badbread
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My corals and tank have never looked better!
In my 28 gallon tank, due partly to laziness, lots of work, and not being home much I haven't changed the water for at least a month and probably longer. I usually changed once a week, sometimes every two weeks.
I've been testing calc, alk, and nitrates a couple times a week trying to nail my 2 part dosing down to which I am getting really close. Nitrates still aren't detected with my test kit, I guess the bio-load is really low seeing that I only have a clownfish and 6-line in there. My lime in the sky acro, shades of fall mille, and monti's are looking the best they have ever looked. Actually all of the corals in the tank are looking great. Nothing else has changed, feeding 3 times a week, dosing amino acids 3 times a week, nothing else different.
So questions...
1. I was always taught/told/read on forums that in nano tanks water changes are the key to success. Did I understand wrong or is this a fluke, or whatever works works Jay.
2. I think on bigger tanks water changes are done what... Every month or so? Maybe that explains why growth has been so slow in my tanks when I was water changing every week? And why I look at other peoples big tanks and their growth is at light speed compared to my tanks.
3. I started thinking about that gentleman who presented at BAYMAC, with his tanks that he never did a water change in. I remember him saying that when you do a water change you shock your tank, especially in a small nano tank. I was skeptical at first, but now I'm rethinking that.
Thoughts, beliefs, facts, random scribbles?
In my 28 gallon tank, due partly to laziness, lots of work, and not being home much I haven't changed the water for at least a month and probably longer. I usually changed once a week, sometimes every two weeks.
I've been testing calc, alk, and nitrates a couple times a week trying to nail my 2 part dosing down to which I am getting really close. Nitrates still aren't detected with my test kit, I guess the bio-load is really low seeing that I only have a clownfish and 6-line in there. My lime in the sky acro, shades of fall mille, and monti's are looking the best they have ever looked. Actually all of the corals in the tank are looking great. Nothing else has changed, feeding 3 times a week, dosing amino acids 3 times a week, nothing else different.
So questions...
1. I was always taught/told/read on forums that in nano tanks water changes are the key to success. Did I understand wrong or is this a fluke, or whatever works works Jay.
2. I think on bigger tanks water changes are done what... Every month or so? Maybe that explains why growth has been so slow in my tanks when I was water changing every week? And why I look at other peoples big tanks and their growth is at light speed compared to my tanks.
3. I started thinking about that gentleman who presented at BAYMAC, with his tanks that he never did a water change in. I remember him saying that when you do a water change you shock your tank, especially in a small nano tank. I was skeptical at first, but now I'm rethinking that.
Thoughts, beliefs, facts, random scribbles?
