Water change reuse?

You say you want pics?

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/...l****erID.html

rtk

Great tank!
Can you share the lighting system you use?
Thanks, I thought I was alone against the water changes.
BTW, I see is an edu site, is that tank in your house or on campus?
As soon as I build my new hood, I will be posting my pictures here too...
This is getting interesting, I bet the LFSs here are going to hit you hard
now.
iy
"rtk" wrote in message
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You say you want pics?

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/...l****erID.html

rtk

You'll note in his previous post that he in fact does do weekly water
changes. Not 1 single person who doesn't has posted a pic of a reef
tank yet.

Inabón Yunes wrote:
Great tank!
Can you share the lighting system you use?
Thanks, I thought I was alone against the water changes.
BTW, I see is an edu site, is that tank in your house or on campus?
As soon as I build my new hood, I will be posting my pictures here too...
This is getting interesting, I bet the LFSs here are going to hit you hard
now.
iy
"rtk" wrote in message
...

You say you want pics?

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/...l****erID.html

rtk

Inabón Yunes wrote:
Great tank!
Can you share the lighting system you use?
Thanks, I thought I was alone against the water changes.
BTW, I see is an edu site, is that tank in your house or on campus?
As soon as I build my new hood, I will be posting my pictures here too...
This is getting interesting, I bet the LFSs here are going to hit you hard
now.
iy

It's only 2 x 96 plus 4 little moonlights.
I change water often!
The tank is in my house. There's a dramatic one on campus.
You're not going to believe this, but the LFS here is
extremely helpful.

rtk

"rtk" wrote in message
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You say you want pics?

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/...l****erID.html

rtk


Nice tank.
pic of mine
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...diyrock064.jpg

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See my web site
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/myreef/

Steven M wrote:

"rtk" wrote in message
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You say you want pics?

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/...l****erID.html

rtk



Nice tank.
pic of mine
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...diyrock064.jpg


Very dramatic! I wish I could have a Yellow Tang, but my
tank is too small.

rtk

That's silly. Maybe one day you will set up a reef tank,
and then you will know what this news group is all about.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Inabón Yunes wrote on 11/9/2006 8:54 PM:
It seems to me that you don't have an aquarium, the aquarium has you!
Do you ever go on vacation? if that's so, who does your weekly water
changes?
As far as I know, your weekly water changes replace all the filters in your
tank, might as well get rid of those because they are doing nothing to your
water.
And you only have a 55?
I have a friend that spent $3k on hardware and does water changes every 4
days, yes, almost twice a week.
I have to brag about it now, I have a 65gal with a minitank in series of 20
gal, total of 85gals on my system and haven't done a water change in a year
yet with 30 inches of livestock that is the envy of my neighbors because of
how good it looks in my favorite place.
Soon I'll be posting pictures here but until I can manage to build a better
illumination system, I have to wait!
iy

"rtk" wrote in message
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Wayne Sallee wrote:
Most people do a 15% water change once a month. I like doing a 50% water
change about once every 3 to 6 months.
I do 6 gallons change in my 55 gallon tank weekly. Because of all the
rocks and corals, it's probably more than 15%. The RO/DI has to be run
weekly anyhow, and some green algae has to be removed that often and the
additives are used weekly + the coral feeding and the anemone's weekly
shrimp diet, so it just seems convenient. Also, 6 gallons is how much fits
in the pail, so I don't have to measure the level in the tank. It just
seems all around simpler to do all the weekly stuff at once.

rtk

When I do and proof you wrong, will you teach your customers to build an
in-series system?
iy
"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
nk.net...
That's silly. Maybe one day you will set up a reef tank, and then you will
know what this news group is all about.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Inabón Yunes wrote on 11/9/2006 8:54 PM:
It seems to me that you don't have an aquarium, the aquarium has you!
Do you ever go on vacation? if that's so, who does your weekly water
changes?
As far as I know, your weekly water changes replace all the filters in
your tank, might as well get rid of those because they are doing nothing
to your water.
And you only have a 55?
I have a friend that spent $3k on hardware and does water changes every 4
days, yes, almost twice a week.
I have to brag about it now, I have a 65gal with a minitank in series of
20 gal, total of 85gals on my system and haven't done a water change in a
year yet with 30 inches of livestock that is the envy of my neighbors
because of how good it looks in my favorite place.
Soon I'll be posting pictures here but until I can manage to build a
better illumination system, I have to wait!
iy

"rtk" wrote in message
...
Wayne Sallee wrote:
Most people do a 15% water change once a month. I like doing a 50%
water change about once every 3 to 6 months.
I do 6 gallons change in my 55 gallon tank weekly. Because of all the
rocks and corals, it's probably more than 15%. The RO/DI has to be run
weekly anyhow, and some green algae has to be removed that often and the
additives are used weekly + the coral feeding and the anemone's weekly
shrimp diet, so it just seems convenient. Also, 6 gallons is how much
fits in the pail, so I don't have to measure the level in the tank. It
just seems all around simpler to do all the weekly stuff at once.

rtk

There's nothing new about filtering water in series :-)

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Inabón Yunes wrote on 11/10/2006 7:49 PM:
When I do and proof you wrong, will you teach your customers to build an
in-series system?
iy
"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
nk.net...
That's silly. Maybe one day you will set up a reef tank, and then you will
know what this news group is all about.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Inabón Yunes wrote on 11/9/2006 8:54 PM:
It seems to me that you don't have an aquarium, the aquarium has you!
Do you ever go on vacation? if that's so, who does your weekly water
changes?
As far as I know, your weekly water changes replace all the filters in
your tank, might as well get rid of those because they are doing nothing
to your water.
And you only have a 55?
I have a friend that spent $3k on hardware and does water changes every 4
days, yes, almost twice a week.
I have to brag about it now, I have a 65gal with a minitank in series of
20 gal, total of 85gals on my system and haven't done a water change in a
year yet with 30 inches of livestock that is the envy of my neighbors
because of how good it looks in my favorite place.
Soon I'll be posting pictures here but until I can manage to build a
better illumination system, I have to wait!
iy

"rtk" wrote in message
...
Wayne Sallee wrote:
Most people do a 15% water change once a month. I like doing a 50%
water change about once every 3 to 6 months.
I do 6 gallons change in my 55 gallon tank weekly. Because of all the
rocks and corals, it's probably more than 15%. The RO/DI has to be run
weekly anyhow, and some green algae has to be removed that often and the
additives are used weekly + the coral feeding and the anemone's weekly
shrimp diet, so it just seems convenient. Also, 6 gallons is how much
fits in the pail, so I don't have to measure the level in the tank. It
just seems all around simpler to do all the weekly stuff at once.

rtk