From: John Ruhland <john@drruhland.com>Reply-To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat<gsas-member@thekrib.com>To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat <gsas-member@thekrib.com> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] L102 (Snowball) Pleco Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:10:32 -0800Wow, sounds like a lot of work, but rewarding. Is there any way to recycle water to avoid the waste of so much heated water?Maybe a better filtration system. 30% water changes every other day adds up to be a lot of water. John
Compared to one 15 minute shower a day? I doubt it.My experience is that, in general, filtration is way overrated. It's only purpose is to postpone water changes. With sufficient water changes, filtration is unnecessary. Sufficient being a function of the amount of fish waste produced. Most of the big discus breeders in SE Asia, for example, do 90% daily water changes (in good sized tanks). In my opinion, you can't do enough water changes. This is why I'm designing a flow-through system for some racks of tanks in the garage (for killies and other small fish), great for fry growth. I think the only sort of 'filtration' that's of great value is protein skimming in marine tanks, I have seen marine tanks that only had protein skimmers and light bio-loads go months between water changes (with the occasional RO water topoff to deal with evaporation.)
YMMV, of course. Matt _________________________________________________________________On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement
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