Squeek wrote:
Could this guy (original poster) be screwing us around....
it sure seems that way
"Bob Wennerstrom" nospam wrote in message
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I've got a 15 gallon tank with about eight platys and a pl*co in it, no
plants. I used to lose a fish every 6-8 weeks. This seemed to happen right
after water changes even though I was using that chlorine remover stuff
and only changing about 2 gallons/week. So I did an experiment beginning
last March. I stopped changing the water. In the last year I have had zero
fishes die. I'm using a Marineland Emperor, wash the filter every couple
weeks and change the filter/carbon thing about every 3 months. No UGF.

So do you think I've got wicked nitrates buit up in the tank and the fish
are just used to it? I keep reading about how important water quality is
and how important water changes are yet I get good results for a whole
year never-ever changing the water, just adding to make up for
evaporation. Carbon doesn't remove nitrates does it?

Comments?



I hate top-posting.

No, but many who have responded to this thread has been screwing around.
It's really interesting how people have jumped to conclusions about
the water quality and gone on to criticize Bob in the complete vacuum of
meaningful data.

The ONLY data we have is that fish were dying and now they're living. I
can think of a lot of ways the water quality would be just fine, but I
don't want to speculate.

I would still very much like to see some water tests on this tank.
Wanna snail mail someone with good test kits a water sample of your tank
and tap, Bob? I'd offer but I only have nitrate and not phosphate or
conductivity, which I'd want to see.

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