Originally Posted by
sdiscus
Frequent water changes are also not for me.... I am currently breeding a Blue Diamond pair. I have put a few plants to keep nitrite low. Last time I changed water around 5% a month ago, which will be be probably discourage by most breeders. I flush the breeding tank with PP and this is where I do water changes, but not too much. I also pump water through a 1 or 5 micron filter a fortnight or so just to get rid of any free swimming bugs, but only when there is no fry in the tank.
The practice of not changing water too much I learned from a breeder in Central Cost. He had four breeding pairs and claimed that he did not change water very often... probably a bucket a week which equals 1%. I bought some nice fish off him.