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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pH drops do not kill fish because of the low pH in and of itself, unless the drop is down to <4 at which point Na+ uptake is inhibited. I have to say I've never seen a tank crash down to that sort of level, even when KH became undetectable. I don't think this is a major issue,.
 
new tag alert. did anyone notice this one?

"is soap really needed"

i'm going to lose my lunch and my coffee through my nose if they get any funnier...
 
dundadundun said:
new tag alert. did anyone notice this one?

"is soap really needed"

i'm going to lose my lunch and my coffee through my nose if they get any funnier...
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LOL... I like: "I like it dirty" :lipssealedsmilie:
 
kazvorpal said:
1. I am citing nature's filtration technology, really. A deep sand bed, ceramic foam, mud filter, et cetera all come closer to simulating the way the world maintains its bodies of water.
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Weird! I had not realised that the billions of litres of water in the worlds seas and oceans stood completely still in 100 litre "boxes". Thanks for the heads up on your "simulator"
 
kazvorpal said:
No, ammonia does not build up. In fact, most tanks will NEVER see an accumulation of ammonia, once the normal biological cycle has been established.

It is "inhumane" to leave fish swimming in what you imagine to be their own waste, only insofar as you are errantly anthropomorphizing the fish. Many of them live, more or less specifically, in almost nothing but waste, in the wild. That is largely what the muck at the bottom of a pond or river is comprised of. .
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No, sir, they do not. Because those bodies of water are HUGE in comparison to the number of fish in them, and mostly feature currents of moving water (and lots of it). Your comparison is wrong and ridiculous. You are trolling.
 
Indeed. If you were to scale an aquarium w/fish to the Earth's size, just imagine how ridiculously gargantuan in size the fish would be.
 
Slappy*McFish said:
Indeed. If you were to scale an aquarium w/fish to the Earth's size, just imagine how ridiculously gargantuan in size the fish would be.
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And imagine how population dense it would be too.
 
this is why

hi

i just finish reading one of my tropical fish hobbyist magazines were there he explains why here its

http://www.tfhdigital.com/tfh/200911/?pg=89&pm=2&u1=friend

short story is the only way of removing the accumulated pollution in the aquarium is to physically removed it.
i hope every ones reads this article it validates what i done from the beginning of my love affair with fishes wich is almost 90% water changes every week.if you're changing water why only 20% any way i hope every one read this great article bye
 
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