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.

The Guy · #7 12-13-2015, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by WarDog

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

I was doing every 2 weeks and have changed to once a monthish mainly because I'm lazy and my tank seems to be surviving and doing fine.

FishyFishy! · #8 12-12-2015, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

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..

Totally! the last time I did a water change, my frag tank looked like a bomb went off when I turned my returns back on lol.

This is why I automated mine as much as possible. Just mix salt, go upstairs and flick some switches... 40 gallon water change in 5 minutes :-)

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #9 12-12-2015, 10:14 PM

Was going to do one this weekend but now with work and a big windstorm on the way, I'm postponing till Monday or Tuesday.

Myka · #10 12-15-2015, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by daplatapus

Nope, that one has the built in metering device. This is the one I have:

http://www.lockewell.com/index.php?m...roducts_id=161

So does one pump out while the other pumps in?

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