Ozone, eliminating Water Changes?

pentrix2

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Would you say if you use Ozone correctly the water changes could be completely eliminated?

I read up on the benefits and who uses them. In using the Ozone in your tank along with corals, definitely making sure the calcium levels need to be stable.

I imagine the big public aquariums have made their tanks without the need to do water changes by using many different methods, such as the Ozone.

possible?
 
No, I would not conclude that. About all that you should think of ozone as accomplishing is making the water clearer (less yellow). It does that better than any other method or combination of methods, however.

I didn't alter my water changes when using ozone, and don't think ozone impacted most things that represent my rationale for water changes.

This is my rationale for water changes:

Water Changes in Reef Aquaria
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-10/rhf/index.php


from it:

Conclusion
Water changes are a good way to help control certain processes that serve to drive reef aquarium water away from its starting purity. Some things build up in certain situations (organics, certain metals, sodium, chloride, nitrate, phosphate, sulfate, etc.), and some things become depleted (calcium, magnesium, alkalinity, strontium, silica, etc.). Water changes can serve to help correct these imbalances, and in some cases may be the best way to deal with them. Water changes of 15-30% per month (whether carried out once a month, daily or continuously) have been shown in the graphs above to be useful in moderating the drift of these different seawater components from starting levels. For most reef aquaria, I recommend such changes as good aquarium husbandry. In general, the more the better, if carried out appropriately, and if the new salt water is of appropriate quality.


So with that as the rationale, the only one of those that ozone might impact is organics, and while ozone does a much better job of removing yellow compounds than does a water change, it doesn't remove residual and potentially toxic organics the way a water change will.
 
Thank you so much. I'm just start reading up on ozone and it's starting to look like I will be using this but want to understand it a lot more.

Pen
 
Would you say if you use Ozone correctly the water changes could be completely eliminated?

I read up on the benefits and who uses them. In using the Ozone in your tank along with corals, definitely making sure the calcium levels need to be stable.

I imagine the big public aquariums have made their tanks without the need to do water changes by using many different methods, such as the Ozone.

possible?

I know many on here know better then I do and this sounds funny but Dirty Jobs did an episode a little while back at a large public aquarium facility. One of his jobs was to clean out a very large concrete room they use for mixing salt water. Its also been said many times many of these places use regular Instant Ocean salt mix I assume purchasing extremely large quantities. So, from what I've seen they do water changes too. Even those aquariums that have been connected to the oceans are constantly changing out water.
 
I know many on here know better then I do and this sounds funny but Dirty Jobs did an episode a little while back at a large public aquarium facility. One of his jobs was to clean out a very large concrete room they use for mixing salt water. Its also been said many times many of these places use regular Instant Ocean salt mix I assume purchasing extremely large quantities. So, from what I've seen they do water changes too. Even those aquariums that have been connected to the oceans are constantly changing out water.

oh shoot, i missed that one. i will be looking for that one. :)
 
Please forgive the hijack/sidetrack but I'm wondering what benefits carbon provides that O3 doesn't cover. Perhaps it absorbs toxins produced by the corals (while O3 does not?)? Thanks for any insights!
 
You are asking about GAC, granular activated carbon? It exports many types of organics, while ozone modifies some of them (making them less likely to absorb visible light) but generally leaves them in the water. :)
 
So in that light. speaking on something related to ozone. Ive worked for a company called Ecoquest for several years. We sell air purification products that introduce ozone into the air as a way of purification. Do you think if this device if used in the same room as the aquarium that it could have any adverse affects on my tanks or inhabitants? I do notice that when I set the air purifier to "away mode" i notice my skimmer seems to "foam" a tad more... thanks sorry for the hacking of the thread! happy reefing!
 
It is probably similar to running a small amount of ozone into a skimmer. Whether that is a positive or a negative, I'm not sure. I'd look to see the response of the tank creatures on days you set it to away mode (when it presumably makes more). :)
 
If there is enough ozone in the air to effect a tank, I'd seriously question the wisdom of even being the same room with such an ozonizer.
 

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