How Often do you water change>?
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I base my water changes on the situation but generally most of my tanks receive 25% weekly. If I am interested in changing more water than that in a 7 day period, I will do 15 - 25% 2 - 3 times a week. If I can avoid it, I never change more than 25% of the water. Large water changes in excess of 30% all at once are bad practice for a variety of reasons. I always clean the gravel thoroughly when I do my changes which I personally believe is critical to keeping water quality high and the tank looking great.
I try to be as environmentally friendly as I can with my fish so the less water I waste the better. Unlike filtration, with water changes there is such a thing as overkill and it can be detrimental to your fish. I believe that once your tank is stocked as it should be you can use water tests to determine how often to do your changes. I keep close to a thousand fish and the only deaths in the past year have been due to one fish jumping out of a tank over night and another that got tangled up in some java moss somehow and suffocated. My fish breed, eat and grow quickly so I think I'm doing things right.
I try to be as environmentally friendly as I can with my fish so the less water I waste the better. Unlike filtration, with water changes there is such a thing as overkill and it can be detrimental to your fish. I believe that once your tank is stocked as it should be you can use water tests to determine how often to do your changes. I keep close to a thousand fish and the only deaths in the past year have been due to one fish jumping out of a tank over night and another that got tangled up in some java moss somehow and suffocated. My fish breed, eat and grow quickly so I think I'm doing things right.
at least 30% weekly but if i have fed a lot of protien, like when i had my saum and was using crickets a lot, then 50% or 2 x 30% weekly.
No time to do 20-30% two to three times a week so I just do 50% once a week. Sometimes I do 75% if I got the time. I just try to keep the new water @ 80F by mixing heated water so that there less temperature variations.
You should test the water first and then shock us with the results.steverothery;1961108; said:
I do 30% a week via an automatic water changer.
up to 75%...I vac the bottom throughly, scrape down the sides...as much as it takes over 30%, weekly.
I haven't seen a fish that didn't like a waterchange...
I haven't seen a fish that didn't like a waterchange...
Rofl Bigspiz you have no idea what you're talking about. I dont own a single guppy, but thanks for trying. I honestly have no idea why you seek out my posts to harass me like this constantly but I would wager any amount of money that am a more accomplished fish keeper than you spizz. Maybe because I don't spend my life on this message board accumulating almost 6000 posts? And what exactly do you mean by explain constant drip? Maybe you don't know how it works?
You honestly need to find a life and stop trying to prove yourself to whomever you think cares about what you have to say. Not to mention the fact that the size of the fish you're keeping has little to do with how difficult the fish are to keep. Larger fish need larger tanks but that hardly makes them more advanced or expert fish although I imagine you think that keeping an oscar or an arro makes you a fish keeping wizard.. rofl.
Of course, you are as ignorant about me as you are about fish keeping obviously because I keep fish from just about every genera of species known to the hobby. My smallest fish are celestial pearl danios, my largest, paratilapia bleekeri. I think you ought to put the money where your mouth is or push off.
P.S. the non-guppy you see in my display picture.. that's my fish *gasp*.
You honestly need to find a life and stop trying to prove yourself to whomever you think cares about what you have to say. Not to mention the fact that the size of the fish you're keeping has little to do with how difficult the fish are to keep. Larger fish need larger tanks but that hardly makes them more advanced or expert fish although I imagine you think that keeping an oscar or an arro makes you a fish keeping wizard.. rofl.
Of course, you are as ignorant about me as you are about fish keeping obviously because I keep fish from just about every genera of species known to the hobby. My smallest fish are celestial pearl danios, my largest, paratilapia bleekeri. I think you ought to put the money where your mouth is or push off.
P.S. the non-guppy you see in my display picture.. that's my fish *gasp*.
Alistriwen;1963189; said:
Your sig used to have your tank sizes...Thats all
and I see the number is the same but your gallons went up...I could not care less about your life....I asked a question
....I had a differing opinion about 7 months ago with you about how rude you were.....Nice to see you again
Your post was narrow minded...I never questioned your experience, nor did I challenge you in any way...The fact that you are SO threatened by me confuses me....You have the nerve to say you are willing to wager against my knowledge...do you know me? Am I missing something? WTH are you talking about? Do you have an anger problem? That would explain a lot....I am a nice guy and maybe one of the most helpful people here...In your whole trashy rant, you never addressed my questions....I'll make it easy...Name some reasons changing more than 30% of your water is bad....
Better?