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02-18-2008, 11:46 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Detroit, Michigan
Posts: 428
|  water change questions
ok, im not so sure if this is the best thing to do or not but here gos (dont get mad at me) my tanks literally evaporate a couple of gallons every week. on my 120 i ad about 2-5 gallons of fresh (unsalted) water every week and about 2 gallons to the 55. the salinity is always the same (as salt doesnt evaporate) and my levels are always really good. is this bad for the tanks?? should i actually change the water more or aslong as my levels are good is this a fine routine???
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120g, 3 niger triggers, 2 tomato's, 2 puffers, 2 anglers,
eel, lrg black lion
5g, 4 baby black ociis, haitian, rock and bubble tip anemone, frogspawn, hammers, candycanes, blue ricordia, zenia, leather, plate coral, peppermint shrimp, yellow jawfish, porcelain anemone crab, lrg ass. bristle worms | 
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02-18-2008, 11:50 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Im sorry but I didnt understand the Q. Was there a Q to begin with? _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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02-18-2008, 11:55 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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the question is at the end of the post, is this ok to do or should i change the water more??? | |
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02-18-2008, 11:59 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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I think I understand you ,
the question was can you just add your top-off water and get away without doing your water changes right???
If so the answer is unless you have a filtration setup that will remove the dertris from your tank
I would be encourageing you to do some 10% water changes every 2-3 weeks
this should keep the nitrates under control as I think you have a F/O tank right?
and in the 120g you also have some big waste makers ie snowflake eel. _________ 
55gl skimmerless, 80lbs live rock, DIY wavemaker running 3x MJ1200 with hydor deflector.
2 DIY fluidized reactors Carbon & ROWAphos
LIghts- 2x 50/50 atinics T10's , 2x life gro T10's ,
1x20,000K T12, 1x6,000K T10.
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02-18-2008, 12:01 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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yeah, FOWLR in both tanks, and the eel is still just a baby, but i will do that. all my levels stay really good and all the fish are very active and feed great. | |
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02-18-2008, 12:03 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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I personally do a 10% water change in all of our tanks on a weekly basis.  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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02-18-2008, 12:07 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Im sorry but I didnt understand your Q.In my exp.you can get away with it as long as you dont have a big bio load. But I wouldnt take the chance. I do what you do and 25g water changes weekly only b/c I have a big bio load. I also use R/O water in between WC. | |
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02-18-2008, 12:09 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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As stated above, topping off evaporated water and doing water changes are two different things done for entirely different reasons.
My 120 evaps about 5 gal. every three days.
Of course this is replaced with fresh water.
I do a 20-30% water change/exchange (newly mixed salt water) every other Sunday in the 120g. And a 30-40% water change in 12 gal Nano weekly. (I don't have a skimmer in Nano.) Often when being really lazy, I use water from main tank to do water change in Nano as the Main has much more LR and a skimmer to boot and water params almost always stable.
Check out: Water Changes/Exchanges,, By Anthony Calfo _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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02-18-2008, 12:38 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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thats a goos article, thanks | |
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02-18-2008, 01:20 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Humboldt SD Age: 22
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im pretty sure the water company loves all you guys lol!!! but anyways i add about 1.5 gallons ro water weekly to my 10gal tank and im still gonna start doing bi-weekly water changes | |
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