Hmmm I never knew so many ways to pour water in a box??? Let me write how I do a water change. I drip RO/DI water in a 5 gallon bucket (Homer bucket from Home Depot or a IO bucket from the LFS both now found on my back porch) after overflowing the bucket for the umpteenth time and ensuring my wife it will never happen again, "I have tried blaming Bush for it but nobody is buying that anymore" I place a PH (Tunze Nano Stream) and a heater (black one) in the bucket and with my one cup measuring cup put 2 and 1/2 cups of IO into the bucket before the dog starts drinking it (I never beat the dog he always gets a good slurp in fact I think Dog slobber improves color and polyp extension) then after 24 hours, or maybe 36, or 48, or ?????? You get the picture. I siphon the 5 gallons out of the tank into another bucket (Homer bucket from Home Depot or a IO bucket from the LFS) and pour it down the toilet (Bathroom my house). Then I put the bucket of new water on a kitchen chair (kitchen my house) and siphon the water into the sump while I cycle the return pump on and off as the sump fills (power button, power strip, side of my tank) and when its full again I realize I did not check the salinaty. I then look to see if anythings dying, if not, I have glass of wine and sing songs of praise of my ability to do stupid things and have no consequence.:happywalk
Oh yeah pouring the water in is fine using a small bucket or something thats clean.
Dave:explode: