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Re: [GSAS-Member] L102 (Snowball) Pleco
Matt,
It depends on perspective, because I try to take a shower every other
day,
try to spend less than ten minutes in the shower, and use a water saving
showerhead with less than 2.5 gpm flow rate, so to me, it seems like a
lot of water.
To others, who water their lawns, wash their cars, wash their driveway,
etc, it is miniscule.
Being around environmentalists a lot, I lose the mainstream perspective.
I think the best way to reduce water use is by reducing intake of beef.
According to
Earthsave, it takes over 50 gallons of water per pound of beef produced
as I remember, mostly in washing
out all the manure in factory farms.
I had a goldfish tank for almost two years without changing the water
once. Never had
a fish die, never used a power filter (plants were my natural filters).
One fellow I almost bought a saltwater tank from said he almost never
changed his water,
but used two powerful filters, and the water was always crystal clear,
and tested well.
I have NOT ever raised fry, so that might change everything. Well,
thanks for your perspective.
John
On Feb 28, 2005, at 3:51 PM, matt kaufman wrote:
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
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Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] L102 (Snowball) Pleco
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:10:32 -0800
Wow, 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
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