Refilling a Fish Tank With a Python Hose

Video Transcript

"CHRISTIE OWNES: Hi, my name is Christie and I'm with Expert Village and I'm teaching you proper care of fish today and a little bit about the different types of fish. Now I'm going to teach you how to fill the fish tank up. I've got the python on my hand with a hose pinch so that the water cannot go out. But the water is slowly dripping out of this so you're going from the kitchen to the living room. Be sure you can and be able to fast walking in doing this. When you're going to fill the tank up, put the head of the python onto the sink and let go of the hose very slowly so that you don't wash the fish out of the tank. If you let it go too fast, you can actually hurt your fish and bruise them. This process will kill them. There's also a step of a chlorine remover which this one is an aqua safe that I got. It removes chlorine out of the water and what I'm going to do is take the cap off, spurt a bunch in the tank. Usually, it's one cap full for every ten gallons of water but being a pro like I am, I know how much water that I take out of the tank which is about twenty gallons of water. So now, in this bottle, I had enough for twenty gallons that I just put in to it. But as I'm filling the tank, I installed the python here into the tank and I put the chlorine remover in there. And the chlorine remover works instantly so you don't have to let the tank sit. If you're not comfortable with putting the python head into the tank with the chlorine remover as I did, please feel free to make sure you have five gallon buckets that are clean that have not been used for chemicals, washing cars or soap in them. Fill the buckets up with water, add the chlorine remover to the buckets of water and then you can pour them into the tank. But if you're comfortable with doing your water changes as I have shown you here, then, you can also do this way as well. This is you're kinda have more of the professional people do water changes on our fish tank. But sometimes even doing this and the water companies decide to put a lot of chlorine remover in the tank and you can smell it a little bit when you're going to adjust your water temperature or when you drink the water, you may add just a little bit more chlorine remover to the tank to remove that out. To fill the tank up, it'll approximately take three to five minutes. It's not as long as draining water out of the tank which you can see the water temperature--well, the water level to the tank is rising very fastly. Our time again at approximately 5 minutes to explain more, I had to turn the tank back on what the filter is going to do and finish with the closing process on how to take care of your fish tank."