Honestly fish come from clean water. If your water is clean and you are adding clean water to your tank and the temp is the same you are fine. If there was a diff between things like ammonia, nitrate, ph ect of the water in your tank and the water coming into it I can see where stress would come from but water is water.
Is this too much water??
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I used to change at least 50% a week. Sometimes, up to 75%. My fish are fine, healthy, and happy.
i do either 25 percent a week or 50 percent every other week. just cuz of pure laziness......
but i do know a very reputable vendor on this forum that i saw with my own eyes do about a 90 percent WC. just enough for the fish to stand upright at the very bottom of the tank. and he says there fine. and from what i see they are perfectly fine and healthy. but i dont know if its recommended.
but i do know a very reputable vendor on this forum that i saw with my own eyes do about a 90 percent WC. just enough for the fish to stand upright at the very bottom of the tank. and he says there fine. and from what i see they are perfectly fine and healthy. but i dont know if its recommended.
i have a 210 and have changed 50% as much as 3 or 4 times a day to cloudy water..... i would still wait several hours between....if your tank is dirty enough it can probably handle it....i usually dont try to do more than two a day for the fishes sake!
Run an airstone in it. My 20g barrel is Cl2 free after 4-6 hours (depends on the initial Cl2 level). My 30g barrel is Cl2 free after about 6-10 hours.vaine111;2899898; said:
Get a cheap swimming pool test kit and test the chlorine prior to using the water. The kit will say that you need to use five drops for the chlorine but you only need one drop (do it both ways using the same water to verify this (this works with OTO kits but not DPD kits)). DPD kits have red Cl2 reagents and are used to separately test for free chlorine (hypochlorous acid) and chloramines. OTO kits have yellow reagents for chlorine. They test for total chlorine (free chlorine and chloramines). If there are chloramines in the water, they will still show up on the OTO test kit after the water has aged for a day. You can use the OTO kit for a far less than accurate test for chloramines. Just let the test sit for 30 seconds to a minute. If the color develops more than the initial reading, it is a good sign of chloramines.
cool thanks. so i dont have to wait days thats pretty cool. still i see the more water i use the longer the wait. but maybe i'll just fill the 29g and use that for the water changes daily. sounds like a better plan.
That was one hell of a piss.vaine111;2899908; said:yeah he's an ass. i just traded him a 65 hex for my 75g and a 40 gallon tall which i broke the 40gallon tall that night going to take a piss at 4am when i woke up the following day(turn the lights on). he has one of my oscars and a jag in the hex. he's an ass.
Patch up the 40g and use it as a sump for the 75g. That still sounds like a good deal even if the 40 is a sump. (It will be one bad ass sump.)
