[fishmama67]

Originally Posted by Frankie

I too am a fan of API and Salifert. I am leaning more and more over to Elos for Ca++ and nitrates, Hanna for P04 and KZ for the Potassium kit. I like my Seachem for the magnisium.
Most of my tesing these days are really Salinity and PH. The rest I only do when I see a change among my corals. My system is pretty mature now and stable with weekly water changes and the Ca RX is dialed in very well with Magflakes for the Ma++.

OK so here's a question: I have a buddy that lives near me and works with me too. I recently discovered he is an addict as well. His tank is about a year and a half old and is just beautiful! He says he only adds water for evaporation compensation and NEVER does water changes now. He said he doesn't understand why I would want to get an RO/DI set-up to do them when my tank will soon be "grown-up" enough to do the filteration and chemical balancing act alone. However, all I am reading in all SORTS of threads and posts is big talk about Water Changes. Sounds to me like HE's the one full of beans. Am I right? I am ALWAYS going to want to do regular water changes and testing and all of that if I want my tank to STAY healthy.