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does anybody have any idea why the water level in my 20 keeps dropping and dropping so very quickly. i know there is no leak because its not dropping that quick and i see or feel no water. if anyone has any ideas let me know if i can fix it

I didn't notice and am gonna be lazyyou're in the US right? If so or in the Northern Hemisphere, keep in mind it is summer time!

Even though the tank is inside, and the airconditioner is running there is a lot of evaporation going on, thus where the water is going, and why the water level is dropping...

I've noticed in the past couple of weeks my levels are dropping more than normal on my tanks, simply because of the evaporation...

Hints on helping this: Keep the lids shut, make sure the temp isn't too high, turn off the lights some if the heat is getting bad, cover up any areas that the lid is not covering, and well, just do more frequent top offs and water changes...

Also check your airlines to airpumps to be sure that one hasn't decided to siphon out for you, it does happen and you wouldn't notice right away...

That and do you have a cat? I know my cats used to love having a nice refreshing drink of sushi water now and again

heidi

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It's summer and the water is evaporating much faster than it does at other times of the year.

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water is evaporating...its summer...water evaps faster even with ac in the room...just top up with treated water when the water drops.

If you are 100% sure it is not a leak, it must be evaporation caused by excessive heat. Have plenty of prepared water on hand at all times and top up every night.

Keith

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in my bungalo during summer, it gets to 40 degress quite easily...and over nite i would loose bout 10-15 mil of water everyday...Do what keith says...get's annoying tho... hehehehe

If it's not leaking, than it evaporation.


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maybe the fish drank the water:%)

are you using air conditioning? if so it increases evaporation by lowering humidity.
try to cover the tank. it will help a lot (got AC running half the year, so i know how you feel).

summer leads to heat, heat leads to water evaportion, water evaportion leads to less water in the tanks

i end up adding more every week.

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Yup.. evaporation. My tanks lose lots of water this time of year too. If you don't top them off at water change time then just add a little bit more water to compensate.

Is your fish tank on the top floor of a house? I keep mine on the lower level only because i dont have to waste a lot of money on AC but my friend has his tank upstairs in his room and he loses about an inch and a half of water out of a ten gallon tank each DAY. And he keeps his water coming, his fish is doing good to it's like a frequint water change i guess. (minus the suction/cleaning part.) It's okay what your waters doing though dont stress.

Jess

i have some crazy news about wat the reason was the filter was leaking not the tank and i only checked the tank and what happened was it leaked on to my power surge and was minutes away from burning my house on fire i was home all alone and came upstairs to find my surge blowing sparks out i was happy to get there when i did i replaced the filter and everything is ok and also i forgot to explain myself in the first post i knew it wasnt normal evaporation because i have a tank right next to it and the tank wasnt losing water like the other one but thank you everyone for your help