Water Change Poll

[Ne0eN]

I've always been curious how often ppl do a routine water change. I'll start...

 

My 60g reef:

just did my first water change in over 6 months - 10%

 

My gf's 260g reef:

monthly - 20-25%

 

Conclusion - I'm the lazy one! :o

 

-Rob

[Guest Keyoke]

I've always been curious how often ppl do a routine water change.  I'll start...

 

My 70g reef:

just did my first water change in over 6 months - 10%

 

My gf's 260g reef:

monthly - 20-25% 

 

Conclusion - I'm the lazy one!  :o

 

-Rob

47522[/snapback]

 

 

Your lazy? HAH!

 

90g Reef + 20G Long sump

1 yr old

NEVER done a water change.. not even after the cycle.. Mostly it's because I use distilled water in my tank, as I lack an RO/DI... I just add makeup w/ kalk and salt (rarely, just to handle creep) as needed...

[miller]

my system is about 200gl or total volume and i do about 20 gallon a week

[Guest alex wlazlak]

i used to never do water changes for about a year cause id always make things die. now ive been doing them everyother week. everything has been going good when i change and if im not messy, it can take LESS than 10 minutes .

[DEEPBLUE]

I have a 240 and I do about 40 gals about every 2 months, but add about 10 every two weeks for evaporation

 

Eric

[rocko918]

75 gallon - 5 gallons once a month

 

12 nano- 2 gallons once a month

[Herbert]

20% every 2 weeks in my 20

Edited December 15, 2005 by Herbert

[Guest oracleoca]

10% every 2 weeks in a 55 gallon

[stank]

55 gals every two weeks on my 360.

[HowardofNOVA]

Current Setup:

75g Display Tank with 120# plus of LR probably holding about 60-65g of actual water.

29g Sump holding about 20-22g of water with baffles

20g Frag tank holding about 15g of water

Total about 100g of water being displaced.

 

I drain 5-6g per week out either the front of the tank or out of the sump when destrius builds up in sump.

 

Replace with 6g bucket of pre-mixed salt water that I made 2-3 days old minimum that I pump with a MJ1200 pump 225gph pump back into sump.

 

Evaporation is replaced daily (about 1-2g per day) into sump.

 

Actually voted at 10%, but with my figures, should have voted at 20%!!!

Howard

[Caribbean Jake]

10% every two weeks on both my tanks, 55G & 125G

[rioreef]

I try to do 10g on my 90g with a 29g sump, total actual water volume just above 100g, so in all 10% every three weeks.

 

I then take some of the main display water I took out and do a water change in the 10g hospital tank with 2 chromis as permenant residents.

 

CR

[Lee Stearns]

5 gallons every weekend on a total volume of about 150 G = 3.3 percent

but that ends up being more than 13 percent a month.

The 5 gallon volume is not that strange -it is the size of my salt bucket that I add a bit of ro/di water to all during the week- I keep a heater and little powerhead running in it all the time.

Rotate my used water to my 54g corner tank and the used form that out the door to keep the weeds down along the fence. :D

[ErikS]

About 5% a week, give or take.

[Guest Larry-T]

I'm doing a 10% water change on my two 30s at least every week.

[dbartco]

One 33 gallon trashcan every 2 weeks on approx 300 gals total water volume.

[Caribbean Jake]

Actually voted at 10%, but with my figures, should have voted at 20%!!!

Howard

47552[/snapback]

We understand Howard. Don't have too many fingers to count to 20. :D

[ireland]

10% water change every week.

[mogurnda]

10 gallons every 2 weeks on the 90 reef.

6 gallons every week on the 30 seagrass.

[gastone]

Give or take I do about 5% per week.