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Message: [QUOTE="Lisak1, post: 357398, member: 6145"] And that's where you get to decide what is working best for you - and not worry about what anyone else thinks. Life is just that way sometimes. Both "sides" (I don't even like to call it that - this doesn't need to be a pond war ;)) will even have science that they can quote to support their argument. But it's clearly not definitive or you would see the followers of one method failing on a regular basis and clearly that's just not happening. If a regular water change was HARMFUL, you would know it by now, right? You've been doing it for a while with no bad effects that you have observed. The only question I think you need to answer is - has it actually been benefitting you in the way you THOUGHT it was supposed to. And maybe the only way to do that is to stop doing it and see what happens. Have you found anyone on the forum with a pond that is similar in size and set up to yours who isn't doing water changes? Maybe that would ease your mind a bit about what might happen if you experiment. Your questions are all good ones! You are a good researcher - your mind is open and you are willing to listen to different ideas. The "I've always done it this way and therefore I will continue to always do it this way" mindset is difficult for me to understand. [/QUOTE]