My dorm is apartment style so I just fill a bucket up in the tub and carry it back to the fish tank. If you have traditional style dorms you would pretty much do the same thing.
I suggest you cycle your tank so you only have to do a small weekly water change.. that way you have less water to lug back and forth.
how long does a cycle take? Can i cycle with my fish in the tank or would that kill it? Do you scrub everything down (gravel, ornaments, tank etc) each time you change your water?
What's your setup? Where are you studying? I just bought a 5 gallon for my Betta fish who will be just over a year old come this May.
Post some photos.
Here are some pictures. Its not the best quality because I used my phone.
The tank is empty but I just ordered some plants, ornaments, and a new heater online. Hopefully they will come this week so that i can start cycling my tank and maybe my betta will stop fighting with its own reflection.
Offtopic: I swear, I have a laptop nearly exactly the same as yours.
Cleaning out a 5 gallon is really simple. Get a bucket ready, get your siphon, get the water through the siphon, and let it empty into the bucket. It takes about 20 or so seconds to drain out about half, i think. Maybe not even.
Dump the bucket somewhere. If you want to fill it up with the bucket, go ahead. Fill up the water (too much is okay, it's just you're wasting water haha) but try to match temperature as well as you can. Take your thermometer if needed, but you get used to it REALLY fast. Treat with water conditioner with appropriate amount. slowly poor back the water in. That should cover the very basics of it.
Offtopic: I swear, I have a laptop nearly exactly the same as yours.
Yeah...its an HP that i bought like 2 years ago.
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Originally Posted by xxabc
Cleaning out a 5 gallon is really simple. Get a bucket ready, get your siphon, get the water through the siphon, and let it empty into the bucket. It takes about 20 or so seconds to drain out about half, i think. Maybe not even.
Dump the bucket somewhere. If you want to fill it up with the bucket, go ahead. Fill up the water (too much is okay, it's just you're wasting water haha) but try to match temperature as well as you can. Take your thermometer if needed, but you get used to it REALLY fast. Treat with water conditioner with appropriate amount. slowly poor back the water in. That should cover the very basics of it.
If the tank is not cycled...do i need to scrub and rinse things like ornaments, plants etc. before putting the water back in the tank? and what is the best way to put the betta back into the tank so that it won't be stressed out?
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