How many people actually do their water changes?

[joncat24]

I do 20 gallons weekly on my 180

 

[madman33]

Originally Posted by HatesSushi
IMO the "yes...almost always" choice is misleading in that it indicates that well sometimes I forget. there should be another choice that says "Yes...all the time" or as scheduled, or just yes.
only allows me to put 2 choices

otherwise i would have

 

[crazyaqua]

I dont do water changes

 

[lazypinoy]

Originally Posted by crazyaqua
I dont do water changes
i dont do water changes to my agressive, just top off. but i do w/c on my reefs.(15% 3 times a month. on tha reef.)

 

[arandacole]

Originally Posted by LazyPinoy
i dont do water changes to my agressive, just top off. but i do w/c on my reefs.(15% 3 times a month. on tha reef.)

How come you don't do water changes on that tank? Just curious, I do not know a thing about aggressive tanks.
Thanks,
Love,
A

 

[madman33]

Ok and now how many of those people who dont do changes regualrily have had any problems? Not trying to prve anything here just curious...me myself i dont do water changes as often as i should and have never had anything bad happen on my reef and everybody is happy and growing like crazy...

 

[crazyaqua]

Never done water changes to my fish only and my reef tanks just reg r/o top offs only lost 3 fish in 5 years due to stress issues with other fish. not saying it works for everyone but has worked so far for me.

 

[lazypinoy]

Originally Posted by Arandacole
How come you don't do water changes on that tank? Just curious, I do not know a thing about aggressive tanks.
Thanks,
Love,
A
in my agressive/fish only tank there isnt anything that is nitrate intolerant so i dont bother as much on that. to replace the nutrients lost through skimming and filtration i dose the water with kent marine essiental elements every 2 weeks. yet if the nitrate is over 180 + that maybe too much, so i may do a rare 15 gallon w/c on the 55. i like to keep it around 80 and below but it never gets any higher in my tank. plus i havent lost a fish since early september, but its death was fish harrasment.
yet on my reef i have hundreds of dollars of stock and i feel that i must do water changes in there more to keep the water at top quality. id never let the nitrates in this tank go past 40.

 

[swlover]

I do reg 10% water changes in all my sw tanks every week..only about once every 3 months in FW, just top off, but I do clean my filters every week on all tanks. I also dredge the water on all tanks scoop out debis, floating crap, etc. everyday!

 

[sea worthy]

I change 32gal. of my120 every 30 days :joy:

 

[big]

I do a full 5 gallons ever 4 or 5 days in my 72 bow

 

[xdave]

I've never used a calendar to decide when to change my water. I test nitrate every week. When it hits 10, I change 25%. I retest the next day and change whatever it takes to get it to 0.