Beverly,
I agree with you 100%. I asked "Why do we do water chages?" a while back and they said to replenish your elements that your animals use up. Well if it isn't to remove deitrus (The sand bed should never be vacuumed) Then I am going to try with the old leave it alone method. My mineral replacement is very minimal for those three months as all I add back into the system is what is leaked out of the system in the form of salt creep. Very little, but still something. (I actually encourage salt creep) Now my setup is only going on 9 months, but I have never had anything die (Except a fish and overflow problem) Oh and of course a BTA I put in way to early. My soft corals get fragged quite often, snails reproduce like mad, and only recently had an issue with a Frogspawn coral. So other LPS are doing awesome.
I guess we find out in a few more years, how my experiment actually hold up.
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