The Uglies and Water Changes

[Flyangler33]

Hey All,

I am about 2 weeks back into stability since my tank crashed due to tornado wiping out my power. I lost all my coral, inverts and 1 fish. All other fish somehow survived. Now that I am back to some sense of normalcy still a young tank going through the ugly stage. How frequent is too frequent to do a water change. I need to get a CUC back in the tank, but there is still some algea clean up work and detritus build up. It is a 50gallon AIO system. Is doing a 5% water change twice per week or every 3-4 days too much, or let it ride deal with it looking ugly and just do a weekly 10% change? Any input is much appreciated.

 

[Extremeengineer]

I've wondered this same thing, I have a young 75g, and I am doing 15g water change once per week, so 20%, it's just easy to make 3 5g RODI buckets, and I figure that may help lessen the extent of the uglies with heavy handed nutrient reduction. But I have wondered if I am simultaneously doing anything negative with these large changes.

 

[Flyangler33]

I've wondered this same thing, I have a young 75g, and I am doing 15g water change once per week, so 20%, it's just easy to make 3 5g RODI buckets, and I figure that may help lessen the extent of the uglies with heavy handed nutrient reduction. But I have wondered if I am simultaneously doing anything negative with these large changes.

My exact thoughts. I will say due to the crash, the first week of clean up, I did A LOT of water changes, almost 1 per day, and the fish seemed to handle it ok, just wasnt sure if it is the move or not.