testing your tank water is how to know for sure, especially if fish is still growing or you change up your feeds.
Do you think this is a big enough waterchange?
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Yes I was refering to cleaning the gravel. You say most say 10%... That's actually all I do. The key is to do it often enough to where you will not need to do a big change... Balancing out the waste/live bio ratio is the most important for the "quality" of your water. Lol as far as parameters... I don't worry about that as long as my buddies meet me at the glass for feeding 3 times a day.
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no problem, was just surprised to find the same post even here, slightly happy too,post wherever you like mate,
Cheers.
no problem, was just surprised to find the same post even here, slightly happy too,post wherever you like mate,
Cheers.
I only do 30 to 40% water changes on all my tanks weekly and it seems to work out fine for me...I think you should be ok as long as you do it weekly
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A couple things:
1. I'm a huge fan of water changes. IMO they are better for the overall health/color of a fish than what foods you feed. I do two 85% WCs on a 90gal holding a solo 5in trimac.
2. I can't tell from the pic, but is your heater positioned vertically or horizontally? If you turn it horizontally, you can drain the water farther down. It is also more efficient b/c it increases the surface area of the amount of water being heated.
1. I'm a huge fan of water changes. IMO they are better for the overall health/color of a fish than what foods you feed. I do two 85% WCs on a 90gal holding a solo 5in trimac.
2. I can't tell from the pic, but is your heater positioned vertically or horizontally? If you turn it horizontally, you can drain the water farther down. It is also more efficient b/c it increases the surface area of the amount of water being heated.
imo thats more than enough.i like doing a 20-25% water change/week.but it also depends on filtration and # of fish/how much you feed it
I am triple filtered in all my tanks and I still do 30 to 40 percent a week...none of my tanks are overstocked well sort of lol
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40% is alright. If I had your tank, I'd personally do 50% and gravel vac really well just because you can never really get the gravel to be 100% debris free. Then again, I'm a big fan of doing daily water changes(I have bare bottom tanks only). 15% everyday on my tanks except 50% on saturday.
To figure out how much water to change, you need to take a nitrate reading. Most aim for 20-40 ppm at the time of the water change. A 50% water change will drop nitrates by 50% assuming your tap has a 0 reading. If you have over 40 ppm when you do a water change, you need to do water changes more frequently or change more water at a time. The more water you change, the more nitrates you will remove. The more nitrates you remove, the better the color and growth of your fish will be. Some say that a fish's system associates low nitrates with a large, open body of water therefor stimulating growth. Whether this is true or not, I don't know. But, clean water is the key to a healthy fish.
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