Am I working too hard?

[esoxlucius]

Here’s a very late update to my post, but when I posted this I was doing my WCs using a bucket, i since got a water changer and that has totally eliminated days like this lol why did I wait so long

It's no wonder you were questioning whether you were putting too much work in. Doing water changes with BUCKETS!!, on all your tanks!! Wow. Even more credit to you for being able to keep your parameters in check. Most people would have let their schedule slip.

And yeah, lol, why did you wait so long to get a better and easier way to do water changes, and on so many tanks?

 

[Joshuakahan]

It's no wonder you were questioning whether you were putting too much work in. Doing water changes with BUCKETS!!, on all your tanks!! Wow. Even more credit to you for being able to keep your parameters in check. Most people would have let their schedule slip.

And yeah, lol, why did you wait so long to get a better and easier way to do water changes, and on so many tanks?

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Haha, i don’t know, I’d used buckets all my life and never really thought about it.

 

[twentyleagues]

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Haha, i don’t know, I’d used buckets all my life and never really thought about it.

Yeah but once you don't use buckets and have to go back to it. No bueno!

 

[Joshuakahan]

To me a 50% water change is not much effort, I tend to do a 30-40% water change every other day on heavily stocked tanks, and considered that normal.
All your fish at this point are relatively small so your current regime may work for a while, but as the fish grow, it would seem to me your water change schedule and volume may need to be up graded..
Although filtration may help, it really does nothing to reduce nitrate, so as soon as you see nitrate rise, if numbers start to creep above 10 ppm, or you see pH numbers fluctuate a point (ex a drop of 7.5 to 6.5) or more between water changes, I believe it will be time to consider a twice per week 50% schedule as being more adequate.

Since I got the python water changer, I’ve been doing 50% every 4 days. When I posted this I was using buckets. That thing has changed my life lol

 

[Joshuakahan]

Yeah but once you don't use buckets and have to go back to it. No bueno!

I will never go back to buckets after spoiling myself with the python, unless I get back into reef keeping

 

[twentyleagues]

I will never go back to buckets after spoiling myself with the python, unless I get back into reef keeping

Try being able to turn a valve and drain your system capacity 75% and refill with another valve. Then I moved. Right now I back to mostly buckets and it's terrible. I'm working on it though.

 

[Joshuakahan]

Try being able to turn a valve and drain your system capacity 75% and refill with another valve. Then I moved. Right now I back to mostly buckets and it's terrible. I'm working on it though.

Damn, the first part sounds awesome and the second part sounds like a nightmare