Can a tank be TOO clean?

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Miguel said:
Great system you must have :)
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I love the drip system, the only thing you have to do every now and then is to clean the filters and feed the fish :D You get spoiled.. I change water manually on 1 220l tank, but its nr 2 in a rack, and stays 30cm from the sink, takes me 10 minutes to change 50%. When i think about it, thats the 10 minutes i sit down and enjoy all the tanks.. To be honest, with 2 young kids, a big house that i constantly do some work on, i would never be able to even keep so much water without the drip.
 
Now that quality of water is out of discussion, isn't your ph a tad too high for rays?
 
Miguel said:
Now that quality of water is out of discussion, isn't your ph a tad too high for rays?
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7,6? I dont think so, imo its perfect.. Rays are very adjustable, people keep them in way higher ph. As long as its stable im happy. Discus is breeding, rays are breeding, cory cats are breeding, L`s are breeding, rotkeil`s are breeding. I think its good ;)
 
Far from me to say it is wrong, and i concurr that stability is key.

Just asked, not keeping rays, because in the wikd they live in way lower ph.

I must think on a drip system.....big house, six kids....and still carry my bucket :)
 
man if you kept that drip up at 50% you wouldn't even need a filter!
 
if your changing enough water through the drip that you can keep the fish happy with the drip alone then the filter obviously isnt doing much, so when the filter is needed or you increase the bioload its going to struggle to cope because its been doing nothing and have some sort of cycle to get it going and working again. imo
 
And what Pete said.. lol It's nice talking in this forum sometimes.. and I 100% agree.. if your dripping 10% a day.. if by some reason your water goes, or you have to shut it off ect you'de be good, might hit a mini cycle.. but you never "really" know how a system will react until you put it to teh test in these instances. BUt I'de be wayyy more comfortable w/ the 10% drip vs if you where doing 50% and something happened to your water source ect.

And I am one of those crazy people who keep their rays in 8.2PH KH and GH are both off the charts ( wasn't our house so couldn't hook up an RO system ect).. and I do water changes in response to my TDS not nitrates. My TDS rises faster then my nitrates do. My retics are thriving in it. I will be moving them hopefully by the end of the month into better perameters... but they've been fine for the past 2yrs in the 8's
 
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