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Old 07-24-2004, 03:06 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hello to all.

Thinking about a method so that the water be changing permanently, occurs itself me a system of leak in which a drop of water fall each second and thus same the aquarium come out of a drop each second. They believe that would be a good system?

I think that with this system not one must use anti- chlorine.

A drop by second equals to 1.14 gallons of water in 24 hours.

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Hello to all.

Thinking about a method so that the water be changing permanently, occurs itself me a system of leak in which a drop of water fall each second and thus same the aquarium come out of a drop each second. They believe that would be a good system?

I think that with this system not one must use anti- chlorine.

A drop by second equals to 1.14 gallons of water in 24 hours.

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Old 07-25-2004, 03:20 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Continuous water change systems are especially nice for fish only tanks. How well they work for planted tanks depends on what style of planted tank you plan to have. Some low light low maintenance tanks do very well with very infrequent water changes...like once every 3-6 months. Higher light tanks are easier to control the ranges of nutrients if you practice changing 50% of the tank volume weekly to "reset" the nutrients to avoid overdosing.

Depending on your plant species, lighting, and the quality of your water you may be able to find the balance between changing the water continuously and maintaining nutrients in the water column for the plants...or you may choose rooted plants that can get the majority of their nutrients from a soil based substrate. It's always fun and interesting to experiment and try other methods.
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