HOW TO: Never do water changes
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People with 55 gallon tanks do 25% weekly water changes= 15 galllons per week or 2 gallons per day etc.
Can this drip system be slowed down to drip 2-3 gallons per day?
Thanks
Can I set up a Automatic water change system even though I do not have well water? How do I do that?
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Lee
Unless you are heating your fish room which i think you must be.
Get a life, do a bit more research and don't waste your money being taken in by cons like this. If I was to tell you a water supply pipe was made from a "special material" that helped the fish you would buy it.
Love the tank and the fish by the way.
I find a lot of people just parrot what other people say....I was told my idea was stupid and wouldn't work on aquarium forums for my 90 gallon tank and yet it is. I have 11 angels 6 tiger barbs and 6 red mollies all living a happy life.
Saves a lot of work and chemicals.
if you are putting in 24g of freshwater per day, and the water isn't naturally evaporating, isn't your salinity getting all out of whack?
I live in Scotland and I have done similar system taking most the idea from yourself last Wednesday for my 234 uk gallon tank with two 210ltrs water barrel for filteration and I use HMA filter for freshwater adding as its council water source which has additives added.
Every person I talk to they say I have to do water changes or my tank is gonna crash, yet no one has any experience .
Try doing water changes on anything larger than 100g with buckets. No thanks.
Currently getting together a 110g oscar setup. I don't fancy doing 25g of water change manually every week.
Going to use a sump setup anyway so I will just drill that as well.
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I like this idea and also watched your vid on making own water changer/gravel cleaner.
I would be interested in ideas on adding an extra element to all of these things for the use of the tank water (personally thinking for garden use, and/or if suitable for toilet, or maybe ideas to be able to re-use/recycle the water back to tanks...). I do like aquaponics for this reason, very 'water wise'...however, personally that would be for outdoors and I would love to 'brain storm' ideas for indoor use with average tank (currently I have just over 3ft and 2 smaller tanks, mostly gold fish varieties only atm). No plans to do any more as I will move soon and will do it then (less things to transport). However, nothing stopping from making the water changer and hook up a drip system and other things now and take it all with me later.
ps- I was even wondering with products that are 'grey water safe' etc if a good filter would make water safe for tanks...such as, wash machine rinse cycle water even...just a thought. The more times the same water can be re-used for multiple uses the better and ideally recycle back into the system to be used again...'every drop matters' (anyone on tank/rain water or in drought prone areas I bet can relate lol)
Thanks for the videos, look forward to more! :)
Cool thanks! I am just trying to find it easier in keeping my saltwater tank going! Awesome work, keep the videos coming!
touche' Good point. I saw the ray and thought it was saltwater. I just researched and found there are freshwater rays. Just another inquiry, wouldn't copper and other trace elements be constantly introduced through from some peoples' water sources and cause problems with certain fish?
1 - Firstly I have a mechanical filter to filter all the fish poop
2 - Then it goes to, or showers down to another mechanical filter to filter even the smallest wastes or D.O.C,s
3 - Then showers down to the carbon filter
4 - Then showers down to some Lava rocks
5 - and then showers down to more biological media for more filtration and to promote more good bacterial growth
6- And it goes off into a waterfall back to the pond
I also have live plants sitting around the edges of my mini indoor pond, I placed them in a way so that they have a plastic mesh/ screen around them in the water so that the koi's can't eat them or chew on the leaves or roots but still they would help in making the water healthier for the koi's.
Could you please comment if my filtration is in the correct order etc. ???
Any positive or negative comments to help me improve would be highly appreciated please.
Either that or I've completely misunderstood his vernacular and you're right and I would agree that would get expensive being run non-stop.
Although he did say it was 24 gallons per day, which is about 90 liters (easier for me to use liters). When you compare that to a bath which is around 80 liters, or how much people use to water their lawns/gardens or wash their cars it's not a massive amount (but yeah still quite a chunk).
Have been running an AP system now for over 8 months. Never did a water change, but honestly, it's just 4 goldfish I have. I do have a solids filter, which I clean every few weeks. The water does not look that clean anymore, as there are some tannins in it, but the fish & plants seem happy enough. Ammonia & nitrites are (close to) 0, nitrates I keep under 30 ppm (depending on how much I feed the fish) and also have some worms in my growbeds.
I top off with rainwater, add occasionally crushed eggshells for some calcium, some chelated iron & potassium (for the tomatoes) and maybe some liquid kelp now & then. Veggies grow pretty furious, fish seem happy enough. I'd suggest, if you wanna give it a try, start with a bioponics system, once it has been running for a few months, and the plants have established themselves, add some fish.
Cheers !
Good idea, yes? lol
very informative and useful thanks!
But I still get excited by the no-maintenance of it all!
I am always a big fan of your video´s. I saw this one and a question popped in my mind. How many of the fresh water from the drip system stays in the tank?. The dripping is on the top level and so is the overflow. Maybe that can be checked bij a test setup and drip in some fluid thats is coloured. I do understand that the aeriation makes a lot of movement in the water, but that would also mean that species like bettas are to keep in a set up like this. Keep those videos coming Joey!
(please excuse my english)
Keep up , )
i also keep fish like koi and flowerhorn
keep safe....