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I understand, wg. Just that some voices were advocating no water changes, which is IMO a foolhardy experiment. I did the same thing a while back when I was outta town for a couple months.
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5 minutes after today's 100% water change:
Everything except the M. cavernosa (which usually only opens polyps up in the morning anyway) is already fully extended again.
Everything except the M. cavernosa (which usually only opens polyps up in the morning anyway) is already fully extended again.
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Chris, I'm sure this is fine for most SPS and shallow water corals, but do you do it on systems with fish, other inverts, etc.?
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We do it almost daily in quarantine systems.Matt_Wandell":z1416wwc said:
I have to agree here with my esteemed collegues. When i do my WC's i normally do 50-60% change in my FOWLR once a month. My LTA isn't bothered one bit. Temp is close enough. Might be alittle worried with corals but doubt it.
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knowing wgscott as I do, if you ask for the results cause the suspense is killin ya, then he will withhold them longer
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Galleon, I thought it was Water Closet???
I have done a 20 gallon wc on a system holding 70 gallons in about 6 months
I did just by 150 gallons worth of salt yesterday so I might step it up a bit now, I was runnin low
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Galleon, I thought it was Water Closet???
I have done a 20 gallon wc on a system holding 70 gallons in about 6 months
I did just by 150 gallons worth of salt yesterday so I might step it up a bit now, I was runnin low
Nitrates: 0-5 ppm (at detection limit of my test kit)
pH: 8.1-8.3 (using my pH paper)
iodine: can't detect (iodine test kits are unreliable, but I imagine I depleted it).
temp: 77F (time to plug in the heater)
dissolved oxygen: at saturation
salinity: 0.35 ppt
The water "looks" fine. But I think a series of large partial water changes are in order, and I am doing the first one tomorrow.
pH: 8.1-8.3 (using my pH paper)
iodine: can't detect (iodine test kits are unreliable, but I imagine I depleted it).
temp: 77F (time to plug in the heater)
dissolved oxygen: at saturation
salinity: 0.35 ppt
The water "looks" fine. But I think a series of large partial water changes are in order, and I am doing the first one tomorrow.
Things are also objectively worse than they were 6 months ago. There is a little bit of cyano. The skimmer has a lot of crap and aptasia. The tank has a lot of aptasia. The pipe organ coral died. Others don't look great. It very clearly needs a series of water changes.
The reason I was in no hurry to do the tests is because the outcome really wouldn't have changed my assessment. I am kind of happy to see it isn't a nitrate soup at pH 6.3, but apart from that, I don't take any particular solace in the results.
It needs large-scale water changes. I am not rushing into this because I wanted to prepare the new water properly and because I've had my kids myself all week and thus have had no time to do the labor.
The reason I was in no hurry to do the tests is because the outcome really wouldn't have changed my assessment. I am kind of happy to see it isn't a nitrate soup at pH 6.3, but apart from that, I don't take any particular solace in the results.
It needs large-scale water changes. I am not rushing into this because I wanted to prepare the new water properly and because I've had my kids myself all week and thus have had no time to do the labor.
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