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If you have a 10 gallon and replace 10 gallons per day, isnt it more like a 1000 gallons water capacity chemistry wise? Or a million gallons?

Imagine a slow drain of new saltwater contimously replacing this tanks water with clean water all day. 10 gallons or 5 gallons a day.

I kind of want to set this up just to see how it goes.
 

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There is setups like this, just look for Automatic water changes.
I'm not sure about your math bit there a little calculator somewhere that tells you how much water you're actually changing when you do a wc, and how much original water is left after a series of waterchanges.
 

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So to be clear you want yo continually drain and add water to your tank... i guess in theory itll work but it wont give your tank time to stabilize (cycle) water chemistry... maybe 1 gallon every 2 days or something like that may be more suitable. Also think about the amount of money you will be spending on salt to make water.

I have heard about a tank like this. Search auto water change
 
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So to be clear you want yo continually drain and add water to your tank... i guess in theory itll work but it wont give your tank time to stabilize (cycle) water chemistry... maybe 1 gallon every 2 days or something like that may be more suitable. Also think about the amount of money you will be spending on salt to make water.

I have heard about a tank like this. Search auto water change
Yes i see, but salt for a 10 gallon is cheap. Think of the cost of test kits, and additives. With salt you dont need it. Instant ocean 160 gallon mic at 5 gallons a day is a month or so of water changes for a 10 gallon.
 

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A number of artificial salt mixes contain ammonia......it's just in there. You're fine doing lower volumes of water changes, but I'm concerned with changes over 50% (to pick a number). I certainly would not consider repeated 100% water changes, with the concern with excess ammonia.
 

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