water quality and water changes on 40 Breeder???

I was just curious if your water can be too clean? By that I mean I'm doing water changes on my 40B once every week and a half to two weeks and change usually around 10 gallons... I know, probably excessive right?! But I haven't had any problems and my reef is thriving and doing great! Just curious if this might be excessive??


Additionally, I don't add any additional nutrients to my tank (never have don't think I'll ever need to) since the water changes usually keep it going smoothly and never have any issues with water quality or nutrient levels... Let me know if you guys think this is excessive for such a small tank, changing 25-30% of the water twice a month. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/ermm.gif


As you can see, I don't have any issues growing the reef, just am curious if anyone would think it would do better if I change less of the water more frequently, or more of the water less often...?


It's been up and running for almost two years now, bought it off of KPotter in October of 2011... Thanks again Potter!

 

Also, I have a scooter blenny, two clowns, and a six line wrasse, thinking about getting either a flame angel or mandarin goby... Any suggestions???

 

I've got two different t5 lights- one is 28"- 4 bulbs, 2 atinic 2 10,000K, and another t5 36" with one atinic and one 10,000K that I turn on when I remember to plug it in. Otherwise there's too much light in my tank and algae begins to grow...

I'm pretty sure I have an abundance of copepods, but I also have two cleaner shrimp that tend to keep them under control. I have had baby shrimp swimming around the tank but am just getting my 20 gallon sump set up today finally so hopefully it will be able to balance my tank out a little better... maybe be able to keep some of those baby shrimp alive for more than a day rather than just have them be free fish food.