Water changes

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by lockrookie

i go through 5 g every 3 days on both tanks you mh may have helped with that evap hopefully the led's will help slow that down for you.. or you have a slow leak

i would guess alot of it has to do with being a 8ft tank and a fair amount of flow. thats alot of water to have to add daily i would def look into hrv for the house

300g a month in evaporation

[Aquaria]

Originally Posted by lockrookie

i go through 5 g every 3 days on both tanks you mh may have helped with that evap hopefully the led's will help slow that down for you.. or you have a slow leak

Omg he said the L word how dare he

[Aquaria]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Does 10 gal's of ATO a day count on a 230 gal total system with a salinity of 1.020 count as WC?

Holy crappy grizzly lol another reason I don't want a large tank haha

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by Aquaria

Holy crappy grizzly lol another reason I don't want a large tank haha

It's very dry here this year. The house is really bad I need to install a furnace humidifier.

[Aquaria]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

"Dilution is the solution to pollution"

I'll be the first to agree you don't have to overdo waterchanges but at the same time all you have to do is a water change and look at your tank before and after to convince you a waterchange does your tank some good. It's like opening a window and letting fresh air in.

+1 I see it after every w/c

[ReefOcean]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

"Dilution is the solution to pollution"

I'll be the first to agree you don't have to overdo waterchanges but at the same time all you have to do is a water change and look at your tank before and after to convince you a waterchange does your tank some good. It's like opening a window and letting fresh air in.

Delphinus, don't get me wrong, I completely agree. I am not against water changes in fact I see some tanks that have a bioload which screams weekly water changes. In a system where bio-waste is kept at a low, water changes can become substantially less frequent to a a point where...cough...months are acceptable. Now people here can cling to minute trace elements all they want (most of whom don't even have a clue on what any of them do) and argue semantics but I think I made my case, even with the trolls coming in here to derail the thread.

Keep bioload low, run excessive mechanical filtration, dose and monitor. Simple.

And sorry Sphelps if I was being a douche, I felt douchery coming from you so I countered. No hard feelings.