to go. If it isn't, or if you're not sure, I suggest two options.

1. A new, clean 2 -3 gallon plastic pail. Slow but sure method.

2. A new "drinking wate safe" hose if you have a really big tank.

The water you draw from a outside hose faucet is no different than the water from your kitchen or bathroom tap. In most cases
chlorine will be present. Fluorides too depending on where you live. Both are toxic to fish.

Given a few days to a week both compounds will convert to dissolved gas which escapes into the air making the water safe for you fish. You can make this conversion more effective by keeping your filters and air pumps running.

You may still want to treat the water with a conditioner such as Aquaclear. I do highly recommend you talk to some aquarium dealers and fish hobbyists to see if the water needs any further treatment. For example, high dissolved salt content (hard water)
will need to be corrected unless you only choose fish which do best in this type of water.

Good luck

Jimmy

Answer 3

If your tank is smaller then 50 gallons then most people use a 5 gallon bucket. That is pretty standard procedure. 50 gallons and up most people buy a python.

The garden hose would make me nervous- smell it- it smells like metal- the water tastes different.

A python attaches to your sink and allows you to siphon water and add water. It makes doing water changes on large aquariums take about 10 minutes plus no sweating.

The initial fill is the most work. After that you should only do 1/3 water changes. So it is 2 buckets for a 30 gallon aquarium-pretty easy.

I filled my 75 with a five gallon bucket when I first got it. It took a really long time. I didn't have to worry about weird minerals or metals in my water though.

Answer 4

Yes. It is perfectly all right. But run it outside for a minute to get any stagnant water out of it. That stagnant water could be harmful. And then remember that this water likely has chlorine, so be sure and use your antichlorine chemical. I used a garden hose on 122 aquariums for 10 years and it never harmed a single fish.

Answer 5

I've been keeping aquariums for years, and I have used a hose several times. You certainly can use one to fill your tank the *first* time. Just make sure that you use a dechlorinator like Aqua Safe or similar to remove chlorine AND chloramines. Chloramines don't evaporate for weeks, so letting the water sit out overnight won't help.

Don't use it to do water changes in an established tank, because of the temperature shock. Most fish are very sensitive to temperature changes.

Here's a couple of pages that might help:
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_chlorine.htm
http://www.fishdoc.co.uk/water/temperature.htm

Answer 6

No U can't, absolutely not. 'Coz there's much more bacteria & chemicles in the water which comes from Ur garden hose. But if U fill a container with the garden hose water, & put the water under sunshine for few days, it'd be better.

Answer 7

you can use a garden hose to fill up your aquarium but you have to let the water sit in the aquarium for 24 hours after that before you put the fish in the water or else the chlorine and other chemicals wll kill your fish.

Answer 8

if it's fresh water sure. i've done it before. however, use a water conditioner like NovaAqua to help remove chlorine. and never fill the aquarium and immediately put in fish. the water needs to be able to build up some good bacteria that will help to break down harmfull waste material in the water. if this is salt water we're talking about, NEVER use tap water. the fish are much more sensitive and need pure water, ie. Reverse Osmosis water. in either case the bacteria situation still applies.

Answer 9

Yes you can, but remember garden hoses contain lead so will the water in very small trace amounts. But more important remember before putting fish in the tank that the temperature and PH levels are correct for the fish you get.

Answer 10

Been a lengthy time period on the grounds that I messed with a fish tank so many of the others want to chime in right here. Water is water. all of it comes into the living house from the same pipe on the line. Are you keeping that the interior your hose is grimy because you do not sparkling it? if so, allow me ask the awesome time you wiped clean the water pipes at your residence! If I remember wisely, after filling the fish tank you want to allow the water sit for a pair of days so as that the chlorine will evaporate out of it. that is way extra perfect for the fish. also this facilitates the water contained in the tank to come back as a lot as a temperature it extremely is extra perfect for the fish. you would possibly want to need to placed a heater in there although... I understand now that there is a product on the marketplace to 'neutralize' the tank in case you want to placed fish in it speedier yet I easily have continually felt that 'sluggish and straightforward' is the thanks to bypass in this stuff. have relaxing at the same time with your new pets!