How much % water change do you do a week?

[jfingers8]

Just trying to see what other people other there do.

[iap]

20%

[theaquareef]

20% every other week

[mike_cmu04]

20% roughly in a 12 gallon sps dominated nano

[reefsahoy]

approx 15% every other week or sometimes once a month on mainly sps tank

[reef_doug]

5% weekly (10g on 200g volume)

[T-Boner]

I do 25 gal a week water change. I have a 180 gal dt plumbed out to the garage to a 100 gal rubbermaid with a 65 gal frag tank tied in too

[buy_baff]

12 gal on a 90gal DT with a 40gal sump filled to 30 gal so aproximately 10%

[saltyliving]

20% every other week

[bluerexy]

10% every week-ish

[JAustin]

8% every two weeks

[sanababit]

0% per week or month, maybe 1% a year if i feel like it

[Toadally]

10%

[reeferx2]

~10% a week.

[Dyraxe]

10% weekly is what I try to do, 20% Bi-weekly if I am busy or 30% plus a month if I am a total bum.

[Scuba Steve]

5 gallons a week on 100gal w/30gal sump.
5 gallons a week on 35gal hex w/20gal sump.

[plyle02]

5 gallons on a 70 gallon tank with 10 more gallons in the sump here...
about 7%

[thebanker]

<5 gallons / month that is a result of cleaning out my canister and media reactor, not an intentional water change.

I'm in Sanababit's club. haha

[bolo7735]

20% bi weekly for a 220 gallon SPS

[jjsan]

i try to do 10% change every week. my corals like the new water after the change.

[offroadodge]

I have a total water volume of approx. 130G of actual water. I change 10G/every 2wks. Used to change 20G/once a month.

[Semillon]

10% every week.

[LifeAquatic]

10% a week

[soulsigma]

I have a 75 gallon DT, with 20 gallon sump/fuge for a total water volume of 95gallons and I do 10% weekly wc,

[mayjong]

10% a week.
missed this week, though...

[SnookSlayer08]

5 gal a week on 40brd with 20long sump

[dan223]

0% per week or month, maybe 1% a year if i feel like it

Sounds nice, any pics of the results? It would be nice not dumping all that salt down the drain.
I do about 20g on a 90g total system 1 per month.

[thebanker]

sanababit's tank is awesome. And no water changes... freaking incredible. Check out his post in another thread:http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1885414

From that post:

i have an all t5 lit without zeovit, probidio, no water changes, temp swinging, calcium reactor, phosban, carbon, cheap skimmer, algae scrubbing, tank, here it is

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z196/sanababit/001-3.jpg

Sana

[808Rob]

0% per week or month, maybe 1% a year if i feel like it
what's your secret?
Inquiring minds want to know?

[Christian_S]

I been seeing this tank in person and he's tank is awesome.

Sanababit use algae Scrubber in he's tank,I think that's he's secret.

he's nitrates are always 0ppm with out doing any water change in the tank,may be unbelievable but that's the truth

he's tank is very simple in equipment, nothing fancy or crazy, except for the vortech's

maybe he can tell us more details about he's tank


Christian

[stephenrsaiz]

20% every two to three weeks. Every four weeks if I'm lazy.

[ms123]

5 gallons on 90 gallon tank with 20 gallon fuge.

[TheDean]

I been seeing this tank in person and he's tank is awesome.

Sanababit use algae Scrubber in he's tank,I think that's he's secret.

he's nitrates are always 0ppm with out doing any water change in the tank,may be unbelievable but that's the truth

he's tank is very simple in equipment, nothing fancy or crazy, except for the vortech's

maybe he can tell us more details about he's tank


Christian
Sanababit is Neptune in disguise. tricky reefer you are oh king of the ocean... :D

[thebanker]

It really is a testament to how awesome ATS systems can be.

Sana what's your evaporation like? Also is there a noticeable smell from the ATS?

