"Water Changes"

Zenz said:
Wow Draal! Do your hands look like prunes? :lol:
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No but I do feel like the who makes the donuts some times.( I have 11 tanks with 3 more to setup :rant2: dam you petco and your $1 per gallon sale)

pythons are a wonderful thing
 
I try really hard to do a water change every week. Sometimes I have to stop what is going on in my weekend & make it a scheduled thing at a scheduled time, so that it will be done,...& THAT (weekly) is what I shoot for.

I agree with what's been already listed as to what a "water change" is & involves.

Now as far as how much I take from the tank, i'd be irresponsible to tell you to take 50% out of every tank & with all fish. I have frontosa that are VERY sensitive to "massive" water changes & their tanks are solidly on the 20 % side of the equation (or even less than that, sometimes more than once a week.)

Some fish respond very badly to 50 % water changes.

gjx
 
Yep what they said, I average about 25% weekly water change, with gravel vac, and always use a declor. I use an aqualife one that i find pretty good. I can smell the chlorine in my water when im just running the tap.
 
Rudmin said:
So, would I use a gravel vac on my sand substrate? I think I have sand substrate...
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Your best bet is to stir up the top layers of sand and then vac, Just not too much to make that just added cloud lol. this way your not sucking out half your substrate. I do this in my fry tank and my community. The other tank with sand has gravel on top.
 
i do a 50% daily changes on my tanks but as i only have a 55, 2x20s and a 5 i find it relaxing hence why i do them everynight
 
i do 30 to 50% every 2 weeks top it off when it gets a little down , mya tap water is clear no ammonia no clorine, or if there is i cant find any
 
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