Mickey C
Wed Sep 08, 2010, 04:51 AM
Please don't read this wrong, I don't currently do this it was just an idea that I've been thinking of to stop myself making any silly mistakes.
With any chemicals you may dose regularly, could you potentially premix them without side effect? I would think that any chemical trying to remove things from the water (eg, Prime) would be a no-no, but chemicals trying to add (Discus Trace, Excell) might be ok? The intent would be to make one bottle for my display tank, and another for my second tank (I don't put anything in the QT tank on a regular basis) where I simply add 10mL from the bottle and it's all correctly made up so 10mL of chemicals and water is the right "cocktail" for that particular tank.
The reason for the question is that twice this week I've been a bit sleepy and put Excell in my display tank (5mL) then walked over to another tank and put 5mL when it should really only be half that. Lucky it only has half a dozen guppies to cycle that tank (yes it has plants there too).
I guess a second reason is that if I'm doing 10% changes per day, then by the end of the week up to 70% of the water (and trace elements!) have been replaced. Would it therefore be better to have a tiny amount of trace elements being added every day, or one larger batch once a week?
I know people will say "don't put so much crap in your tank" but I'm only going to use Prime, Excell, Flourish and Discus Trace. That doesn't seem too much different from most people here (I think!).
With any chemicals you may dose regularly, could you potentially premix them without side effect? I would think that any chemical trying to remove things from the water (eg, Prime) would be a no-no, but chemicals trying to add (Discus Trace, Excell) might be ok? The intent would be to make one bottle for my display tank, and another for my second tank (I don't put anything in the QT tank on a regular basis) where I simply add 10mL from the bottle and it's all correctly made up so 10mL of chemicals and water is the right "cocktail" for that particular tank.
The reason for the question is that twice this week I've been a bit sleepy and put Excell in my display tank (5mL) then walked over to another tank and put 5mL when it should really only be half that. Lucky it only has half a dozen guppies to cycle that tank (yes it has plants there too).
I guess a second reason is that if I'm doing 10% changes per day, then by the end of the week up to 70% of the water (and trace elements!) have been replaced. Would it therefore be better to have a tiny amount of trace elements being added every day, or one larger batch once a week?
I know people will say "don't put so much crap in your tank" but I'm only going to use Prime, Excell, Flourish and Discus Trace. That doesn't seem too much different from most people here (I think!).