I stoped for a while but found with a 45 gallon every two weeks I had less worry and less dosing. It's a hour of my time. Well worth the reward

I change around 40 gal every 2 weeks in my tank - overkill probably but it's easy maintaince and I feel is worth it

I have a tee hooked up to my closed loop pump so I run a hose outside and open the valve- watch tv for 5-8 min shut valve and plug in a mag 9 which is on my 55 gal mixing bucket watch more tv unplug pump and done
I made it simple so it wasn't a hassle to do so I would actually do it

Don't do water changes?
 

Who here is lazy with the water changes? I haven't done one in 3 months. The first month was just laziness but since there was no changes in my water quality (I still test, dose and top off daily) I decided to keep it going as a little lazy experiment. Upon searching the web, it appears I am far from alone. Many people go months...years..without doing a water changes.

Keep in mind, I have one fish in about 50 total gallons of water. I have a sump with more LR and macro algae and everything in my tank is pretty mature (rock is about 4 years old even though the tank relatively new). I have seen some posts, where people claim they have a much higher bioload and still maintain perfectly healthy SPS colonies with zero water changes for an extended period of time.

Who else does this?

Do we really need multiple threads going at the same time for the same discussion?

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=83653

My bad, didn't look before I posted. What are the odds.

Threads merged...

That explains some of my confusion :razz:

And the rest? :lol:

genetics...:)

If there is biological reactions inside that box that are transforming carbon dioxide back to oxygen with high efficiency you could be stuck in there for an extended period of time.