No water changes in saltwater aquarium will kill your fish
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- No water changes in saltwater aquarium will kill your fish. The goal of water changes in your saltwater aquarium is to remove nutrients that build up over time in the tank. Therefore, if we manage to remove the negative effect of accumulation of all bad things or processes in our tanks, your saltwater aquarium and fish will thrive. Saltwater aquarium care and maintenance videos by rotter tube reef.
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I love that you bought the clownfish👏 I did same thing with a plain white dartfish, it's been with me in 3 tanks over 8 years 👍🏻well done for sorting your bros tank out 😊
I have done a water change in years but fish and coral are doing great! I have a good refugium and clean my filter socs and does all for reef and I'm good
Refugium is your key
Love the naso
Don’t think I agree with this, lots and lots of people have fish and do zero water changes for years. I don’t think we should rely on water changes for nutrient control.
No, it's not needed, as long as your system can handle the nutrient load. However, I equate water changes to something similar to how we like to get fresh air, after being couped up in a room all day, or an environment with recycled/controlled air. It's a nice quality of life upgrade for the animals, which we decided to care for.
If you don't do water changes, nutrients will pile up so much over time, trapping in sand, rock, like a disaster waiting to happen. How do you get the nutrients out then? How do you handle nutrient control.
@@ROTTERtube via bio filter like me. Carbon dosing, filtration etc. in fact I think water changes can have a negative effect on the aquarium, such as a swings in parameters which would be more of an issue than nutrients. How much nutrients effect fish? I have seen tanks with no3 in the hundreds with no effect on livestock. The only benefits water changes are for trace elements(to replenish some, still need to be dosed if consumed) and contamination removal such as heavy metals. Anyone who has been in the hobby for long enough will tell you small water changes will do nothing for nutrients.
I personally do automatic water changes (1.5l/day). Since I think it benefits their quality of life. As for control, I use a skimmer and an algae turf scrubber to keep the nutrients down. I gravel vacuum into a sock, into the sump once every three or four months, however, there isn't a whole lot of detritus coming up. I vacuum a third, because vacuuming decimates the bristle worm population.
@@stxe34maybe in big tanks, sure. Small water changes are ideal for sps tanks.
I havent done a water change in months.. I keep the nutrients down simply by carbon dosing. I'm using ORCA Titanium cube together with an airpump. Nitrates are around 10ppm. Don't have much corals except some mushrooms..
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thanks. what about all the crud in the sand and in the rocks that collects? what do you do for that? this is the part I'm confused on. really good cleanup crew? do you just move the sand around a bit to churn that stuff to get it pumped out?
@@ROTTERtube I didn’t and have not done anything about all the junk that is collected in the rocks. Everything on the rocks eventually gets blown away by water flow. Anything that is able to produce ammonia and nitrite even if on the rocks gets consumed by bacteria. Nitrate gets removed with the method I mention. I also haven’t touched the sand in a long time. I have 3 Nass snails then stir it up a little during feeding. I use to vacuum the sand bed into a filter sock placed in the sump and then remove the sock to dispose the junk. Essentially water was never removed from the tank, only junk. But even if I don’t remove the junk, eventually it gets broken down into nitrate which is then removed by carbon dosing. I’m not quite addressing the problem, just providing a very good solution to the nitrate/phosphate problem.
It’s like Covid being a problem. But we can’t get rid of Covid. But we can wear mask and be vaccinated etc. So we’re not getting rid of the problem but having quite a good solution. Organic junk is removed via protein skimmer. Nitrate and phosphate removed via carbon dosing. Filter floss removes and trap all the junk before the protein skimmer. Fishes are very happy. This is a very simple solution to “lazy Fowlring”. Sensitive corals keeping require more in-depth study.