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02-13-2004, 08:03 PM
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Little fish in a big pond
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Canton, GA USA
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What is your maintenance regime?
How often do you change water?
How much water do you change?
Do you use buffers or other supplements? (esp. planted tanks)
Do you use RO/DI or tap?
Inquiring minds want to know...
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02-13-2004, 10:16 PM
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That Biker Looking Guy
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Bremerton Wa
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How often do you change water?
Normal in home I did 10 to 25% every other week
How much water do you change?
See above 
Do you use buffers or other supplements? (esp. planted tanks)
In most instances I did ya want to use a buffer or something that will balance out the ph to be close so as not to have the CO2 do all the work. To lower the Ph.
Do you use RO/DI or tap?
On my planted tanks I didnt just because of availability at the time. Now looking back I would have and used the buffers etc to make the water as close to what your replacing as possiable.
Alot will depend on what the tap water test at for ph alk and such
Jeff
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02-14-2004, 03:16 PM
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The Bull
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Tennessee
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i change 10 to 40 percent of the water every week, on my adult tanks. On my babie tanks depending how loaded they are and what size the fish are I do a 20 to 50 percent every day.
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02-14-2004, 03:18 PM
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Penguin is gonna get it
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maine
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i havn't had this tank up long, but looks like i'm regularly doing 10% wcs every week. I havn't messed with alk and hardness yet but i make sure to adjust Ph and temp.
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02-14-2004, 11:23 PM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleburg, VA
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If you really want to know. I have a 20g with plastic plants and two African Cichlids. I have two biowheels. As for mantience, a pinch of food everyday, and fill up with heavy top off water. No WCs. I figure, okay, the 120reef needs work, the 20needs work. $5 of livestock in one, too much to admit in the other! which one should i work on? Not a hard decision! 
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02-15-2004, 02:10 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Alaska
Posts: 1,119
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10% weekly, hob media rinsed every other day, tap (from my well) w/stressco. 1/2 tablespoon doc wellfish's per 10 gal, and in the discus tank, 10-15ml per 10gal of Blackwater Extract.
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02-29-2004, 08:14 PM
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Sodomy non sapiens
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: winder, Georgia USA
Posts: 714
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I top it off when it gets low and every other month I water the houseplants with water from the tank(~5% change). Its been going like that for five years now. I have 6 neons and about a dozen, they keep breading so I don't have a good count, plume tail mollies in a twenty gallon. I use a UGF and the tank is crowed with plants which i prune back every other month.
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03-02-2004, 10:30 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Portland, Oregon
Posts: 166
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I change 25% to 30% once a week. I add Tropical Master Grow fertilizer and root tabs (not on a very regular schedule) for the plants. I know that the planted tank gurus when dealing with high light, co2 supplemented tanks add lots of other fertilizers and do 50% weekly water changes. (I try to take it all in but the chemistry makes my head spin)
Deborah
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