Poll - Water Changes

[Sherita]

How often do you do water changes? Let's see what our members are up to! Discussion, as always, is very welcome :)

[hobogato]

twice a week on all tanks:

5 gallons on the 250
2.5 gallons each on 28 and 29

[Big_Pun]

dont be shy people it anonymous you wont get hunted down........

i do the 150g once a month at 20-30g

[Sherita]

Twice a week here too.

4 gallons on the 72 (high bioload)
1.5 gallons on the 30 (low bioload)
3 gallons on the 65 and the 50
4 gallons on the 140

[Sherita]

dont be shy people it anonymous you wont get hunted down........

i do the 150g once a month at 20-30g

Hey Chris, throw your vote up there in the poll :)

No flaming on this thread, we want to hear what everyone does. Heck, we might just learn something new!

[Big_Pun]

Hey Chris, throw your vote up there in the poll :)

No flaming on this thread, we want to hear what everyone does. Heck, we might just learn something new!
i voted then commented im the only once a month lol so far

[Flyride95]

Wow I feel like I'm slacking now lol. I do a 10% change every month.

[koa25]

I adopted the Ace method of two small WCs a week. I've seen the benefits. Well I know its not his method. But I stole it off his build thread as I read through it ha ha.

[allan]

I do 4-5 gallons a day.

No real reason other than I use the old water to rinse my fish food before feeding, and I need the bucket full so my fish net will let the food rest in the water until thawed. Averages around 30-35 gallons a week.

It also gives me an idea of how much crap is in the fish food. If I forget to toss out the bucket of water that night, it's smelling kind of foul the next day... and that's just the packing fluid that comes with the fish food.

[Reefnub]

I do 25g water change every 2 to 3 months on my 65g. Total water is 80g with sump.


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[alton]

Once a week on my small tanks - 40 and 65 (6 gal ea.), once a month on my 300 (60 gal). Since I can't vote twice I did the once a week.

[Big_Pun]

I do 25g water change every 2 to 3 months on my 65g. Total water is 80g with sump.


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gotta love bio-pellets! sometimes i will go that long also and my tank doesnt seem any diff

[hobogato]

that is the drawback to my tanks, if i miss many water changes in a row, it really shows in the tanks. last summer i did a larger (30 gallon) water change on the 250 before our vacation, but the 10 days between that and getting back on the normal schedule really showed in the tank. it was a couple of weeks before it looked normal again.

[Sherita]

that is the drawback to my tanks, if i miss many water changes in a row, it really shows in the tanks. last summer i did a larger (30 gallon) water change on the 250 before our vacation, but the 10 days between that and getting back on the normal schedule really showed in the tank. it was a couple of weeks before it looked normal again.

Ace, what did you see that was different due to the missed water changes?

I slacked on my 72g a while back, and whooeeee, the algae went nuts.

[hobogato]

minor loss of color and polyp extension on some corals, more algae/cyano. nothing major, i could just tell it was a bit off.

[Reefnub]

gotta love bio-pellets! sometimes i will go that long also and my tank doesnt seem any diff

Yea I treat my little tank like its a 500g tank lol. Yea the bio pellets really let you save money on salt.


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[Big_Pun]

Yea I treat my little tank like its a 500g tank lol. Yea the bio pellets really let you save money on salt.


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in one year my tank has gone through 2 buckets of salinity. thats including starting the tank and making 175g of new water

[FireWater]

I do two 10g changes a week on my 120g.

Like Ace said, if I get lazy I see the changes. Cyano outbreaks.

[Kristy]

We max out the fish load in our tanks so all three carry a really heavy bio load. Consequently I feel it's my responsibility to give them some clean water once a week. We do somewhere between 10-20% weekly with very occasional slacking (holidays, etc) where we go to two weeks.

[rrasco]

I try to do a 5% every week. I tried to get on the 2x a week bandwagon, but I just don't keep up with it so I'm actually more like 5% bi-weekly.

[OrionN]

Once a month. 15 g for a 65 g tank, 40 g in a 300 gal system. 5 gal for a 30 gal tank and 5 gal for a 24 g tank.
Soon I am going to consolidate to a 340 g tank with ~75 gal sump and 50 gal refugium. I will likely change 50 g every month on that system.

[jrossjr79]

Have not fully decided as of yet, leaning to doing 12 gallons every two weeks, that may change once my tank is going.

[KING]

Once a week. .10g on a 95g..an going to do..5g o. A 70

[allan]

I have been encouraging cyano growth in my sump using the TV method to keep the DT clean. So far it's working. Or rather, I don't worry about it when I see it in the sump. Just rinsing the food before feeding the tank seems to keep the cyano at bay.

[Scutterborn]

I'm doing twice weekly 5g water changes (Wednesday and Saturday) on the 185 and weekly 5g water changes on the 28g(Saturday). Like Alton, I could only vote once so I went with the twice weekly vote.


-Ben-

[Fracture]

We do 5-10 gallons a week on our 40 depending on how things are looking most of the time it's a 5 gallon though. I think I may change to a twice a week program though after reading this thread :)

[Zen Reef]

I used to do 40 gallons weekly on my 275 gallon system. It's now been about 3 months since my last water change. Nothing's really changed in the system. All parameters are still in line. 5 nitrates, .25 phosphates. 1460 mag, 480 cal, 11.2 alk, 1.026 salinity. No bio-pellets or gfo. Just a decent sized fuge and a additional Xenia fuge with a Kalk reactor. I'm beginning to wonder about the importance of regular water changes...if nothing else, I'm trying to justify my laziness. :)

[Big_Pun]

my parameters are 480cal, 8-10dkg alk , I don't test mag, phosphates stay .01-.02, 0 nitrates. my ph is a lil low 7.5-7.8 throughout day.

crazy all the diff techniques we use, but each system is diff. reefnub seems to be closest to mine as we both keep lots of Sps and same husbandry

[Tempset]

I've read blogs of zero water change systems. And they thrive.

Wish I could find those links again.

[Paul28]

I do 1 or 2 times a week 5g

[Paul28]

I used to do 40 gallons weekly on my 275 gallon system. It's now been about 3 months since my last water change. Nothing's really changed in the system. All parameters are still in line. 5 nitrates, .25 phosphates. 1460 mag, 480 cal, 11.2 alk, 1.026 salinity. No bio-pellets or gfo. Just a decent sized fuge and a additional Xenia fuge with a Kalk reactor. I'm beginning to wonder about the importance of regular water changes...if nothing else, I'm trying to justify my laziness. :)


i went 6 months 1 time and wow the hair alge went crazy but im down to no hair alge anymore love my new foxface :) he even likes red slime alge insane never seen that before