Water change

Dearth · #1 12-12-2015, 02:27 PM

Well it's been 41 days since my last water change (yea purists hate me) I finally did a 15% change this morning and it never ceases to amaze at what comes out of the woodwork to feed on the resultant floaties from said water change.

Saw literally hundreds of brittle star arms pop out of very nook and cranny in the rock work including at least a 7 inch brittle star. Three I believe porcelain crabs showed up that I didn't even know I had that we're having a field day chasing detritus around and maybe most surprising of all baby shrimp (Durban ridge back) came out of the rocks en masse (free fish food)

I hope I never get tired of being surprised

don.ald · #2 12-12-2015, 02:48 PM

Cleaned my sump last week, and was surprised how large those brittle stars get.

spit.fire · #3 12-12-2015, 02:51 PM

Did my 4th water change this week, there's a lot of mysis shrimp in my system

kien · #4 12-12-2015, 05:19 PM

It always amazes me what crud gets blown out of my returns every time I shut them down and restart them for a water change. That does remind me, I should do one of those this weekend..

WarDog · #5 12-12-2015, 05:26 PM

I'm actually considering REDUCING my w/c's to once a month. Doing 25% every two weeks currently.

kien · #6 12-12-2015, 05:36 PM

Right now I'm doing once a month. Not exactly deliberately. I'm just lazy. And busy. Two terrible combinations for reefing actually. That's why I run a prayer reactor.

Dearth · #7 12-12-2015, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kien

Right now I'm doing once a month. Not exactly deliberately. I'm just lazy. And busy. Two terrible combinations for reefing actually. That's why I run a prayer reactor.

I freely admit I'm lazy that s why so long between water changes its usually when I feel like doing it