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Water Changes
I'm clearing up brown water from algae bloom and tanins. How much and how often can I change the water without freaking out or killing the fish? Our fish are African Cichlids, they seem pretty hardy, but maybe they're fooling me. -- ---------------------------------------------------- This mailbox protected from junk email by MailFrontier Desktop from MailFrontier, Inc. http://info.mailfrontier.com |
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"bk" wrote in message ... I'm clearing up brown water from algae bloom and tanins. How much and how often can I change the water without freaking out or killing the fish? Our fish are African Cichlids, they seem pretty hardy, but maybe they're fooling me. The two major factors to consider when doing water changes are temperature and chlorine/chloramines. It's not advisable to do more then a 40% water change every few days. This will help keep the water temp from changing too much. You can ignore this rule, of course, if your water supply is similar in temperature to your pond water. The second consideration in water changes is water treatment. If your water supply is treated with chlorine or chloramines, you'll need to add a binder to protect the fish. Chlorine and chloramines are very commonly used by water treatment facilities because they are not harmful to us in low doses, but they'll kill lesser critters, including your fish. These water treatments burn the fish's gills. It's always a good idea to keep some Chloramine-X, Stress Coat or similar additive around, especially when doing water changes. BV. The above question and answer are being permanently added to iheartmypond.com soon. It can currently be found http://www.iheartmypond.com/topiclis...ater%20Quality. |
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