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Originally Posted by Seriak
BTW, my poilcy is leave well enough alone. I haven't done a water change in over 3 months and my tank blossoms everyday. I am overdue for one now. But I believe that 15-20% every 3 months is fine. Assuming your parameters are holding stable.
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Let me tell you right off that I'm not trying to flame you, but I'd like to offer an opinion. Okay?
There are many parameters that we don't typically test for such as calcium, magnesium, phosphate, silicates, and a whole whack of trace elements. The only way to make sure these are replenished is with frequent and regular water changes, imo. That's why I do weekly 10-15% water changes. I guess I'm a follower of the "a little at a time but on a timely basis" sort of thinker when it comes to w/c because there's no way in h*ll I'm going to be doing all that testing all the time. It's just way easier to change some water once a week than to test for all that stuff in the three very different tanks we have.
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Originally Posted by Seriak
So treat you tank as you will and hopefully it works for you.
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Yup. Good point. Everyone does things differently because we all have very different and unique reef setups.
Take care, and I hope you don't take my remarks as a flame, but as one opinion among many.