Thanks for backing me up!
I believe, if you are going to keep any animal 9fish in this case) it
deserves a clean environment in which to live
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No one (fish, human, etc.) would want to breath the same air (or water
in this case) over and over again in a small room either. That's the
conclusion I came to when I was young trying to determine how important
water changes are. Of course my opinion since that determination is -
change some of the water regularly, and don't take short cuts like
chemicals or electrical (just over 10 years ago there was supposedly a
new product that did something like run an electrical current through a
tank and it killed off the bad bugs while not harming the fish so
supposedly water changes weren't necessary,no one believed it and time
telled that that product was all hype, the experts were not
representatives of the water supply industry so in my opinion those
experts that said the device was really worthless were right by saying
water changes are just as necessary as they are before the product was
released and to not use the product - it was too good to be true and
only hype). After all - would you like to breath the same air for
months at a time? Airliners use recycled air and people still get sick
from it all the time. Those experts never got paid for selling water so
they are practically unbiased. My 2 cents - later!