I am curious on when people modified their water change habit. Skipping a week or going cold turkey.
I recently moved from a 20g to 100g. In my 20g, i did 15-20% WC weekly religiously unless I was traveling. I am sure it helped a lot in the beginning, but almost seemed to make things worse towards the end (upsetting the stability).
in my 100g, I have 85lbs dry (precycled), 15 lbs ocean rock. Slightly oversized skimmer, bio bricks, large fuge, etc. Parameters after month 1 have beginning to level out. 3 N, .08 P, 8.3 alk (dosing AFR). Large CuC.
I’ve been doing 10% WC so far, and outside of the expected diatoms and a little neon green, no algae in the display (fuge is another story)
I’ve dumped a couple of rounds of pods into the tank, plus seeded it from some stuff at ipsf. Correline is starting to spread to the dry rocks, etc.
I know I am still far away from 0 WC territory being so new. However, I am also in the zone of not wanting to lower nutrients much lower (eg considering actually dosing a little N).
What are the markers to skip a WC? I would almost like to be able to say: do water change if X is needed.
When would you modify your schedule.
I recently moved from a 20g to 100g. In my 20g, i did 15-20% WC weekly religiously unless I was traveling. I am sure it helped a lot in the beginning, but almost seemed to make things worse towards the end (upsetting the stability).
in my 100g, I have 85lbs dry (precycled), 15 lbs ocean rock. Slightly oversized skimmer, bio bricks, large fuge, etc. Parameters after month 1 have beginning to level out. 3 N, .08 P, 8.3 alk (dosing AFR). Large CuC.
I’ve been doing 10% WC so far, and outside of the expected diatoms and a little neon green, no algae in the display (fuge is another story)
I’ve dumped a couple of rounds of pods into the tank, plus seeded it from some stuff at ipsf. Correline is starting to spread to the dry rocks, etc.
I know I am still far away from 0 WC territory being so new. However, I am also in the zone of not wanting to lower nutrients much lower (eg considering actually dosing a little N).
What are the markers to skip a WC? I would almost like to be able to say: do water change if X is needed.
When would you modify your schedule.