Water change techniques?

d0rknyoface · Apr 23, 2016

This question is for anyone with coral placed up higher in their tanks.

I recently started putting up corals on higher shelves and when I did water change I forgot about the coral on the top shelf and pretty much left them out of the water for a few minutes until I was ready to replenish the tank with new water...and now that I think about it, i probably killed my clam

during that process

What should I do in the future?

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

805reef · Apr 23, 2016

change the water from the sump

pgr11 · Apr 23, 2016

805reef said:

This^^ makes things easy. You can then make sure the water temp is correct too before pumping it back to the tank.

Sent from my XT1575 using Tapatalk

reefCurious · Apr 23, 2016

Does that means if the power is out and the DT drains to the sump a bit and the claim is out of the water????

M3ace9 · Apr 23, 2016

I have acros out of water for a few minutes every month, never seen any negative reactions

TH64 · Apr 23, 2016

Clams definitely can't be exposed to air repeatedly
or for prolonged period of time. You can put most corals higher up and they can survive being out of water but it can cause stress and lead to color loss.

Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk

d0rknyoface · Apr 23, 2016

reefCurious said:

My drain tube won't empty out that much water. So I'll try water change from the sumo next time. I normally like to do 5gallon water change for me 20g tank. I'll update this in a month

Greaser9999 · Apr 24, 2016

d0rknyoface said:

Point your return nozzles down when you shut the return off, they will syphon water back into your sump until it pulls air. If I point mine all the way down I can get it to till my 28g sump, I do 15g changes max on mime and that will give me more than enough

russ13 · Apr 24, 2016

When you guys do water changes don't you want to do it in the tank so you can suck up any detritus that's sitting in there or clean the sand bed. That's what I do. I syphon into a fave gallon bucket, then I have a 5 gallon water container with a large opening on top that a power head can fit in. When I have vacuumed up five gallons of water, I just pump the new stuff in

TH64 · Apr 24, 2016

russ13 said:

I do 5 gallons in the sump and 5 in the DT. I clean sections of my sand bed and baste junk off rocks every time.

Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk

rayray · Apr 25, 2016

a lot of old school reefers strictly did water changes in the sump; in fact any additions only to the sump for maximum slow mixing and stability.

Tyrone · Apr 25, 2016

Do you guys keep powerheads that are positioned low in the tank on, or is it not necessary?

Playa-1 · Apr 25, 2016

I usually do my water changes from the sump as well. I just have a T off the return line to pump water out of the sump. I like to use a powerhead to stir up any settled detritus and pump it out.

karm40 · Apr 25, 2016

I change from my refugium 20 gallons. Siphon out detritus and dump in new water. Since there is a slow return from the refugium it alters the tank chemistry slowly.

Water change techniques?

d0rknyoface

Member

805reef

Premium Member

pgr11

Member

reefCurious

New member

M3ace9

Member

TH64

Member

d0rknyoface

Member

Greaser9999

Member

russ13

Premium Member

TH64

Member

rayray

Member

Tyrone

New member

Playa-1

Member

karm40

New member

Latest posts