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Old 11-19-2007, 07:15 PM
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What are your water change rituals? Currently im doing 10% weekly with top offs when i need it. Is this sufficient?
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Old 11-19-2007, 07:21 PM
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I do a 12% change every 1-2 weeks.
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Old 11-19-2007, 07:52 PM
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15% weekly here.
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