question raised by last night's speaker

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Charter wrote:

> Next up: I was a little surprised last night when Mr. Lange mentioned that 
> his schedule for water changes in his fry tanks is 10% weekly.  I felt a 
> little like a chump, as I have been changing 50% daily.  (This is my first 
> foray into on-purpose fish breeding, so I end up feeling like a chump 
> rather often!)
> 
> Obviously this is a question that has no single correct answer, but I'm 
> curious: what's your fry tank water change schedule?

We don't generally distinguish between our fry and adult tanks..  we end 
up doing 20-50% every 2-4 weeks for all tanks.  The Lake Tanganyikan fish 
get 20%, the apistogrammas get 50%.  We get away with this "extended" 
interval because of the floating plants.  I suspect most of our fish would 
be dead if we didn't have all the floating plants.

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com