How many times you do a w/ c in one month

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F1 VET said:
Glad you realized. Some of the worlds most exotic and beautiful fish are on mfk, that alone should tell you something! A lot of these world class rays, discus and cichlids are on drips, which is constant fresh treated water, low n03+good diet and lots of space equals stunners.



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I agree with everything you just said... But, like I said everybody does everything different. The OP of the actual question never went into detail of his tap water, pH conditions, nitrates, nitrites, etc. Doing water changes everyday could be very harmful to your fish, if you're not doing it right!

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There is a lot of teenies on here, that think they know everything! Other people just have to sift through the information and figure out through common sense what is knowledgeable or not!

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I'm a "teenie" so i suppose i know everything

Depending on the tank and motivation i do 40-70% WC up to 4 times a week. Water goes through an RO system, mineral replacement, and is temperature matched before adding. In a percect world i would run a drip system but i have no time nor effort. Other times I'm lazy, but my tank has pothos a large sump and additional filtration and a light stock

Keep in mind some discus breeders in asia drain the tank so low the disus lay flat on the bottom before they refill

In all my personal experiece i have never had a wc related death... Or any death of a significant fish in years (i don't have many though)
 
I'm a "teenie" so i suppose i know everything

Depending on the tank and motivation i do 40-70% WC up to 4 times a week. Water goes through an RO system, mineral replacement, and is temperature matched before adding. In a percect world i would run a drip system but i have no time nor effort. Other times I'm lazy, but my tank has pothos a large sump and additional filtration and a light stock

Keep in mind some discus breeders in asia drain the tank so low the disus lay flat on the bottom before they refill

In all my personal experiece i have never had a wc related death... Or any death of a significant fish in years (i don't have many though)
 
I usually do 85-90% water changes on all my tanks....once or twice a week, more often for juvenile fish that must be fed heavily. Eventually I'll get a drip system up on some of these tanks.

I don't see any benefit to doing small water changes instead, never have. As long as your tapwater remains fairly consistent from day to day it's not going to stress them, unless you're waiting a long time and letting your water parameters get completely out of whack before doing a very large change. As far as stress from the water levels dropping, if you do it often fish quickly get used to it, and many enjoy it and play in the new water coming from the hose. It's when you do large changes erratically that they're not expecting it and get stressed.
 
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