Water changes

[Nano]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

Me too. I just use cheato. Corals great

yeah but the clams are looking ticked. chaeto removes phosphates and nitrates etc. but your corals are removing a lot of the calcium and what not, so doing WC is essential. I am running chaeto in my new tank, but still do a weekly WC only about 10% but its enough to keep everything in check.

[Lampshade]

I didn't do any for a year, everything was doing great. Undetectable nitrates and phosphates <0.05ppm. I started doing them after I had a crash from carbon, still can't get my nitrates <10ppm. Here's a pic of my tank just before the crash: