Re: Fresh water top offs????
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Originally Posted by stephensixx
First off all, when doing a water change do you need to have the salt water mixed up and ready in advance in a bucket somewhere?
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Nope. But some do to make sure all the salt has dissolved.
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I keep hearing about tap water top offs, is this replacing evaporated tank saltwater with chlorinated tap water?
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Yep (with whatever tap water you have. I presume you are not adding chlorine.)
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this is what i did with fresh water tanks to keep the water level up, but i never imagined doing in in a fragile saltwater tank
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A marine fish and soft coral tank will do fine with tap water top offs which are frequent. Especially if the tank is balanced out and maintained with macro algaes. SPS corals are more sensitive and possibily ro/di top off would be recommended.
For tank where you do regular water changes the you may want to use ro/di even for the soft corals. Because the tank conditions are more dependant on the conditions of the replacement water.
my .02
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fw leiden since 1979, fo salt since 1979, mixed reef 55g 2002-2009. Strong emphasis on the tank taking care of itself. Balanced with plant life, no water changes, tap water, no filters in FW. Only dosing calcium, alk, mag in marine reef tanks. http://www.aquariumforum.com/f15/my-...ods-26410.html
recent tanks (till 2009) 7 years- 10g FW leiden 7 yrs, 55g mixed reef 7, 2 yrs, 20g FW leiden, 10 g fw leiden , 29g mixed reef, current tank 55g leiden
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