Water Changes

JR's Reef · Mar 17, 2009

I normaly do 20% once a month but time has not been on my side lately due to my son think he has to play every sport and has been keeping me very busy since fall of last yr. So its been around 4-5 months since ive done a water change

Frank · Mar 17, 2009

Heavy bio-load I change 10 gallons weekly to keep the nitrates at 15PPM. I also skim 24/7 add KW when needed.

Frank · Mar 17, 2009

My tank is 65gallons I also use natural sea water.

benjabba · Mar 17, 2009

I do 15 gallons a week on about a 220 gallon system.

Searobin · Mar 18, 2009

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Ok, finally got it to work. I use an ASMg4x along with a fluidized reactor filled with Rowaphos. There is a 20 gallon refugium as well. I dose Tropic Marin bio-calcium and bio-mag. Very little drop off in salinity.

rebecca · Mar 18, 2009

155 bowfront, 36 gallon sump, hob cheap skimmer but pulls skim here and there. No filter socks. 9 watt uv constant and nothing else. Been going for a few years. Top of by bucket with ro/di. Sump all sand, rock macro with t5 on it. Run it oposite as tank lights. Maybe 5 to 10 gallons a month tops. Feed with Rods, and may add little supplements here and there, nothing really tho. Do not add trace elements ever. I just let it run natural and let the tank break all down. Small fish tho, nothing major.

acronautical · Mar 18, 2009

150 stony coral reef running since June, 2007. Made a huge mistake by loading sand from prior 55 nitrate factory into this system. I't been a battle royale with dinoflagellates on the sand (only, not the rock) ever since. Began doing weekly 27 1/2 gallon water changes last June, and I am now winning the battle. GFO has been in play for the past two months, and I believe that is assisting as well.

gparr · Mar 19, 2009

20 gal. weekly in my 65 and 10 gal. weekly in my 40 breeder.
Gary

mevstheworld · Mar 19, 2009

40g tank with 15g sump and no skimmer. I do bi-weekly water changes. One with 5g and the next 10g alternating. Manual top-off with ro/di a little under 1g a day. Feed a couple times a week, everything fat and healthy. 4 fish. Still a young tank though.

Brad Syphus · Mar 19, 2009

On my 2 tanks I have a 35 g mixing barrel that I do waterchanges. 5 gallons goes to my 65g and 30 gallons to my 225g. About every 10 days.

SDguy · Mar 20, 2009

35g every two weeks on my 115g :(.

Darn all those fish!!

nismo_32 · Mar 21, 2009

i do 50 gallons weekly on a 225. and no water changes on my 55 gal fish only. havent done one in 4 years and no fish lost....

Nate82 · Mar 23, 2009

i do 20% waterchanges about every 4 months and add salt with top off every once in a while and my tank is great... cept for the dang cyano

bushh23 · Mar 23, 2009

25g bi-weekly on my 75g with a 30g sump half filled

cloakerpoked · Mar 23, 2009

I actually neglected to do a water change in my tank from September through January, and just recently started doing 15% water changes monthly. I'll try to get a FTS later today, but the natural filtration in the 200 gallon system was more than sufficient for the 4 or 5 fish it was supporting. I fed about twice a week to get the palys and anenomes some food, but other than that, the fish I had (1 tomato clown, 1 6 line wrasse, 1 watchman goby, 1 yellow damsel, and one chromis) lived off the pods from the fuge and 200+ pounds of LR.

Hypertek99 · Mar 23, 2009

I use to do 10% weekly but now i do it monthly.

cloakerpoked · Mar 23, 2009

Most of my SPS and clam were fairly recent (within the last 2 months) additions to the tank at this point, so the stock that's in there at the time is somewhat misleading. Had a bad bout with slime algea, so I started doing regular water changes with RO/DI water. (before that had been using tap as top off water.) My tank sorta threw a lot of general conventions out the window for the short-term, but recently I've appreciated how fortunate I was to have my tank still in tact, and have begun a lot more responsible reefkeeping practices. Still, never had a nitrate test above 0ppm in the year I had that tank without water changes.