29 Gal. tank stability

Was woundering from all of the smaller tank people if a smaller tank is harder to keep stable than a larger one IF you were to do a water change once a week or once every 2 weeks??

 

Thats just it. You have to do water changes a little more frequently. I think the main reason smaller tank are harder is because bad things happen a lot faster.

 

Either way hombre, Smaller tanks are less forgiving...when something goes south, they go south FAST!!! I speak from experience!! But keeping up with your water changes and monitoring your params help a ton, they let you know when something is wrong...and the faster you act, the less damage is done! You just gotta keep everything in check more strictly with a smaller tank. JMO

 

Smaller tanks are less forgiving. I have a Red Sea max and don't do water changes. I have a good skimmer, p04 reactor, a denitrate coil for additional biological filtering and I haven't had any problems since. Those and some chemi-pure elite and some decent mechanical filtering does the job.

 

Just like everytone said... A swing in parameters will be a heavier % change overall in a small tank than a big tank. It's like dropping half a cup of blue dye in a 200G tank vs a 10G tank, you will see a heavier change in color in the 10G tank than the 200G. A safer analogy is water evaporation, you will see a heavier spike in SG over a week with 10G than the 200G when water evaporates (assuming you don't top off).
I do bi-weekly 4G water changes in my 20G tank and things are good. *knock on wood*