Well Water
Lana, I think I was confused too, I was thinking that the “old” was used tank water. Did you mean fresh water from the old house?
Also, I’m still confused overall. I get that you want to move them in cups.that’s one day or less of traveling, right?
But why can’t you take 10G of water from the old house, put them in their 10G tank immediately with the “old house” water, and then do the small daily water changes in the 10G to acclimate?
Also, how do you know you CAN acclimate them to the new tap water? What if it isn’t suitable for bettas at all?
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From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lana Gibbons Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 2:09 PM To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [AquaticLife] Re: Well Water
> > As for the part with the water changing, you did not mention doing > totally new (100%) water changes every evening, or at least I did not > see that anywhere.
Then you should read the posts you’re replying to better. Last one had “Bettas, when in their cups, require 100% water changes” among several other mentions of it.
You were concerned about aclimating you fish to > your new well water and stated your intentions of changing one ounce > of water per day (for 8 days — as they are 8 ounce cups). Your > words — “Would adding an ounce of well water (and removing an ounce > of tap water I bring) be gradual enough? That way it would take 8 > total water changes for them to reach 100%.” Ray
You didn’t reply to that post, you replied to the one where I explained how that would work: “Day 1: 100% water change to 1 ounce well, 7 ounce old Day 2: 100% water change to 2 ounce well, 6 ounce old Day 3: 100% water change to 3 ounce well, 5 ounce old Day 4: 100% water change to 4 ounce well, 4 ounce old Day 5: 100% water change to 5 ounce well, 3 ounce old Day 6: 100% water change to 6 ounce well, 2 ounce old Day 7: 100% water change to 7 ounce well, 1 ounce old Day 8: 100% water change to 8 ounce well”
I guess you read 100% as 10%?
-Lana
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