Tom,
How frequently can one carry out 50% water changes without it becoming counter-productive, assuming EI dosing is maintained? Could it be done every day or every other day, for example?
One thing that comes to mind is that every time I do a water change, I dose ammonia from the chloramine neutralization. Since my water has 2.5ppm chloramine, a 50% change will yield somewhere around .8 ppm NH3 each time. Not good in terms of possibly inducing algae germination, right?
Other reasons?
Or are frequent changes OK, but simply unnecessary?
How frequently can one carry out 50% water changes without it becoming counter-productive, assuming EI dosing is maintained? Could it be done every day or every other day, for example?
One thing that comes to mind is that every time I do a water change, I dose ammonia from the chloramine neutralization. Since my water has 2.5ppm chloramine, a 50% change will yield somewhere around .8 ppm NH3 each time. Not good in terms of possibly inducing algae germination, right?
Other reasons?
Or are frequent changes OK, but simply unnecessary?