OoooDRAGONoooo
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Hi,why do water changes IF , All, your parameters are well within safe boundaries.would regular top offs not be sufficient?
WHY do water changes?
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danil
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First WC has nothing to do with top offs. Second it's up to your system setup how often you have to do WC. Think about newly setup tank as 'balanced' system. With every single day this balanced get shifted. So to restore this original balance we do WC. You can increase time between them applying sophisticated filtering system (to export unwanted materials) and adding all sort of supplements (to keep level of depleted elements) but it's much easier and cheaper do few WC.
And you can't measure all parameters... there are hundreds of them. We just test for some most critical one. So you can't rely on this measurements. Check the forum for posts where people having all sort of issues with their tanks though all parameters are "in check".
And you can't measure all parameters... there are hundreds of them. We just test for some most critical one. So you can't rely on this measurements. Check the forum for posts where people having all sort of issues with their tanks though all parameters are "in check".
OoooDRAGONoooo
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If your checks for ,calcium,magnesium ,ammonia ,nitrate,nitrite,phosphates,ph,kh,salinity,temp,etc etc are ok ,and have no signs of increase/decrease.why change any of the water?
OoooDRAGONoooo
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Ok.ty.
lonzoencho
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Strontium is depleted quickly if I recall correctly and it is not usually measured/dosed. It occurs in pretty high concentrations (300-500 ppm) I believe, so not really a trace element. Also the critical parameters don't always accurately reflect the amount of Organics in the tank.
I do them so I don't have to measure for any of those items (except salinity) and also so I don't have to make any adjustments. Weekly water changes take care of those items and more that likely cannot be measured.
Answer is easy. What evaporates? Water. ONLY water. The minerals stay behind. And if they're not the right minerals and nothing uses them---they stay forever. And build up and up and up.
The Dead Sea is the ultimate example of water that's just evaporated and evaporated with no outlet to flush the excess minerals out.
The Dead Sea is the ultimate example of water that's just evaporated and evaporated with no outlet to flush the excess minerals out.
shesacharmer
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Ugh...the Dead Sea...terrifying words...so afraid that will end up in my dining room one day! Just do water changes for goodness sakes!
phillrodrigo
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I guess if you like keeping poo as a pet you can not change water but I prefer not to. Lol
