Daily water changes vs bi-weekly water changes

[b-ridge]

It's called reef alchemy by randy Holmes Farley. It was a article in reef keeping online magazine for the reef enthusiasts

 

[prattreef]

It's called reef alchemy by randy Holmes Farley. It was a article in reef keeping online magazine for the reef enthusiasts

Thanks.

 

[arnaldolex]

honestly it sounds like way to much work for me i wouldnt be enjoying this hobbie for so many years if it was some much work i got a 180 do a 40 gallon water change once a month and thats good enough for me and i keep alot of sps and softys and zoas and over 40 fish and feed heavy. I once went 9 months without a water change just regular filtration and my tank was at its best everything was growing so fast and looked so healthy even my polyps got huge

 

[kres1024]

honestly it sounds like way to much work for me i wouldnt be enjoying this hobbie for so many years if it was some much work i got a 180 do a 40 gallon water change once a month and thats good enough for me and i keep alot of sps and softys and zoas and over 40 fish and feed heavy. I once went 9 months without a water change just regular filtration and my tank was at its best everything was growing so fast and looked so healthy even my polyps got huge

+1
Monthly water changes are good enough!

 

[kres1024]

And I'm mostly sps

 

[b-ridge]

You guys doing monthly water changes what are your dosing schedules? No way possible with sps your Maintaining all trace elements.

 

[kres1024]

You guys doing monthly water changes what are your dosing schedules? No way possible with sps your Maintaining all trace elements.

Hell yea it possible, have a doser doing calcium and alk, mag I dose manually when I see a need and done .. Like that for 8 years and it's full blown sps ,and not the every day comon stuff either !

 

[samksy]

And I'm mostly sps

Nice tank Kres! What percent water change do you do monthly? Just curious, what salt u using?

 

[kres1024]

Esv,and I'm doing around 40-50 gallons out of a 250 total water volume tank,
You got to come by one day with Richie

 

[b-ridge]

@kres
Your tank is awesome looking bro. One day I hope to get to half the level your at. Eventhough I'm not into sps I can't wait for the day I get a couple nice birdnest mini colonies and some caps. Only sps I really like. Oh yeah and pocillopora

 

[kres1024]

@kres
Your tank is awesome looking bro. One day I hope to get to half the level your at. Eventhough I'm not into sps I can't wait for the day I get a couple nice birdnest mini colonies and some caps. Only sps I really like. Oh yeah and pocillopora

Thanks buddy, this hobby you also need to have a lot patience with, the only downside..lol

 

[b-ridge]

I'm a married man so trust me I know all about patience. Not to mention the 3 rug rats

 

[samksy]

Esv,and I'm doing around 40-50 gallons out of a 250 total water volume tank,
You got to come by one day with Richie

Would love to check out your tank, just waiting for your invitation...hahhaha! Btw, how's Jackson's Special doing in your tank? Do you get the crazy color that Rich gets?

I'm doing a 40g monthly out of 200G ish....debating if I should do 20g every week if the benefits are there.

 

[salpet]

i personally think that weekly changes are a lot less stressful for all your habitants and a lot more stable

 

[kres1024]

Would love to check out your tank, just waiting for your invitation...hahhaha! Btw, how's Jackson's Special doing in your tank? Do you get the crazy color that Rich gets?

I'm doing a 40g monthly out of 200G ish....debating if I should do 20g every week if the benefits are there.

Yea jacksons coral is doing great turned more red,
I didn't see any benefits when I was doing weekly water changes ,now monthly I see better colors and growth

 

[Dan_P]

Dan is there a article you can link me to that you got those charts from. Thanks.

I made the plots in Excel. Happy to send you the spreadsheet. PM me and we can figure out how to send it. It seems we can only attach pictures to posts.

My inspiration for the calculation was this Holmes-Farey article

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-10/rhf/index.php

 

[lnevo]

I did not read through this whole thread but if you read more of RHF you will see that you cannot keep up with calcium and alk consumption through water changes. Even continuous water changes. What a continuous water change is going to do is provide a constant export of nutrient and trace element buildup from dosing. The only way to keep things stable is to take things slowly and monitor/test often so you know what your tank is doing and the result of the things you do like dosing or other additives.

 

[Cu455]

I made the plots in Excel. Happy to send you the spreadsheet. PM me and we can figure out how to send it. It seems we can only attach pictures to posts.

My inspiration for the calculation was this Holmes-Farey article

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-10/rhf/index.php

Thanks. No need for the spread sheets. You did a awesome job on the charts. I just wanted to read the analysis and information behind the charts.

 

[Jlavine]

Cool thread: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2113252

 

[JuanSalgado]

honestly it sounds like way to much work for me i wouldnt be enjoying this hobbie for so many years if it was some much work i got a 180 do a 40 gallon water change once a month and thats good enough for me and i keep alot of sps and softys and zoas and over 40 fish and feed heavy. I once went 9 months without a water change just regular filtration and my tank was at its best everything was growing so fast and looked so healthy even my polyps got huge

I Agree. I Seen His Tank Personally & How Many Fish He Has In His Tank & The Tank Is Amazing. The Corals Are Awesome.