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No more water changes for a year guaranteed!!!! (1 Viewer)

I saw this at the store the other day but thought it must be too good to be true and I didn't want to take any risks with my newly established tank.
 
sounds great! but you know you'll get a 5 gallon bucket of sand, it's called a "Remote Deep Sand Bed" and if you do that by mail, you'll just make the UPS driver mad.:gay1:
 
Anyone wanna try this for a year then write a review? I wonder if they guarantee your corals too lol.
 
Honestly any healthy reef to start has a chance to go a year without water changes. That doesn't mean it's a healthy environment for the organisms in it. As the trace elements get depleted how are they going to get added back? Magic?

With a stable tank I'll go months between water changes sometimes but I wouldn't go longer knowing you need to replace depleted elements that are beneficial to the living organisms.
 
dsb bucket? Does that really work? I never heard of this before now and read up on that link a bit but most of the info seems at least 5 years old, is this a practical solution to nitrates or are there better options now?
 
One can replace trace elements and other things that are depleted without water changes. Our lab system, back when it was doing really really well went a year or two at a time without water changes, routinely. And it did well for quite a few years (about 7 years) like that. During those years I was using C-Balance along with Calcium hydroxide dosing. I also used Biotrace. And I fed LOTS of food. Really heavy feeding. This was an algal turf scrubber system in those years.

(then we had some strange problems for quite some time (following the disruption caused by an overheating event) that frequent water changing did not fix, but finally we are back on track again and have a thriving system.)
 
To each his own, may work and may not. I'm not one to try though.

Bill has run Algae Turf scrubber for as long as I have known him. I recall him saying he doesn't do water changes. Also Ernie ( our past president ) had a 75g that because it was located on the staircase and water changes were difficult, he went years and years without doing them as well using just trace element additives ( Dirk would know, he sold him those bottles for all those years ).

You don't need this product specifically to do so there are other ways. It's just not for me.
 
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I use bacteria exclusively for filtration and no skimmer. The longest I can keep it running with out water change is about 6 months. At that point, I have to do the water change not because of Nitrate and Phospate they are both zero or very low, but coral growth slow...I have to do water change. I am almost sure it is the trace element get depleted by both the coral and bacteria and maybe some other stuff that acumulated that we don't have test kit to detect it.

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Taklu said:
could you elaborate why not SPS if elements that are depleted are replenished?
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from my experience nutrient levels are typically higher without WC. Let me rephrase what I said...You can keep SPS, but few will color up to its full potential. I can bet if you talk to most SPS dominate tank owners nationally, most if not all will agree with doing routine water changes and still replenishing trace elements.
 
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