No WC for 2 weeks?

[cherrmin]

hello, I have a fairly newish 75 Gallon tank which is about a month and half old I have two clowns, a diamond goby, 8 blue legged hermits, two conches, a bloody mary shrimp, a duncan coral and a BTA. I usually do my water changes on mondays, but i will be going on vacation on sunday and won’t be back for 10 days, meaning my tank would go two mondays without WC. i’m not worried about the feeding as I have family who know how to feed, but unfortunately they cannot do a WC. Will my tank be okay?

 

[SnazzyUrchin792]

It should be just fine.

 

[Uncle99]

hello, I have a fairly newish 75 Gallon tank which is about a month and half old I have two clowns, a diamond goby, 8 blue legged hermits, two conches, a bloody mary shrimp, a duncan coral and a BTA. I usually do my water changes on mondays, but i will be going on vacation on sunday and won’t be back for 10 days, meaning my tank would go two mondays without WC. i’m not worried about the feeding as I have family who know how to feed, but unfortunately they cannot do a WC. Will my tank be okay?

Enjoy your vacation

 

[Manpeckz]

Have top off water ready for someone if you don’t have an ATO system and just have them add a Tupperware of RODI each 3 days or so.

 

[CivicS14]

thinking too much into it, you're fine. I do mine every Sunday when I'm in town but I travel for work as well, if I miss it, no big deal. Same goes for vacations.

 

[Doctorgori]

I don’t have the nerve but some folks here go years without ever changing water

 

[CivicS14]

I don’t have the nerve but some folks here go years without ever changing water

I mainly do it to vacuum the sand bed and take some time looking at my tank from the top view to see where I need to trim my corals, make any adjustments, etc.

 

[Readywriter]

There was a story I read years ago about a guy in south east asia that had a tank stuffed with live rock and no filtration or powerheads at all, just some air stones and never did water changes and his tank looked like something that takes a ton of effort to achieve and his method is what lead to the berlin method. I dont know how true that story was but I believe it.

 

[Sophie"s mom]

hello, I have a fairly newish 75 Gallon tank which is about a month and half old I have two clowns, a diamond goby, 8 blue legged hermits, two conches, a bloody mary shrimp, a duncan coral and a BTA. I usually do my water changes on mondays, but i will be going on vacation on sunday and won’t be back for 10 days, meaning my tank would go two mondays without WC. i’m not worried about the feeding as I have family who know how to feed, but unfortunately they cannot do a WC. Will my tank be okay?

Yes, you and your tank will be just fine.

 

[kevgib67]

I do it every year without any problems and you have a very low bioload for a 75, when you get back it will probably look the same as when you left except for some biofilm on the glass.

 

[One Reefing Boi]

Some people haven’t done a WC in years