Water changes. . . . What is your method?

[kboogie]

I currently do 50% water change once a year. I have a sulfur denitrator that keeps my nitrates at zero.

 

[Maize & Blue]

Some small variations! Got it down to 1-1/2 hrs.

 

[n2585722]

I have auto water changes setup and change out 4 times a day and do a 750 ml change each time on a 42 gallon tank. I use dosing pumps since my fresh saltwater reservoir is in the garage 35ft from the tank and the drain dumps into the kitchen sink drain but that is another 20 ft from the garage where the 2 pumps are at. My ATO pump is also in the garage.

 

[dsh92056]

150 gallon tank. 120 gallon actual volume. I have a 25 gallon drum in the garage with a pump and water heater. I alternate Saturday's, 15 gallon water change one Saturday, 10 gallon the next and so on. That’s a total of 50 gallons a month. I use a Python hose hooked up to a utility sink in the garage to remove the water, and a Sicce Ultrazero utility pump to add the water back to the tank using the Python hose. Easy peasy.

 

[Pridedcloth3]

What's a water change?

 

[jerricolaboy]

Mix 5 gallon of water on Sunday nite. Monday mornings at 7am I do a 5 gallon water change. Been doing it religiously since the beginning takes me less than 30mins in the morning. Quick simple and easy

 

[Garf]

What's a water change?

Smart

 

[Pridedcloth3]

Smart

10 years in and can't keep coral under control. The same 10 year old water.

 

[Garf]

10 years in and can't keep coral under control. The same 10 year old water.

No skimmer, or two part dosing in that 10 years? Calcium reactor I assume. You got a pic?

 

[FernBluffReef]

525L display (113 gallons / 143 gallons total before rock etc. just under 2 years old.

i change water every 3 weeks - 17.5 gallons so about 15%. I siphon 5 buckets filled to 3.5 gallon mark so as to avoid spilling. My mixing station is over in my shop so I fill a brute with 5 buckets of water and drive it over to the house and then use an ultra zero to pump the fresh salt water to the tank.

Nitrates are kept around 7ppm by dosing NeoNitro daily as tank will bottom out otherwise - probably result of daily fresh Phyto. For the first year I had to dose Phosphates, now I have to export and just started Lanthanum about two weeks ago as phosguard in a filter bag just wasn’t cutting it and don’t want to deal with a reactor.

I was so happy my tank never really went thru an ugly phase until I decided to try AquaForest LifeSource as a bacterial source. Ever since I have a mess of hair algae so dealing with uglies 12 months later. Not sure if just coincidence or just due to introduction of things that were not there with dead rock start. Still using but haven’t decided on value as yet

 

[Pridedcloth3]

No skimmer, or two part dosing in that 10 years? Calcium reactor I assume. You got a pic?

I use kalk and add a little fusion part 2 there is a skimmer. I recently stopped using afr just to see if there's a difference. I usually pay little attention to it in the summer because I'm usually busy keeping the garden going. At work this moment but I'll get one.

 

[Garf]

I use kalk and there is a skimmer. At work this moment

Is this the same tank? A 45g AIO?

 

[Pridedcloth3]

I'm talking about my 65g with the sump I got from my boss bud. Nice attempt. The 45 is a completely different deal because there's a dwarf lion and mantis. Which means there's a ton of rotting fish in can't get to.

 

[Garf]

I'm talking about my 65g with the sump I got from my boss bud. Nice attempt. The 45 is a completely different deal because there's a dwarf lion and mantis. Which means there's a ton of rotting fish in can't get to.

Ok, I know some folk get away with minimal waterchanges, skimmer etc. @Lasse for example, but he's pays very special attention to his tank.

 

[JHSteepat]

I run two Versa pumps, one from a container in my basement, the other to a sink in the basement and exchange a little over 1% daily over a couple of hours. The fill is downstream of the drain in the sump.

 

[Pridedcloth3]

Is this the same tank? A 45g AIO?

Just in case you wanted to challenge me having a job also. Slow internet in a 150 year old refinery

 

[Pridedcloth3]

Ok, I know some folk get away with minimal waterchanges, skimmer etc. @Lasse for example, but he's pays very special attention to his tank.

I don't have to, if I get a notification from neptune I deal with it. If not the same fish with the same coral and sand lights, etc nothing changes.

 

[t5Nitro]

Not in 3 years. SPS dominant mixed reef. By last Oceamo ICP, nitrate about 77 and phosphate 0.1.

I do keep meaning to start doing small volume daily small water changes to use up the box of Aqua Forest that lives on the basement floor, but it hasn't happened yet.

 

[Garf]

I'm talking about my 65g with the sump I got from my boss bud

So your boss told you it hadn't had any waterchanges? How long have you had it? I take it that's it's a bare bottom if you moved it without ditching some water.

 

[Rmack]

I use the triton method so I haven’t done a water change in almost a decade