Excessive water changes, harmful?

[Wulfonce]

I was wondering if it would be harmful in anyway to do daily 1/3rd water changes on my 125g Oscar tank. I planned to use the water to water flower beds out side. The tank has 3 oscars around 8", and a school of about 25 freshwater minnows between 1-3" (no they don't get eaten). So would constant water changes be harmful?

 

[B2L]

If water chem and temp are the same should do nothing but help. Discus keepers do this all the time.

 

[Jc1119]

As long as it doesn't stress the fish, the more the better I say. Plenty of folks around here have continous drip systems setup and don't ever do weekly water changes. They are in effect, changing water all the time. Keep the stress low and eliminate the chlorine/chloramine from the equation and you should be fine.

 

[BlackShark11k]

Not harmful in any way.

 

[Bderick67]

If water chem and temp are the same should do nothing but help. Discus keepers do this all the time.

Yes and some of them will even go with 90-95% W/Cs

 

[smitty03281964]

Actually it is a good thing considering the amount you are changing.

 

[J.Lake]

I agree that is a reallt good wc sched for oscars. They tend to be a lil pigish

 

[West1]

I say as long as your water is conditioned you can change it as much as you want

 

[qwik48r]

i change mine every other day... LMB and grass pickeral

 

[qwik48r]

ill add to that... many times I have cured sick fish of parasites, bacterial infection etc by simply changing the water "excessively"... IE I used NO meds...