I don’t see how you can do too big of a water change.
Cloudy/Dusty water bad for fish?
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Oh okay.If I may offer some advice it is best not to remove the fish from the water if you do not absolutely have to.You can syphon the water damned near down to the tops of their backs and just pour in the new water.
Leaving the fish in the tank is bit less hassle for you and lot less stressful to your fish.
Oh okay.If I may offer some advice it is best not to remove the fish from their tank during water changes if you do not absolutely have to.You can syphon the water damned near down to the tops of their backs and just pour in the new water.
Leaving the fish in the tank is a bit less hassle for you and a whole lot less stressful to your fish.
Appreciated, though the fish I’m keeping in this tank are fisher’s woodcats, which freak out whenever I put my hand in the tank or get the water down to their backs. That can be very dangerous for the fish because they could crash into the pipes and walls in the aquarium.
This is bad advice, if you keep big messy fish then 25% is far from adequate and 50% is too alot of the time.
As long as you stick to it the fin level WC schedule is best. ( I say stick to it because not doing a WC for a month then doing 80% could shock your fish due to the massive change in water quality)
It will keep your water as close to your taps nitrate level as possible, as long as you dose for chlorine correctly it can only benefit your fish unless we are talking about very delicate fish like discus and apistogramma (in which case you should be very advanced in the hobby and know what your doing anyway).
Read up on nitrate creep, it will shock you how much nitrate can rise above your tap water at 25% wc over 10 water changes just due to the fact your only diluting the current nitrates and not removing enough.
You need to know what the people are keeping and the tank size before you make such a brash statement.
I had the same problem right after mid terms haha... I did a 60% then 25 the next two days.
Hello; Interesting in that the OP appears to have combined two fish keeping errors, maybe even three, into one episode.
First is going a longer than normal amount of time without a WC and the second is doing a very large WC first time back.
Not getting around to a regular WC can happen for several reasons. I suppose the build up of "stuff" in the closed system and a potential for a slight pH swing being the greater issue with a lack of WC or even too small series of WC over time.
It is my understanding the better way is to do a series of progressively larger WC when we have fallen behind. Say 20-30% for two times , then 40-50% a couple of times and so on until the biggest normal WC is back on track. Not so much a particular formula, just that after a long time without a WC do not do one big one.
I guess the third might be that some how catching and rehousing fish twice is considered less stressful than a fin level WC. I got the bump into things part, just do not quite buy it.
WC continue to be among the more controversial topics of these threads.
First is going a longer than normal amount of time without a WC and the second is doing a very large WC first time back.
Not getting around to a regular WC can happen for several reasons. I suppose the build up of "stuff" in the closed system and a potential for a slight pH swing being the greater issue with a lack of WC or even too small series of WC over time.
It is my understanding the better way is to do a series of progressively larger WC when we have fallen behind. Say 20-30% for two times , then 40-50% a couple of times and so on until the biggest normal WC is back on track. Not so much a particular formula, just that after a long time without a WC do not do one big one.
I guess the third might be that some how catching and rehousing fish twice is considered less stressful than a fin level WC. I got the bump into things part, just do not quite buy it.
WC continue to be among the more controversial topics of these threads.
You “don’t quite buy it”? Have you ever kept this fish before? Because if you have, you know how skittish they can be. My dad tried doing a fin level WC before and they all just ended up with bloody ripped fins.
