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To Refugium or Not to Refugium debate has been going on in the saltwater community for as long as I can remember. For the first part of my saltwater keeping years, I was a Fish-Only with Live Rock (FOWLR) aquarist. Maybe it was because I mostly kept freshwater fish-only aquariums prior to saltwater keeping or […]
(sigh) Water Change Wednesday is Coming Up Not doing water changes? I recently saw a thread on Reef2Reef that caught my attention. It implied that freshwater (FW) aquarium keepers do more water changes than saltwater (SW) aquarium keepers. The thread also implied that SW keepers try their best to avoid water changes by spending a […]
The Short Answer is Heck Yes! But What the Heck Does Frequent Mean? The ideal water change percentage for marine, reef, freshwater, and freshwater planted tanks is 10-15% per week. This schedule can very challenging for the average aquarium owner. As a family man with a busy schedule, I must admit that there are times […]
