continous water change

[ckoral]

Does anyone do continous water changes? I was thinking about using an aquamedic for this. I would of course continue to do major waterchanges where I clean the sandbed mulm and detritus.

stupid idea? Waist of money? Good idea? Modifications, or suggestions?


con's -
-expensive dosing pump (i don't care, its a one time purchase)
-using more salt makeup water (its only 50 bucks for 200 gallons, why not)
-unless I vaccume the sand bed using a seperate waterchange, the system will get a lot of mulm/detritus buildup


pros-
-never lag on water changes
-not one big hit of fresh salt water at one time, trickles continous instead!
-the solution to polution is dolution!!
-looks cool and complicated

 

[fantastic4]

Interesting, following thread as well. Seems like a winning idea

 

[ckoral]

I just bumped into a Randy Holmes-farley article on reefkeeping.com that talks about this a little.
link ya: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-10/rhf/index.php

I know those aquamedic's are expensive, but it is a one time expense. Then if I do a .5 gal water change it would only be a bucket of salt a year. On top of this, I am still going to do detritus/mulm bed cleanings.

I did not get time to read this article fully, but Randy always provides us reefers with a good read!

 

[NoSchwag]

I say it's a great idea.

I do a consant waterchange with my becket skimmer. I can set it to .5 or 5 gallons a day, very stable.

Right now I'm skimming .5 a day.

 

[ckoral]

great idea, so you over skim and it gets rid of some of the protein saturated water. How do you know how much to replace? Is it automated?

 

[NoSchwag]

Not only the protein saturated water, but the way it's set up, it removes particles from my tank. You can't even tell there's water in there.

Once I fill up my 3 gallon bucket, I wash it out, then dump 3 gallons back into the tank.