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
Status
Not open for further replies.
Fishfriend1 said:
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 pion, 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.
Click to expand...

I think you need a refresher on what an ecosystem is...
 
Creating the illusion of an ecosystem and actually having a self maintaining ecosystem are two completely different things.
 
You know what i just realized. This thread is about an argument over water changes that started in a thread about freshwater stingrays. Funny where this stuff takes you lol.
 
This thread is starting to crack me up. In an IDEAL situation, yes, you could create a closed ecosystem in a tank where you would only have to top off the tank from evaporation and not do any water changes.

HOWEVER, 95% plus of people on this forum own tanks than don't have the necessary set up to create this ideal situation and, thus, must do regular water changes to control nitrate levels for healthy fish.
 
thorpbrian
you beat me to it
 
Fishfriend1 said:
You know what i just realized. This thread is about an argument over water changes that started in a thread about freshwater stingrays. Funny where this stuff takes you lol.
Click to expand...

....in a thread about freshwater stingrays that was 4 years old and resurrected from the dead.
 
and thats what this thread is supposed to be about
 
pinkertd said:
....in a thread about freshwater stingrays that was 4 years old and resurrected from the dead.
Click to expand...

that was a different thread...
 
thorpbrian said:
This thread is starting to crack me up. In an IDEAL situation, yes, you could create a closed ecosystem in a tank where you would only have to top off the tank from evaporation and not do any water changes.

HOWEVER, 95% plus of people on this forum own tanks than don't have the necessary set up to create this ideal situation and, thus, must do regular water changes to control nitrate levels for healthy fish.
Click to expand...

more like 99.99%
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
AquariaCentral.com
Top Bottom