LCieParagon
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How often is one required to do water changes in a tank with no animals but highly planted? I haven't found much information on this.
Mostly this would depend on if you dose ferts to put micro and macro nutrients into the water. If you never did a pwc your plants would use up many of the necessary minerals, etc and with no fish to help fertilize you would likely have an imbalance.
It would also depend on how your water is naturally. I have no KH out of the tap and this will mess with my tank pH making it unstable so I need to add minerals.
Plant tank I would do 25% every 10-14 days or if you like fussing around in the tank, 10% weekly. As mentioned above just to keep things fresh and clear.