Water change weekend?!?!?!

[Oregon Grown Reef]

Hello fellow reefers! It's water change weekend. How many of you are planning on doing a water change? What's the volume of the tank you're changing out the water on? Percentage water change? Do you haul buckets around or do you have something fancy to help streamline the process?


Bonus points: Post a pic of your water mixing station/equipment and the tank(s) you're working on.

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[Oregon Grown Reef]

I myself am planning on doing a 20 gallon water change on my 50 gallon tank (40 gallons actual volume). I let my nutrients rise too much without doing anything, so things weren't looking great. I don't have anything fancy for my mixing station. It's just a 44 gal Brute container with a Jaeger heater and Hydor Koralia powerhead. I lug buckets around when draining the tank and I use a Sicce Sincra Silent 2.0 to pump the water into the tank.

It's odd, but I forget how excited I am to see the tank right after doing a water change. I get a sensation of actually doing something to help the animals we keep feel better.

 

[sp1187]

30g.
syphon out 5g's into the blue 5g Abso-Pure jug. dump it into the utility sink.
repeat five more times. pump in 30g's from the BRUT on wheels.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

I have an AWC, so I do daily changes of about 1 gallon. Thankfully, all I have to do is push a button.

 

[Oregon Grown Reef]

I have an AWC, so I do daily changes of about 1 gallon. Thankfully, all I have to do is push a button.

Spoiled! Haha. What size is your tank? What are you using to do the AWC?

 

[Oregon Grown Reef]

30g.
syphon out 5g's into the blue 5g Abso-Pure jug. dump it into the utility sink.
repeat five more times. pump in 30g's from the BRUT on wheels.

Sounds exactly like what I'm going to be doing. The next step up from dumping in water from the bucket and getting it everywhere.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Spoiled! Haha. What size is your tank? What are you using to do the AWC?

Haha! Quite spoiled! It's a 50g cube. I got tired of buckets, so I got an AutoAqua Smart AWC.

 

[AJsReef]

1% a day, automatically and I just topped off my mixing tank the other day. So no water changes for me

 

[CMMorgan]

I took my ATO / AWC off my existing DT so I can start plumbing for the new build. If I knew it was going to take this long to get that tank corrected, I'd have waited.
Essentially, the new system will work like this:
Water line will go through the wall from my bathroom to my RO - mounted on the rt of my stand.
RO will process the water and send it to the holding container with a float valve on the left side of the stand.
ATO will take care of topping off daily.
Monthly, I'll add salt and mix the holding tank.
The AWC setting will pump water from the sump back through the wall into the drain and refill from the holding tank.
I'll use the KASA power strip to turn off the skimmer and pumps to do the AWC.
I won't have to get my hands wet unless I do a siphon manually.

I use the AutoAqua ATO / AWC.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

I have an AWC, so I do daily changes of about 1 gallon. Thankfully, all I have to do is push a button.

Braggart...

 

[sp1187]

Sounds exactly like what I'm going to be doing. The next step up from dumping in water from the bucket and getting it everywhere.

mouth syphon.

 

[Oregon Grown Reef]

I'm surprised there are so many with AWC systems. Do ya'll ever go in and remove detritus via manual water changes?

 

[ZoWhat]

Braggart...

Yes. You're paying him too much if he can afford a swanky AWCer.

Renegotiate his salary....

 

[dvgyfresh]

Water changes? I haven’t heard that name in a while (triton method)

 

[AJsReef]

I'm surprised there are so many with AWC systems. Do ya'll ever go in and remove detritus via manual water changes?

Barebottom and high flow lead to very little detritus settling. Very sporadically I’ll siphon a few piles into my roller mat

 

[AJsReef]

I have an AWC, so I do daily changes of about 1 gallon. Thankfully, all I have to do is push a button.

Sounds like too much work, automate that button push xD

 

[Ta2oodfreak]

Doing a big water change and sump clean out on the 180g. Removing the "miracle mud" that came in the sump when I was given the system and replacing it with a bunch of live rock I have had in storage. Spring cleaning!

 

[Gtinnel]

I will do around 2 gallons a day the same as I do everyday with an AWC as well.

 

[Gtinnel]

Thankfully, all I have to do is push a button.

Is it really automatic if you have to push a button to start it? I'd say you have a semi-automatic water change system.

 

[Oregon Grown Reef]

No pictures of your water change setups? No FTS?