The cannister on this 190-gallon tank is on a 5-month cleaning schedule:
The substrate gets vacuumed every couple of months or so, and the tank's been solidly stable since inception over 2 years ago. The Oscar started as a 3-inch baby, achieving his now 8" stature in that time. Fish all seem happy, growing - even the little Figure-8 Puffers and Danios who should have been eaten by now, according to conventional wisdom. For some reason, the lone Mbuna adopted from a broken home is doing well, despite predictions of his death and destruction surrounding the situation here. There have been a few lineup changes/adds in that time with NO deaths.
How can this possibly be?
The substrate gets vacuumed every couple of months or so, and the tank's been solidly stable since inception over 2 years ago. The Oscar started as a 3-inch baby, achieving his now 8" stature in that time. Fish all seem happy, growing - even the little Figure-8 Puffers and Danios who should have been eaten by now, according to conventional wisdom. For some reason, the lone Mbuna adopted from a broken home is doing well, despite predictions of his death and destruction surrounding the situation here. There have been a few lineup changes/adds in that time with NO deaths.
How can this possibly be?