I found the cure for water changes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was doing a water change on my 31g and i was taking out 5g anyways i had to go out anyways i did not care to finish the water change, I just turned on the filter and pumps and left it. Today i tested the water it had 12.5ppm nitrate and i don't know why but i tested the water from yesterday and it had 0ppm so i added it to my tank and im going to keep doing that everyday from now on.

 

i'm not sure that i understand. are you saying that you removed water from your tank, filtered it and then returned it to your tank?

 

That's what I'm wondering too. The main point behind water changes is to replenish the trace elements so by putting back in old filtered water, you're not adding any of those essential elements.

 

Here is some counter conventional wisdom logic....

I will say that I don't do water changes at all... ever. If my water parameters are all good, then the water quality is good. The question then becomes trace elements. Water changes replace trace elements. Thus, I tend to wet-skim a bit to generate more skimmate than usual. Skimmate does gradually reduce SG, thus I add fresh salt back to keep my salinity at 1.025.

I know that is "not the norm", but everything seems to be working well.

M

 

Im not filtering anything im just letting the water sit open. I will still do water changes but not once a week like before and you can always supplement the water and it bets mixing water and the price of salt.

 

I thought of doing this before too; boy, was I knocked down... lol

http://www.3reef.com/forums/bucket/recycle-your-used-tank-water-91328.html

 

I don't understand what it is you're doing then.

Water is cheap. Salt is fairly inexpensive too.

 

I cost me 34c per gallon and i do 10gallon a week. Thats 13.60 a month and thats 163.20$ a year and that means it would give my about 150$ extra to spend on fish or corals.

 

You buying form the LFS?At that price you could look into a 3 stage RODI.

 

No i get free RO water. Thats the price of salt per gallon.