waterchange routine

[davejnz]

How often does everyone actually do a waterchange?What percentage of the tank's volume do you change out?

[lReef lKeeper]

i do a water change usually once every month, and it is about a 20% change out because i don't keep a lot of fish. in the fish only tank it is about 25% on the same day as the reef tank.

[segraves1]

never......I used to do water changes (since I have no skimmer or "filter" on the 20gal....just ~20lbs of live rock and ~35-40lbs of live sand) but have since noticed that everything seems to be very happy with the higher nutriant levels (feather dusters, macros, etc.) and neither the zoanthids nor even the anemone seem to mind the setup (the nitrate levels are 0).....so why bother......I'll be setting up a 110gal (~180gal total system volume) soon that will have a skimmer but will still rely mostly on live rock, sand, and macros (will have probubly 150lbs of live rock and 200lbs of sand in the total system).....

[jerryc]

I change out 6 gallon each week used to do the one time a month but
seams like ever thing is happier with the smaller changes

[Dirt4dinner]

I do 1 tall drinking glass a day in the nano. And then I am planning on monthly changes to the 70 gallon, some where in the neighborhood of 20-30%.

[Reptoreef]

I'm just too lazy... hardly ever, but Sat I may have time to do a 30 gl... the girls will be on a trip and it's just gonna be me alone.

[Sweetpea]

I want do a water change once a week, but I usually don't get it done that frequently. I voted for every two weeks because that's more along the lines of how often I actually do it.

I forgot to add if it is the usual 2 weeks, I do a 20-30% change (10-20% for a weekly change).

[perpetual98]

I TRY to change 20-25 gallons in my 120G tanks every other weekend, but sometimes they go a month between changes when I'm particularly lazy. When I'm dialed in, I do the 20-25G change every weekend on one of the tanks. I usually can get a few gallons changed out on the frag farm every weekend too. I generally have about 30G of fresh saltwater at my disposal.

[peregrinus]

The only time i do any water change is when i put water in a cooler to take stuff to the LFS and place it..

[chrisl1]

I don't see a reason if your parameters are good, I think the last one I did was almost a year ago,the less I mess with the tank the better it does, all of my corals are doing quite well, all i do is clean my skimmer add topoff water, calcium, strontium , molybidium and purple up. It seems to be working for me.