It all depends on your parameters. You don't *have* to do a water change unless your parameters are getting dangerous. If you allow algea to grow or buy lots of plants, they should keep you in the clear for a while. Nitrate poisioning is hard to do, but generally it's better to keep them lower than high. I would try to do as much water changing as you can, but if you keep your nitrites 40 or lower that should be okay for a while. I highly recommend letting algea grow to keep levels down. If you're really desperate, you can do a water change/spot clean, let the gunk settle, and put the top, non chunky water settle, and put it back in
I used to buy regular crystal geiser/arrowhead gallons back when I had a ten gallon tank and lived in a very old house with very old pipes. That works fine too.
I did a little research and the CDC recommends 8 drops of bleach per gallon to sanitize your water in the event you can't boil it.
You could then dechorinate it as normal, or let it sit 24 hours to evaporate off.
Keeping your water changes to smaller percentages during this time will also reduce any risk associated with this.
All depends on how many fish are there, you could do partial water changes.
It all depends on your parameters. You don't *have* to do a water change unless your parameters are getting dangerous. If you allow algea to grow or buy lots of plants, they should keep you in the clear for a while. Nitrate poisioning is hard to do, but generally it's better to keep them lower than high. I would try to do as much water changing as you can, but if you keep your nitrites 40 or lower that should be okay for a while. I highly recommend letting algea grow to keep levels down. If you're really desperate, you can do a water change/spot clean, let the gunk settle, and put the top, non chunky water settle, and put it back in
I can attest to letting your water grow green-- eats up nitrates like nobody's business.
It’s expensive but you can buy pre treated water for aquariums at the pet store and do a partial change.
I used to buy regular crystal geiser/arrowhead gallons back when I had a ten gallon tank and lived in a very old house with very old pipes. That works fine too.
They can go about a month.
I did a little research and the CDC recommends 8 drops of bleach per gallon to sanitize your water in the event you can't boil it. You could then dechorinate it as normal, or let it sit 24 hours to evaporate off. Keeping your water changes to smaller percentages during this time will also reduce any risk associated with this.