Water testing poll part 2

[Fly Guy]

How often do you test your water?

[Phishnoob]

Every couple of weeks. There I said it.

Well I do a weekly water change and do salinity to calculate the drain and fill but that doesn't count.

[skeety]

Kind of a hard topic to get a good feel for. Different stages of the tank will require different frequencies of testing.

Early on...when cycling, some people test everyday (which is good practice...since there's not much else to do at that point...cept research! )

But my tank's been up over a year...so I basically only test for Ca and Alk (have a pH monitor...so check that several times a day).

after a while, you kind of get an eye for the tank. You can tell, just by looking at your corals and what not...whether something's out of whack.

[Loverotties]

I check my meters every day but if the orp meter and/or Ph meter are ok then I don't check anything else.Maybe Calcium but it's always ok.

[bnplu]

It also depends on the size of the tank. My current tank is small so I do my test often.

[Brent Cone]

Once a week.

[Tim224DT]

I test once a week right after my WC's


Tim

[Cella75]

I have a very new tank, 2 months, and so I test mine once a week when I do a WC

[Tim224DT]

I didnt see the option of log test results. I do that.


Tim

[VWD]

I went with once amonth, It hard to say, if the tank is doing good I really don't worry, I do my water changes and all.

[Wiskey]

Oh crap, I log all my test results too, I didn't realise I could check more than one. I do the Ca, Alk, Ph, Phospate, Nitrate weekly. Mag I do about every other week.

Whiskey

[Weatherman]

Alk and specific gravity about twice a week (I rarely make adjustments to my dosing routine, but I want to keep that warm fuzzy feeling that things are still in line).

If I'm doing something like switching from kalk to a calcium reactor, or performing a rapid series of water changes (like I'm doing now in one of my tanks to switch from NSW to ASW) I check alk and specific gravity once a day.

It's pretty rare for me to test anything else, like calcium, pH, strontium or nitrate, unless I'm curious as to what the levels are.

[Hardhead Cat]

I try and do every thing (pH, CA, salinity, etc.) at least once a week, but when I'm having issues with corals or fish I test many more times than that!

HHC

[ReelFreak]

I went w/ once a week, but sometimes test Ca/Alk more often..... I also log my test results to see the trend of the tank, but my dog ate my logbook (Seriously, my g/fs puppy ate it!! GGrrrrr ).

[Bemo]

Now that my tank is looking great I don't test unless I feel like it or I see any signs of stress.