Inquiry: Water change

[Panathas]

Hi,

Wanted to know on a 180 gallon tank + 75 gallon sum pump what percentage of water change do you do?

Weekly?
Bi-Weekly?

How many gallons do i remove?

 

[Webslinger]

Depends on your livestock, filtration system, dosing. weekly to none, 10% to 0%

 

[Panathas]

I was thinking about doing a 50 gallon water change every 3 days. My nitrate is a little high.

 

[Sherman]

Just dose carbon can control nitrate

 

[reefwiser]

Yes it all depends on the livestock and all. Normally you want to do a 10% change a week.
How long has the tank been set up?
What water changes where you doing before?
Nitrate is the end product of the nitrifying bacteria cycle of breaking down waste.
You want to slowly remove the nitrate level in the water over a several steps. Rapid reduction of nitrates can be just as harmful.
What you want to do is install cheato filter or denitrification tower to remove the problem other wise it will come right back

 

[Panathas]

I have many corals, two bubbly anemone and 1 magnifica. 4 Clown fish and 3 damsel.

The tank has been up and running since the end of December 2016.

I have added cheato in my sump pump.

 

[beaslbob]

get the chaeto growing then worry about water changes later

my .02