Am I Crazy or Could This Possibly Work? - Goodbye Water Changes
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I never said nitrates are the issue right now, but they may be in the future. Currently I do have time for water changes, I do at least two 80% water changes weekly and the nitrates are fine. They never pass 20 between water changes.
Recently found my self in a similar boat to you, due to working away and new family commitments I am finding spare time to sort my tank out harder to come by. Originally I was going to do a sump with a drip system but the layout of my house would make this a pita, I briefly looked at some of the options you have mentioned but came to the conclusion that it's going to empty my wallet, I'll spend more time testing and monitoring then what I spend now doing waterchanges, my wife keeps an eye on the tank when I am away, if it's to complicated when something goes wrong she won't be able to rectify it.
My solution was to give away my stock, sell off my fx5's, and buy two hmf filter blocks, two tunze ejet powerheads, and start planning a low tech planted south American biotope, with a very light bio load, the biggest fish being about 3 inch in a 215 gal tank. It won't stop the need for waterchanges but hopefully my precious spare time won't be dictated by 80% changes religiously.
My solution was to give away my stock, sell off my fx5's, and buy two hmf filter blocks, two tunze ejet powerheads, and start planning a low tech planted south American biotope, with a very light bio load, the biggest fish being about 3 inch in a 215 gal tank. It won't stop the need for waterchanges but hopefully my precious spare time won't be dictated by 80% changes religiously.
I will do once it's up and running, only got it emptied yesterday and I need to redo the stand and paint the wall behind it before I start.
Money isn't an issue. In fact I want to buy and experiment around with the equipment, but the point of the thread was if I should. I was hoping everyone would give input on how well it would work, not complain about how there are cheaper ways to do it.
I have no idea where you that get from. Excluding your own posts, almost no one has mentioned cost, money or doing something cheaper. I found 4 posts out of 66 that related to the cost of the project, and at least 2 cases that wasn't even the main point of the post.
And you've been given a ton of feedback on your project as far as why it might not work, what else it might need and how people might make changes to improve it.
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What I see is looking for the most expensive and overly complicated way to fix something so simple. If it ain't broken don't fix it....
Most of us have not used these types of equipment because they are are to expensive and there is no need to use it.
We are not complaining we are giving you better options because you will not be there to look after this tank personally and if your dad thinks dehumidifier water is good for water changes do you really want him tinkering with this equipment if anything goes wrong? Eliminating water changes will not happen
We are not complaining we are giving you better options because you will not be there to look after this tank personally and if your dad thinks dehumidifier water is good for water changes do you really want him tinkering with this equipment if anything goes wrong? Eliminating water changes will not happen
