how Often Do You Drain Your Viv?

[Wallace Grover]

Long story short, my viv has its water table to the top of the soil and I didn't notice because of the leaf litter. Now I am going to drain it every single week to be safe (I haven't drained them since I built them )

I was wondering, how often do you drain your vivs?

[BOOSHIFIED]

If you are just misting then a lot of tanks you may never have to drain or drain every year or so.

The key here is misting doesn't not equalfull blown drenching.

Obviously a misting system would probably need more drainIng then hand misting.

[Erikb3113]

i keep my hydroton layer visible and drain when the water level approaches the top. no rule to follow as far as time, on an as needed basis. not good to let your substrate become completely saturated.

[earthfrog]

If you have plants you care about in there besides aquatics, I'd remove them and the frogs and leave the viv to air out with the top off, or better yet, remove the substrate and let it dry out so the plant roots won't rot.

I drain mine before the water reaches the soil level.

[Wallace Grover]

no frogs, oddly enough the plants haven;t shown any rotting signs...

[bsr8129]

i never remove water from my 20, actually I add water since i have 2 small water falls and as the water level gets to low i add a little bit to top it off.

[gio]

i drain my viv every once or so when the water color is more dark brown than light brown a nother way i know when to change the water is if it starts to smell it depens on if the water has contact with your substrait i tend to change the water every 3moths to clean bottled water with no chemicals

[Baltimore Bryan]

I've never needed to really unless I'm tearing down a tank with a water feature or something since I don't mist enough for it to accumulate that much.
Bryan

[gio]

what tipe of viv set up do you have and what (g??) is your tank

[Ed]

I install drains in my tanks so I don't have to worry about it... It drains to a 5 gallon bucket which I sterilize when close to full and discard.