Unnecessary arbitrary water changes?

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spiff;1896424;1896424 said:
So... no one does this based on monitoring then...? I guess I'll use my goldfish as guinea pigs then and see how much time needs to pass to get nitrates up to a worthy 40PPM for the water change.
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I'd say the majority of the people here dont test their water regularly. i only tested my water while i was cycling the tank and havent tested ever since. we rely on lots of bio filtration and large regular water changes to keep the water pristine. afterall, when a tank has been established, ammonia and nitrites should ALWAYS be 0. and nitrates are kept in check by the frequent water changes so testing the water regularly is never an issue
 
Holy cow! Every other day? That sounds excessive....
 
I would do water changes every day if i was home every day. my fish dont seem to mind.
i want the water quality to be as good as possible, why would i wait until the nitirite reaches detrimental levels?
 
Fishes poop. Poop goes on the sand. I don't like poop on the sand. I vacuum it out once a week and doing so removes 40% of the water. I guess that's a WC. :D
 
spiff;1896475; said:
Holy cow! Every other day? That sounds excessive....
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why is that excessive? maybe its the differnce between you keeping goldfish and others keeping wild caught fish or other fish that require constant care. they have essentially endless waterchanges in their natural habitats....

what is your opinion of constant drip systems? are they excessive as well.
 
what is your opinion of constant drip systems? are they excessive as well.

if i had a handy guy around the house i would do this set up for.
 
You guys make it sound like my tank is a cesspool when they are as clean as can be. There is never an accumulation of any solid waste. Maybe you feed your fish too much.

I do think that's excessive because its probably unnessessary. I do think it more likely that its a person's over attention to their hobby than a case of finding it to be a requirement. If it is a requirement, then as a fish enthusiast you must admit something is wrong with the setup to require that. Either its massively overstocked or something...

I have a drip system on my other tank. We're talking about manual water changes here... but yeah, the same rules apply. I'm thinking about tappering down the drip factor based on readings... but only after I used my goldfish as a test first. My 2000 gallon is massively understocked.
 
On my 150 I was doing a W/C once a week just because of evaporation (I didnt feel like just topping off) but now I have a wet/dry with a big sump on my 220 I will be once every 2 weeks since it will take a lot longer to do lol
 
I test my water as a tank is cycling, and after that only if I think there is a problem with the water.

Otherwise I do 1x 50% WC a week unless I'm power feeding a fish, in this case I'm power feeding my wolf fish so he gets 2x 50% WC a week.

I doubt my tanks need that much as they are under stocked but at the same time I'm sure they won't mind having fresh water ;)
 
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