WATER CHANGES: How much/often?

[froggyman]

if you are having problems with fin rot then you are doing something very wrong... water changes should not have anything to do with finrot.

i suggest getting some test kits and testing your water.

no i HAD problems with finrot but did the more frequnt when the had finrot(usally after they are first bought.

 

[guppy]

I have made a habit of 25% changes per week but once had a 150 that didn't get a water change for almost five years. It was to perfect to mess with and supplied enough plants and paired angels to trade for most of the food for my other tanks

 

[PeacockBass]

and NO DITRIUS or you will have a nitrate producing factory! )

what do you mean?

 

[CentralMayhem]

**** i got to the end of the 1st page and seen there were 6 so i said screw it. more is better. a klot of serious people change all water every day. i do 75% weekly(most the time) and the bacteria isnt in the water people. bad stuff is in water get rid of it and your fish will thrive, leave it in and it builds up. and this is monster fishkeepers, you have to change water with monsters. how many monsters you keep in you reef tanks. hence fewer water changes.

 

[pufferking]

on my big tank 25% everyother day and pretty much the same for the other tanks

 

[Jay R.]

what do you mean?

not sure Exactly what the question is, so don't take offense to the answer, don't think you an idiot, just want to cover the two things i think you might mean

1.) ditrius - this is used to describe all waste from fish to fish foods. (honestly i have not seen it as a vocab word, so im not positive, but thats always how it's used.....

2.) when all of the above, fish food and fish wates get caught in a place where they cannot be removed. bacteria will feast on it and overproduce nitrates to the point where dailiy water changes are needed for the fish to survive.

 

[PeacockBass]

not sure Exactly what the question is, so don't take offense to the answer, don't think you an idiot, just want to cover the two things i think you might mean

1.) ditrius - this is used to describe all waste from fish to fish foods. (honestly i have not seen it as a vocab word, so im not positive, but thats always how it's used.....

2.) when all of the above, fish food and fish wates get caught in a place where they cannot be removed. bacteria will feast on it and overproduce nitrates to the point where dailiy water changes are needed for the fish to survive.

1) detritus is usually refered to as "useless matter" which has no biological properties and cannot be broken down by bacteria.


2) this depends souly on the volume of water and the bioload present.

 

[fishing4exotics]

Detritus is fish S H I T! Bacteria does breakdown the poop. The kind of bacteria that breaks down detritus will compete for surface area and o2 with bacteria that breakdown Ammonia into Nitrite and also those bacteria that breaks down nitrite into nitrate. It is best to take out the ditritus with the water so your filter can work more effectively.

 

[PeacockBass]

Detritus is fish S H I T! Bacteria does breakdown the poop. The kind of bacteria that breaks down detritus will compete for surface area and o2 with bacteria that breakdown Ammonia into Nitrite and also those bacteria that breaks down nitrite into nitrate. It is best to take out the ditritus with the water so your filter can work more effectively.

incorrect. Heterotrophic bacteria do not compete with Nitrifying bacteria for surface area.

also, the correct definition for Detritus is - Disintegrated or eroded matter.

 

[guppy]

Yup, detritus can be both organic or inorganic and even poetic, as in "the detritus of broken dreams", but for aquarium keepers it usually refers to orgonic by-products like food waste, feces and plant debris, ie "some snails are detritus eaters" So much for your word for today. Your word for tommorrow class, is "gleet" and you will be expected to use it in a sentence.