How to Change the Water in Our Fish Tank

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Ryan Wells. I'm the owner of a local fish store located in Lindon, Utah and I'm going to show you how to do a general water change on your saltwater tank. Basically what I'm going to do is take out five gallons of my water, which is polluted in essence, and replace it with five gallons of clean water. First thing I'm going to do is I have my hose here, create a siphon I have a five gallon bucket that I'm just going to drain that five gallons into. Here you can see, this is the water that I've just taken out of the fish tank. If you notice how it has kind of a yellow or greenish tint to it, that's the organic pollutants in it. This is why it's important to do regular water changes. The tank on the other side is brand new, clean, fresh water, salt, freshly made salt water. But the idea is when you're doing a water change, is you're removing polluted water and adding clean, fresh water to the system. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to replace the water I just took out with five gallons of clean, brand new salt water. The way I do this is by dumping this into my sump located directly underneath my tank."