no need for water changes

[acrylic51]

....I have to agree with reefkprz!!!!! Basically what your saying is your first hand knowledge or experience is proving some of the best in the field; hobby wrong......Why not contact individuals with some spectacular setups and see what they tell you??????

Try doing that on a strict SPS tank. I guess it would work as well?

 

[ameno]

I'm not saying I'm proving anybody wrong, but I don't think you can say if you don't do what I do you will fail. I do think what you have to do all depends on the system you have and what your trying to keep in your system, I am also saying that I do think no mather what some water changes will benifit your tank. But if one person has a system that they handle a certain way and that works for them that's great, why change just because someone else has a different opinion. What matter is what works.
By the way I have SPS also and they are doing great.

 

[buffett]

i have to say that ive done this with my 37 gal tank several years ago, although i did not have all of the other stuff he has, the tank at that time was a fowlr and i went through some really tough times and no intrest in it at all and i have to say that the tank was beautiful great coraline every place, no algae, the fish looked great.
i do water changes on a reg. basis and would do it no other way but i just thought i would put my two cents in.

 

[superhero]

i have a 150 and i have also not been doing water changes...(primarly because i am in college and never have any money to buy salt or anything for that matter haha)... but i havnt put anything in the tank for probally 10 months and havnt done a water change in that time. I have noticed coral growth and my anemonie has almost quadroupled in size... i put a frogspwan frag in 10 months ago and it has also grown from 1 head to 4 heads i have great coraline growth and all my inhabitants are doing fine... i have even had a madarine goby in my tank for a year and a half... now im not saying that it is a good thing that i dont do any waterchanges... but i works for me... if you have the money, i would encourage you to do at least a 25% watercange every month (thats what i was doing before college)... its not the end of the world if you don't do water changes but you will probally be a little better off if you did do a water change every now and then... just my 2 cents