Large water changes without cycling

[Ruth]

In my 2 unskimmed Nano's I do 50-75% water changes once a week with no problems.

[Beverly]

Clean the living heck out of the media in your Fluval at least once a week in outgoing changewater to remove all the crud. Siphoning the crushed coral while doing the water change will also help. Large water changes are fine, but try to match pH and temp between the new and old water so the livestock isn't shocked.

[Skimmerking]

I would take the floss out of the fluval and fill it with rubble and carbon. then you will not hav eanother problem , well shouldnt. THe CC in the tank I would loose it and do a finer sand to help out with the nitrates.

hope that helps.

[Luke]

Hey,

Thanks all for the suggestions; I both cleaned out the filter and vaccuumed the substrate during a water change. Things appear to be relatively back to normal.

Luke