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Davidwissman85

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20-30% water change either every two weeks, or when I hate myself for slacking (3-4 weeks). I'm trying to get back into the habit :unsure:

 

I'm also worried that aqua vitro salinity mix may not sit well for a week if I split the water between two changes. Maybe I can keep RO/DI water in another container and add it to the mixing bucket when needed? Hmmm.

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2.5 gallons every ten days to three weeks on my 16 gallon. Every once in a while (2 months or so) drain complete except for enough room for clownfish to flop and refill with new water.

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Currently

 

Thursday 10pm I put my RODI water in a 5 gallon bucket to a mark I made, add salt

Thursday When that's done I turn on heater, pump and let it sit

Friday I get home from work around 5pm - check salinity - add/remove salt/water

Friday around 530pm I start siphon of tank to dirty 5 Gallon bucket to same mark I made on salt mix bucket

Friday around 535 I use the hose from syphon, bring to pump outlet and it pumps now new saltwater

and the pump does all the work... I poor the remaining .5 gallon in the tanks top.

 

So I guess I do it weekly to answer the question more accurately. I have a biocube 29G and do 5 Gallon weekly.

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right now, I'm changing out 10 gallons weekly on my 66. Since with the sump, total water volume is around 75 gallons, it ends up being between 10-15%.

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2.5gal on Nuvo 10 every five days and extra when I feel like it. Nitrates are usually between 5-10ppm if I wait for 10days to come.

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meh..On my 34 when I remember sometimes 8 months,10 gallons and thats really done just to clean out the back AIO chambers of crap.. My 8 I will swap out 5 gallons every few months. I really have no Idea why I do it or understand the point of it. Just seems like the right thing to do and the general census on the forums seems to be do water changes.. With a good skimmer and filtration it kinda seems pointless. I am dumping new fresh RODI water in the tanks on the daily. The filtration is pulling the nasty out. I really don't think they are as important as people think they are. Yeah if your running a filterless pico by all means do regular changes. Other than that If you replace what is being taken from your water with dosing your golden. Hell hasnt opened up and crashed my tank cause I dont obey the water change rules

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So over all, we are all averaging a 10-15% change every week...

 

i did 10-20% daily for 1 month when i was having issues

 

that fixed them

 

now 18% weekly to every other week.

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I just do whatever I have time for... I'm horrible!! :closedeyes:

 

This! I just did my first water change on the fw shrimp tank in over a year.

 

My reef tank is showing the neglect right now so i've been trying to do better by it and have been hitting it for 5-10g a week right now on my 28gal

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meh..On my 34 when I remember sometimes 8 months,10 gallons and thats really done just to clean out the back AIO chambers of crap.. My 8 I will swap out 5 gallons every few months. I really have no Idea why I do it or understand the point of it. Just seems like the right thing to do and the general census on the forums seems to be do water changes.. With a good skimmer and filtration it kinda seems pointless. I am dumping new fresh RODI water in the tanks on the daily. The filtration is pulling the nasty out. I really don't think they are as important as people think they are. Yeah if your running a filterless pico by all means do regular changes. Other than that If you replace what is being taken from your water with dosing your golden. Hell hasnt opened up and crashed my tank cause I dont obey the water change rules

 

I have no argument for this and I like it... I few years ago I didn't do water changes on my 75G bowfront for almost a year, just top off and it was a very successful tank.

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I have no argument for this and I like it... I few years ago I didn't do water changes on my 75G bowfront for almost a year, just top off and it was a very successful tank.

Might be less probematic on an RODI base tank as opposed to tap, since adding water includes more and more junk. .

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