Water Changes

Subject: Re: Water Changes Sat May 24, 2008 12:30 am

ph is perfect all levels read perfect its not a new tank and was running for about almost a year before i started to put any fish or such in ( oh soory i had 5 blue damsels in it till it was ready for me to put better stuff in) It just seems like one of those if it ain't hurting things (other than my skin) don't mess with it.

Subject: Re: Water Changes Sat May 24, 2008 6:10 pm

i do water changes every month or sometimes every three months... but about once a year i do a major 90%+ waterchange to every tank...

i have more than enough filtration and water circulation on each tank... not to mention that i have over 10 100g+ tanks... i have like a schedule of sorts to log when i should and what tank i should do next... it's very complicated...

Subject: Re: Water Changes Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:28 pm

Since-I-have-so-many-plants-and-tons-of-Java-moss-and-I-way-over-do-the-filtration-I-don't-worry-about-ammonia,-nitrites,-or-nitrates......My-main-reason-for-water-changes-is-to-dilute-the-minerals-and-trace-elements-that-get-left-in-the-tanks-with-evaporation......I-top-off-the-tanks-whenever-the-levels-go-down-and-do-water-changes-after-every-5-10-top-offs.

Subject: water change temp; just a note Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:00 pm

We've been doing weekly 75% changes on this cloudy 75gal goldfish tank.

The best guess on cause is cheap store brand food.
That's gone now, lesson learned.

SO, when changing 50+ gal water one must give the water heater some recovery time or the input will get colder and colder and any tropical fish in there will be shocked.

I know this sounds like common sense but my new helper expressed that his spouse did not catch on to that readily, so I thought I might put that out there. It may/could catch anyone off guard anyhow.

pH shock is bad news, too. If I do a change after a months time I make my son do the math for a moderate pH change at a time

Testing tank, %left in, tap/source, you get overall change.

Over the years I found that any water change based stress on my fish: the third time is irreversable slow death.

Subject: Re: Water Changes Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:49 am

No matter what I usually try t do a water change every 2 weeks, but there are the odd times where it could be 3 or 4 weeks. I think water changes are important to the over all health of the tank and fish.
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Subject: Re: Water Changes Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:53 pm

Now that i'm starting from scratch i almost forgot how much of a pain in the ass water changes are but altleast i'm sarting to get somewhere with the new tanks.
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