The Water Change Club

king_neptune

king_neptune

Active Member
I'm a new member to the water change club ^_^
Ive been stress testing my system for the last 4 months to see what I can get away with. I just started doing WC last week, I plan to swap 15g later tonight for my weekly 10%.
WC is a vital step in adding key nutrients to your water. Its not mandatory, but it is a great practice. As far as needing it for removing waste...my foam wall, scrubber, and Carbon/GFO did superb. Now that Ive added a skimmer and WC to the mix, I cant wait to see how it looks in 2 months.
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

Active Member
  • 42gal change -- 90gal reef system (1/22/10) let it slide
  • 3gal change -- 10gal planted QT (1/23/10)
    15gal change -- 60gal holding tank (1/31/10)
    15gal change -- 55gal holding tank (1/31/10)
 
beaslbob

beaslbob

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55g formerly mixed reef currently fo started 2003
10g Fw started 2002
20g FW started 2006
29g mixed reef started 2006
1g FW nano started 2008
no water changes ever.
 
king_neptune

king_neptune

Active Member
Originally Posted by beaslbob
http:///forum/post/3220518
55g formerly mixed reef currently fo started 2003
10g Fw started 2002
20g FW started 2006
29g mised reef started 2006
1g FW nano started 2008
no water changes ever.
isn't that the norm for FW?
 
cranberry

cranberry

Active Member
Ya, everyone seems fine. Not happy, but fine. And it HAD to be the tank with my 2 favorite fish in it.
 
mastertech

mastertech

Member
5 G every 5-7 days on the 125g.
5g on 2-1-10
oh.. great idea cran. if we keep the tab going it will surely keep us honest (hopefully)
 
beaslbob

beaslbob

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Originally Posted by King_Neptune
http:///forum/post/3220563
Never done FW, or even really read up on it.
Do you have to dose anything to sustain nutrient levels?
If this is for me, I use the diy two part on the salt tanks to maintain calcium, carbonates (alk), and magnesium. On the FW nothing. I do find the peat moss in the substrate help maintain constant KH and gh in Fw. Otherwise they slowly climb.
edit: nitrates and phosphates are unmesureable and pH (api high range test kit) is 8.4-8.8 on all tanks including FW.
my .02
 
S

shrimpy brains

Guest
25g on the 125g reef 1-31-10
Upgrade 5g Dwarf Horses to 10g 1-31-10 (that's like a 50% wc, right
)
1g on the 10g lion, wasp
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

Active Member
  • 42gal change -- 90gal reef system (1/22/10) let it slide
  • 3gal change -- 10gal planted QT (1/23/10)
  • 15gal change -- 60gal holding tank (1/31/10)
    15gal change -- 55gal holding tank (1/31/10)
    15gal change -- 55gal holding tank (2/1/10)
    8gal change -- 10gal planted QT (2/1/10)
Got some new guys on the way. Getting the tanks ready
 
zsqure

zsqure

Member
15 gal water change every sun morn. 90g rr / 30 gal sump prob 100 gal total sys vol. I can tell when it is needed, or if I get lazy and skip a week. I don't test and have not done so for almost a year. Make my own salt/ro water and do test that for sg, phos. Other than that things seem to be good. I run cheato in the sump on a reverse lighting cycle.
 
peglet

peglet

Member
I did a 45g water change on my 210 and a 50g on my 100 freshwater on Monday. I have been lax due to extensive knee surgery, but could not take looking at the water. I usually do a 25 to 30g water change every two weeks, especially on my saltwater.
 
bulldog123

bulldog123

Member
I try to do a 10-15g every week on the 54 and 20-25g on the 144. But this thread has inspired me to count my used buckets of salt. I have had a 54g tank for about 14 months and a 120 traded for a 144 about 4 months. If I have read the bucket correctly 200g per bucket that equals 1000g of used water in 14 months.
 
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