Water Changes
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Personally and with EBJD experience, water changes are damn overrated and unnecessary.
I was doing a small change every 2 days, about one big bucket. Once i ended up doing 2 and the sobs got restless and stopped eating. I waited 2 days and all back to normal. I have not done a water change since then and all is well.
I had 40 fish in a 30 gallon, have not changed any water in weeks. My Demasoni and jewels spawned. Water was good nuf for breeding.
My take is if you have enough filters they will keep the water good. But if you have alot of stock and weak filtration i do see the upside of constant water changes.
I was doing a small change every 2 days, about one big bucket. Once i ended up doing 2 and the sobs got restless and stopped eating. I waited 2 days and all back to normal. I have not done a water change since then and all is well.
I had 40 fish in a 30 gallon, have not changed any water in weeks. My Demasoni and jewels spawned. Water was good nuf for breeding.
My take is if you have enough filters they will keep the water good. But if you have alot of stock and weak filtration i do see the upside of constant water changes.
No and no. Your rising TDS will shorten your fish's lives severely and you tank is already too unstable to handle a normal water change. You'll have to do several small gradual changes to prepare your tank for normal maintenance again without crashing the system. Water changes = healthy stability and increased resilience to disaster. By stopping your water change program you have lit the fuse on a rather impressive biological time bomb.
knifegill;4375579; said:
You'd think so but i tested my theory on the overstocked smaller tank with out a big kaboom. If the water was bad fish wold not be breeding would they ? healthy stability was some how achieved.
So whats the chance of that time bomb happening on a 75 gal with 10 fish on it. Not much id say. And my EBJD have shown not to like new water to much. nitrites are non existent i check every week.
I change 40-60% twice a week in my 55g that's temporarily overstocked.
Water change = good. pH and temp need to be very close original and new water.
No water change = early fish death.
Water change = good. pH and temp need to be very close original and new water.
No water change = early fish death.
They might breed for awhile, but not long. Much of the trouble with early fishkeepers was the thinking that aged water was necessary and best. But as your nitrAtes rocket past the 100ppm mark and on up through the 200ppm mark, you'll notice your fish stop growing or breeding. You are wrong to think everything is okay. You are setting yourself up for catastrophe. Your pH is dropping, dropping fast and your TDS is rising very quickly putting osmotic stress on your fish. Their kidneys will eventually give up and you'll try to help them with a big water change. As the new water raises the pH and lowers the osmotic tension, their bodies will undergo horrid experiences not unlike the bends.
