I'm probably the worst at doing water changes, and my wife refuses to do more than sprinkle a little fish food into the display... I'm active duty Navy, and so I'm gone a lot. So I suppliment calcium, magnesium, and an essencial elements blend into my tank every few weeks. I have Tangs, clowns, and a few others, along with annenomes and soft corals. Never had a single issue as long as everything is running, only lost fish once when my sump return pump died overnight, that was pretty tramatic on my fish, but I prettymuch never do a waterchange. Am I setting myself up for epic failure? This is my first reef tank, been set up and populated for probably 3 months now, 135g with a 25 gallon Fuge and sump, with crazy macro growth and tons, and i mean tons, of amphipods and copepods. 2x oversize skimmer, skimmer runs on same cycle as my lights. I'm planning on getting a dosing system in the near future so that I don't have to sit and measure everything out and dose all at once every few weeks. Plus when I'm deployed for long periods of time it will make my wife's life easier. But yeah... that's what I do, and I have an ATO so my salinity doesnt fluctuate often.