50% water change

[guppy breeder]

just wondering if it was good or bad but i wanted to know yall oppion

[dr_sudz]

its good if you keep up a regular routine of water changes weekly, they are not good if you do this once a month or every few months.

[guppy breeder]

i try to do it weekly on my 10 gallon guppie tank

[hayden]

i havent cleaned my 10 gallon in a few weeks it so under stocked the parameters stay the same for up to a month because i only have a cherry barb. i think im going to build a 10 gallon sump for it.

[softturtle]

I won't even do a w/c less than 50%. Just do them often and watch your tank/new water temps.

[Mystus Redtail]

I try to do a ~50% water change each week. But never less than a 30%.

[guppy breeder]

ok thanks yall but i have a problem here lately my filter has been over flowin at the water intake tube where u can adjust the water flow and i dont know what to do about it any of yall have any sugestions

[ammerman19]

that means your filter pads are clogged and need washed. The overflow is to stop to much pressure from being placed on the pump. Gives it an easy path to go through instead of making it work harder to go through the filter material.

[WyldFya]

I do 50 and sometimes 75% water changes on my tanks.

[guppy breeder]

ok so just wash my filter pad off

[ammerman19]

yes in drained tank water so you do not kill the benificial bacteria with chlorinated water

[guppy breeder]

opps i did it in a mix of tank water and tap water

[ewurm]

EEZ GOOOOOD, EEEZ VERY GOOOOOD!

[mike dunagan]

they are good, but since my fish are still small I only do 30

[rallysman]

test your water and see if it's necessary.

[guppy breeder]

well i just got done doing them

[LiuHsi]

I do 50% twice a week

[guppy breeder]

i need to buy a test kit

[toehead11183]

i would do 2-25% WC. smaller WCs more ofter are better

[ercnan]

Yep weekly 50's here as well.
Alternate the filters though.
This week, the ac's only, and next week, the cans. only, and so on.

[smmfish]

I do a 75% w/c on my Oscar tank twice a week, and then a 50% w/c once a week on my community tank.

[guppy breeder]

the only filters i have are hob's

[Newt]

I never change less than 50%, except on my planted tank.

[StingrayFanatic]

I do 50% w/c every 5 days!

[SkidMark]

i do 50% water change once a week consistent

[Wolf3101]

I must be in the minority here...I test regularly and have multi-filter systems and have no problem at all maintaining stability with 25% water changes every other week. To me... the added stress on the fish, especially my aro, isn't worth the dubious benifits of larger, more frequant, water changes.

PS. This is the way I've been doing it for 30 years or so and I've yet to have any water quality issues.

[benzjamin13]

I do 50% water changes at least once every 2 weeks.

[rallysman]

I must be in the minority here...I test regularly and have multi-filter systems and have no problem at all maintaining stability with 25% water changes every other week. To me... the added stress on the fish, especially my aro, isn't worth the dubious benifits of larger, more frequant, water changes.

PS. This is the way I've been doing it for 30 years or so and I've yet to have any water quality issues.

maybe you and I think alike. If a small one gets the job done, why waste time and water with huge changes?

They make test kits for a reason:)

[Bsixxx]

i go back and forword ahaha

one month all i will do is tops 30% everyday or other then the next month do a 10-15% every day or other and then at the end of the week do a really big like 65-70% waterchange
:D

ahah

[ewurm]

I do 50% on large tanks weekly, 50% on small tanks weekly or bi-weekly, depending on need.

[12 Volt Man]

I change 1/3 every week, sometimes 40% in my "monsterfish" tanks.

but I never really get it down to 50%.

[JonF]

I must be in the minority here...I test regularly and have multi-filter systems and have no problem at all maintaining stability with 25% water changes every other week.

Me as well... about 25% every two weeks with very good results. My tanks are very lighly stocked (about 0.5" per gallon) and very over filtered (20x per hour... probably more like 10x with full media).

- Jonathan

[Morledzep]

The only time i would do a 50% water change is if there was a water quality problem that i water change could fix. After we found out that it was our tap water that was causing the ammonia spikes, we went to RO water purchased from the local H2o store, and we don't have ammonia spikes now.

we found that our 100 gal had water stability issues because of very low PH and no buffering capabilities.. so we added crushed coral to bring up the PH and that problem is now solved too.

And like my hubby said already, 25% changes every other week keeps the nitrates in check and the fish don't stress so much..

[Mystix212]

I never do more than 40%. I usually do 25%-ish but perform them more frequently than once a week.

[Mystix212]

A lot depends on the stocking and filtration. Of course if you have barely any fish and high filtration, small water changes are fine. But vice versa, and you need a lot more effot.