[josee1013]

weekly: 10%
every 3 months: 30%

tread about our 30% WC:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1879232

[Christian_S]

Sanababit is Neptune in disguise. tricky reefer you are oh king of the ocean... :D

Lol

he's tank is 3 years old already and he's been doing this almost since the start,I'm not recommended to people to stop doing water change in tank that always been doing water changes or so, because this will cause a unbalance in the tank.


Christian

[Christian_S]

there's not smell in he's ATS and may be also on non of them


here is some pics of he's ATS

I bring this pics with out authorization, I hope he don't mind :D:D:D



http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z196/sanababit/002-3.jpg
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z196/sanababit/004-3.jpghttp://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z196/sanababit/005-6.jpghttp://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z196/sanababit/019.jpghttp://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z196/sanababit/023-1.jpg

[dixiedog]

I do a 15% change every Sunday morning, right after testing parameters.

[Robert Patterso]

0% per week or month, maybe 1% a year if i feel like it

Go figure, and his tank is amazing!

[Robert Patterso]

I am definetly building an ATS, hope to have it done this weekend? made a believer in me.

[808Rob]

I been seeing this tank in person and he's tank is awesome.

Sanababit use algae Scrubber in he's tank,I think that's he's secret.

he's nitrates are always 0ppm with out doing any water change in the tank,may be unbelievable but that's the truth

he's tank is very simple in equipment, nothing fancy or crazy, except for the vortech's

maybe he can tell us more details about he's tank


Christian
What's an algae scrubber?

[Robert Patterso]

Q: What are algae scrubbers?
A: Algae scrubbers are not brushes! Scrubbers are devices which use light and flowing water to remove the "bad" things (nutrients) from aquarium water, while leaving the "good" things (food, nutrition) in. Unlike the scrapers/scrubbers that you use to clean your glass, an algae scrubber does not physically clean anything. Instead, the "scrubbing" is when the "dirty" water passes through an algae scrubber, and then the "clean" water comes out. The water is thus "scrubbed" clean of nutrients (nutrients are “bad”, but nutrition is good).

[kev apsley]

I no longer do weekly wc's since I feel that doing 20% every 2 weeks is just as beneficial and less stressful on my tank than doinng weekly wc's

[twinypalm]

0% per week or month, maybe 1% a year if i feel like it

How is your tank doing? I hate to do water changes too.

[Robert Patterso]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1885414
You can see his tank here.

[bean59]

i mostly do 10% a week

[flamron]

1-1.5G per day - I miss a day once in a while, but have been doing this for a couple months so far.

[sanababit]

Wow, where to start, ok guys, here it goes, i started like everyone else, doing my weekly water changes, then i started using ARTIFICIAL filtering like a denitrifier and bioballs, etc, etc, it worked really good but really started worrying about putting to much chemicals into my tank, so i decided to go a more NATURAL way, as the tank matured i noticed that my nitrates where staying at 0ppm so i stopped doing water changes all togheter, some might say, well you need to add trace elements or fish need new water because their swimming in their own waste or new water does a coral good, or you need nutrient exportation, that for me at least is BS, i have a calcium reactor with ARM media and MAG media which keeps alk, cal, mg, trace elements, i have an algae scrubber which takes care of nutrient export, i still use carbon and phosguard for obvious reasons, and thats it, my params are
ammonia, nitrite, nitrate 0ppm
cal ~440ppm
mag ~1440ppm
alk ~8-9.5dkh
sal 1.025
temp 75-86f
This is only my experience, tha tank is a little more than 3 years old, full of sps, things die, things thrive, i really dont look for a reason why something died, i keep it simple and cheap, thats my story and like my signature says, Don't try to preach on me, I am to old to change and to smart to follow the lemmings...

Sana

[Doobze]

I just started doing 1g water changes on my 60g system every day, very very easy to do. I'm interested in the other people's results in using this daily tiny water change routine? How's it worked out for you guys?

