Originally Posted by TheDon

also.. how do you do water changes... I know putting the chlorinated city water in an established or cycling tank is bad... then.. how do I do it? a quart at a time?

Originally Posted by TheDon

how do you do water changes... I know putting the chlorinated city water in an established or cycling tank is bad... then.. how do I do it? a quart at a time?

Originally Posted by jsalemi

I bought a gallon of distilled water at the store, used it as part of the first water change, and now I use it for every water change -- put 1ml of the declorinator in it (I use NovAqua +), then the water at the right temp, then use it to fill the tank. Of course, I only have a 10g, so 2 or 3 of them are enough for the weekly water change.

If you have a bigger tank, you can add the water directly from the tap. Just add the proper amount of declorinator right away, and your fish shouldn't get stressed. Most current declorinators work very fast. Also, with a big tank something like a Python is very handy -- you connect it to the nearest tap, and with the valve one way it sucks water out (and cleans the bottom) right into the sink. Turn the valve the other way, and it fills the tank up. You can add the declorinator right to the stream of water coming into the tank.