Are Water Changes Actually Necessary?

Do you change your water?

  • No

    Votes: 3 0.7%

  • Not unless conditions require it (like high nitrates)

    Votes: 60 13.8%

  • Yes, I do it on a specific timeline (daily, weekly, whatever)

    Votes: 358 82.3%

  • Undecided / Other

    Votes: 14 3.2%
  • Total voters
    435
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Fishfriend1 said:
Umm ok a little slower plz lol. I dont understand that statement. If anything put into and environment that can build up to deadly is pollution then why does this only refer to us? Also the point is to not put anything in.

Hey this is already of topic lol.
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Wow. That was a pretty basic statement.

It applies to any body of water be it your aquarium or the ocean.

You are adding in the moment you put something alive in your tank. No way to get around that.
 
jpappy789 said:
Am I the only person who finds water changes to be fun? LOL

I think there is a fine line between an ecosystem and an aquarium....you can try to simulate Mother Nature as much as possible but you will never come close to replicating it...anyone who thinks otherwise is foolish.
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This I agree with

kazvorpal said:
Yes, and things like a deep sand bed with freshwater invertebrates do create a sort of ecosystem.




Not true at all.

I have been citing means of doing exactly what you're talking about. Algae, plants, invertebrates, deep sand/mud beds, et cetera. You don't have to use "dangerous and ugly" things.

Well, perhaps not as pretty as you'd want, though. A lot of what we do "for the fish", we're actually doing for ourselves. The fish would be healthier if we let algae grow in the tank, for example, but we're willing to sacrifice that fishly desire because we don't like how it looks.

You certainly can have pretty fish that take the roles of minnows in a tank, though. Danios, for example...I keep giant danios in my main cichlid tank.
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You actually haven't cited anything (or if you did I missed it totally). You h ave just given your opinions. I would love to read some literature and studies on what you are talking about. I am fairly certain with some digging I could find some to support the "accepted" theory that water changes are indeed necessary in an aquarium.

jpappy789 said:
You're right...because comparing the EARTH to an aquarium is a perfect analogy.
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oh pappy you crack me up
 
247Plants said:
Wow. That was a pretty basic statement.

It applies to any body of water be it your aquarium or the ocean.

You are adding in the moment you put something alive in your tank. No way to get around that.
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By that standard earth has been "polluted" by life.
 
Fishfriend1 said:
By that standard earth has been "polluted" by life.
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Welcome to the 21st century. The gravity of the statement you just made has been echoed through history.
 
I am a true believer in life from space rock. We have no way of know exactly how life got here but still. Earth was sterile at one point, so was the fishtank (not including bacteria). Earth is an enclosed system and so is a fishtank. I had a comparison: Have you ever done that middle school project in bio where u put 2 soda cans together with the one on the top having some grass and crickets in it and the one on the bottom has a water plant a guppy and a snail? If so the u created ( or attempted to) an ecosystem. That is what i meant.
 
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