To offten water changes

BlazinNano

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Is there such thing as two offten water changes? I have a 29 gallon AIO tank and the back holds about 5 gallons. With all the rock I would say I have about 25-26 gallons. Is a 5 gallon water change weekly to much for the tank. I have been working alot untill I got laid off 2 days ago and I was not keeping up with the tank at all. Everything is living but nothing is growing or happy. I mean the green button polyps have not popped out a new baby in probably 2 months and they use to grow like weeds. But should I do weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly?
 

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Generally 20% a month wc is good. If you are not running a skimmer and want to keep lps and especially sps, then changing more water is a good idea. Go slowly if doing a large change.
 

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i have a 20T right now and i do a 1g change every other day... plus i have no skimmer. I have no problems.

I think it is perfectly fine to do frequent water changes as long as they arent to large all at one time.
 

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i do a 5 gal water change every other day on my 110 gal 40 gal sump but i have been low on salt so ive have to take that back but i will go back to that asap going to go get 6 5 gal bucket's mon or tue then it's on
 

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Just make sure the parmaters of the water change water is the same as the tank then you can change as much and as often as you would like
 

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