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Poll Question: How often do you do a W/C
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    Posted: April 22 2016 at 3:29pm

Here is a little background and the reason I thought this might be a fun discussion. My wife claims that I have a terrible habit of procrastination. On the other hand, I see it as a good trait that I try not to get worried about much. Yesterday I finally got around to doing an oil change on our old car. It had been since last July and our 2001 Mitsubishi had been driven 10,300 miles. Smile Of course I had been adding oil. It would be foolish not to check the dipstick and keep the oil pan full. I googled the question about oil changes and found that 7,500 miles between oil changes is not so unusual and 15,000 miles is okay for some cars. Motor oils and engine lubrication systems are better than they used to be, but the myth of the 3000 mile oil change persists.

So what about water changes. Can we separate fact from myth? Give us your vote and share your opinion.

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Mark  Hug

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Though here on the forum, I always recommend 10% monthly water changes, personally I often put it off for a couple months or more and even then can only bring myself to change out 15 or 20%. Wacko I voted <15% every 3-5 months because that's about where it is right now for my ~70 gal system with Algae, soft coral and LPS coral, dosed fairly heavily every 1-2 weeks to bring Alk, Ca and Mg back up into range. Smile



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Some tanks quarterly, some tanks never.

Car oil, every 5000. But I'll bet every 10,000 is perfectly fine.

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I do a 27 gallon waterchange every week.  I would guess that my total  water volume would be close to 300 gallons considering the sand, coral and rock displacement.   So not quite 10% a week.  Reason being, I have, and always will have a lot of fish, which in turn, produces a lot of waste. And I feed very heavily.  Even though I have other measures in place to counter act this, I just think overall my coral and tank looks much better when I do it weekly. I tried every other week and that turns into every 3 or 4 weeks. I don't like that at all, so I do every saturday/waterchange.

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Let's also see your tanks.
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Small tank.  Maybe 33 gal of water (34 gal tank +sump).  I change 5 gallons/week.  That's about 15% weekly.

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Pics of Adams ~250 gal from last year, assuming he doesn't mind that I post them:




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I was changing 20% or so every week but lately I have been lazy and it gets 20% about every 2-4 weeks
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Adam you should post current pics of your tank! We've already had this conversation but figured I'd try;) He says if I want to see pics of his tank I'm more than welcome to come take some:)
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Jackie and I were thinking of Adam at about the same moment.

Pics of my best/favorite tanks that got about 10% W/C every 1-2 months:





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I like that it's very natural looking!
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My most recent FTS from a few weeks ago:
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I'm at around 10% weekly on both systems. On my frag tank not nearly as often. I want to keep a ton of bacteria in the tank for when large shipments come in. Balancing alk and calcium are easy- figuring out if I can handle a biolad is very hard for me.
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I rarely take pics of my tank, mainly because I can't get photos to show how nice it is. But again you're welcome to anytime. Thanks for those photos Mark.

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Just for you Jackie...



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Butterflies and angels!  That's just crazy. haha   
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I change about a gallon and a half a day, or rather my Dos does for me. Works out to about 25% a month
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I'm Probably the extreme when it comes to changing water. 30-50 gallons every Sunday. I tried every 2 weeks but just felt Wrong so i went back to weekly.
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I think the saying goes? No better solution than  dilution. Correct me if i'm wrong..

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This looks awesome Adam! After seeing the ones MArk posted of your tank I really contemplated getting another tank just to do all softies mostly just leathers as I love the look!

Originally posted by Adam Blundell Adam Blundell wrote:

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