For all who manually dose, do you water change

[accline]

Okay, so I manually dose once a week and do few water changes, but I’m wondering if I need to dose after doing a 10% water change. I’ve lost a fish...I mean lost a fish. I feel it would be beneficial to change the water in case my critters hadn’t taken care of things, but don’t want to overdue things.

 

[Palyzoa]

Okay, so I manually dose once a week and do few water changes, but I’m wondering if I need to dose after doing a 10% water change. I’ve lost a fish...I mean lost a fish. I feel it would be beneficial to change the water in case my critters hadn’t taken care of things, but don’t want to overdue things.

Do a water test and see where things are at. That should let you know if you need to do a water change or not. Did you remove the fish asap? If you did it shouldn't affect anything if you have a healthy bio filter established. As for dosing, you shouldn't need to dose after a water change. You would be replenishing all the elements with the new saltwater.

 

[Crabs McJones]

I daily dose with 2 part. on my water change days, i do my dosing like normal, and then do my water change and test. If levels have gone down i dose again to adjust.

 

[mckinney0171]

i daily dose and test. i also change water once a month.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Okay, so I manually dose once a week and do few water changes, but I’m wondering if I need to dose after doing a 10% water change. I’ve lost a fish...I mean lost a fish. I feel it would be beneficial to change the water in case my critters hadn’t taken care of things, but don’t want to overdue things.

I'm not sure why you are asking. You likely won't need to dose "because" you did a water change, but often need to "in spite" of doing water changes.