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Hi,
I currently have "A" 30G tank and I change 5 gallons
weekly.
Frank


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Weekly @ 30%

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20% every week in the time-honoured fashion.

By the way Jase, thanks for that most excellent explanation of bimonthly. According to my Webster's (American) dictionary, bimonthly means once every two months. According to my Oxford (English) dictionary, bimonthly can mean happening twice a month or once every two months. It has the additional note: "Often avoided, because of the ambiguity of meaning, in favour of two-monthly and twice-monthly."

Just for fun, invite a bunch of mixed-nationality people to come for lunch "next Sunday" and see what happens!

Well, just like the title, how often do you do it. I'm just curious to see everyone's level of activity in their aquarium.

If North America says it means, 'Every other week' then so it shall be written in the tablets of time and passed down till the sun burns away!........

oh, and weekly.

-Dennis

Last edited by Beefshank at 08-Feb-2005 07:27

VOTED FOR: Weekly

We shoot for small water changes/gravel vac weekly, but every once in awhile we fall to bi-weekly because of one or both of us being out of town. So when we are out of town and skip a weekend...we don't feel so bad because it is usually done weekly.

I try to make sure it's done weekly, and I used to do it on Saturday. Because my job takes up most of my weekend time, I'm going to start doing it on Wednesday.

Weekly water changes are the key to sucess!

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40% daily... discus in a planted tank.

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Every week to 10 days.

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Weekly at about 25-30 %,
Thats a lot of water for my 2 tanks.


Gibson SG you know you want one!!

25%. Using the Python makes it easy

approximately 22% per week or ten days.

sadly i can no longer use my python to refill my 46 gallon - or at least havent figured out a way to do it yet. about a month or so ago i noticed something in the water here that was clouding up my tank and leaving a white film on the surface of the water.

see, in order to connect the pyton i have to unscrew this filter thing thats on the nozzle of the faucet, so the water goes right from the pipes into the tank. one water change i noticed the water was full of this very fine white powder-y looking stuff. the fish didnt seem to be in distress but they werent frolicking in the current as they usually do during WCs. i can still use it to suck the water out and gravel vac etc., but to fill it up ive been using a one gallon jug (since i cant use the python with the filter) to fill the tank up, and it usually takes about 10 of them. UGH!

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Back in the saddle!

Every forthnight, a 20-25% water change.




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Actually, mine is different for each of my tanks

55 gal with two small BGK's = 25% once a week

55 gal with two dirty oscars = 30% twice a week

29 gal with no fish currently = 50% once a month
(I keep it running with hopes of stocking soon!)

20 long with small red ear sliders = never just add two gallons a week to replace evaporation

Usually about once every 2 weeks at about 40%
DREW

weekly @ 20-40%..depending on the tank. sometimes it turns into 2 weeks though

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Well, hopefully all know me well enough not to get overly angry, but I basically change my water (besides adding 5-10 gallons every other week to replace evaporation) about whenever I get around to it...which comes out to about once every 3-9 months...

So far I've had no issues with this pattern, so I'm not too inclined to change it just yet...

PM/email/msg me if you have any questions/comments regarding me or my knowledge or if you want me to read a thread.