[boodlefish]

when i started my tank (a year ago now) i had every intention on doing 14% monthly water changes... but i have ended up only actually doing 3 to 5 water changes ranging form 7 to 14gallons each. i guess i just wait until i feel guilty and then do a water change. I will make up 2 gallons of salt water when i buy new frags and know i will need to use some of my tank water for the acclimation and dip process. but thats about it. i find myself not wanting to buy salt so much and doing less and less WC's. i used to worry about adding too many nutrients especially with my limited WC's but i noticed that my corals were getting lighter/ pastelish. i now feed like crazy and dose AA's and am able to keep low nutrient without too many WC's- i have a good skimmer and dose carbon and bacteria to keep N&P in check.

[sanababit]

It really is a testament to how awesome ATS systems can be.

Sana what's your evaporation like? Also is there a noticeable smell from the ATS?

Hi, i really dont know how much evaporation i have, i had always used an autotop off since the start, its conected directly form the RO to a macanical float inside the sump, ATS has NO smeel to it, unless water stops flowing thru it for a long period of time, and it still doesnt smell bad, it smells like wet dirt....

Sana

[sanababit]

what's your secret?
Inquiring minds want to know?

Theres no secret, everything is available to you, algae scrubber, skimmer, carbon and phosguard, fuge, rock, sand, that is it, in time your tank will mature and start to process nutrients better and faster, good luck

Sana

[sanababit]

Sanababit is Neptune in disguise. tricky reefer you are oh king of the ocean... :D

Neptune in disguise?, LOL, I AM NEPTUNE!!!!:D

Sana

[808Rob]

Theres no secret, everything is available to you, algae scrubber, skimmer, carbon and phosguard, fuge, rock, sand, that is it, in time your tank will mature and start to process nutrients better and faster, good luck

Sana
walk me through ur secret setup? here's my sump

[stevedola]

whats the difference between running an aglae scrubber and a fuge with macroaglea?

also, do you seed the screen? or just let the algae develop?

[sanababit]

walk me through ur secret setup? here's my sump

LOL, well water comes down thru two overflows, one goes to a compartment where there's a pump that feeds the carbon, PO4 and calcium reactor, the other overflow comes down where the fuge is, in the fuge there is rock, sand, some kind of macroalgae that really doesnt grow, then both comparments go into to the middle where the return pump is and a little pump is that feeds the algae scubber, the water keeps recirculating a bit, IME the algae scrubber works prety well, and sometimes it gets really full of algae and sometimes it doesn't, it all depends on the amount of nutrients in your main tank, i try to feed the fish without going overboard, but its hard, they always seem hungry, lol, oh and i have a couple of koralias in the first compartment and in the middle compartment which turn on at 12am, what this does is lifts all the detritus on the floor of the sump and the return pump kinda feed the corals when they have extreme polyp extension, well that is my secret....

Sana

[sanababit]

whats the difference between running an aglae scrubber and a fuge with macroaglea?

also, do you seed the screen? or just let the algae develop?

Well the diference is first the algae you grow, turf algae seems to eat not only nutrients but metals and chemicals i believe, i need to go read the site again.... that is why i was convienced, when you first install your algae scrubber you will get diatoms, hair algae, cyano, etc and after a little while you will start getting like a green mat of algae that is really hard to remove, that is turf algae, when you clean your scrubber you will need a blade to remove it, cut it short and put it online, with enough flow and light and nutrients it will grow again in no time, also it is a good idea to clean it weekly because if you let it in place too long it will start to color your water kinda yellow, this is why i run carbon 24-7 and it helps a lot to keep water crystal clear, good luck

Sana

[zimmyfan]

25% every other week

[wickedfish]

use to do 25 gallons every 15 days for 7 months, now do 14 gallons every weekish now for 7 weeks...changes.... no nitrates, phosphates 0 before .25 or higher on both, better color in corals but still have no or little PE. I also clean the glass a lot less, coraline growth and die off (can't figure that out), growth is winning though.
Sana, man what can I say your tank is what young guns like me, wish that when we woke up we had your success and growth, cheers!

[curlykid]

5 gallons every week on a 28 gallon.

[chefzif]

+1 on 10% weekly

[tozzi]

15- 20% every other week