How often do you change your scape - Aquarium Advice

WaterPond · 11-03-2006, 06:50 PM

I just want to see how often people change their scapes so i can see if i am crazy or not, lol.

mr funktastic · 11-03-2006, 06:57 PM

i move atleast 1 thing every wek. not necessarily the whole scape but atleast one thing. or i will trima few stems and re arrange. but i think u are crazy waterpond

lol

blazeyreef · 11-03-2006, 07:02 PM

I change AT LEAST one thing prob. every other day LOL

dskidmore · 11-03-2006, 07:03 PM

I don't do as much weekly maintenance as I should, so eventually one species just starts to take over, and I have to re-arrange everything.

WaterPond · 11-03-2006, 08:19 PM

since i do my water changes every week, i take out all my plants except for glosso and vaccum the gravel, that way i get a really good cleaning in. I used to chage every day, lol

mr funktastic · 11-03-2006, 08:27 PM

why do u clean the gravel? your plants use all the crap - excuse my termanology. cleaning it out and disturding the plants is a bad idea. espicially the glosso. it will never grow if u keep removing it. it needs time to settle in the substrate so it can send out the runners. but rescaping is never a bad thing.

WaterPond · 11-03-2006, 08:50 PM

i never remove the glosso. I dont vaccum the gravel every week, asually every other week. I guess i will just leave it now but with such a small tank it grets grappy really fast.

mr funktastic · 11-03-2006, 09:11 PM

lol sorry i cant read apparently. u dont need to remove the plants to gravel vac. just vac as close as u can to them. leave the rest for your plants to use.

WaterPond · 11-03-2006, 09:22 PM

i will have to get a smaller vac then! the one i have now is about 3 inches across! lol. I'm thinking i will have to get the 3/4" one

drobertson · 11-03-2006, 09:47 PM

I had to go with other, I did not think that moving 1 or 2 small things as really changing tha auquscape, and I usually do something major about everyother month.

View Poll Results: How often do you change your aquascape?
every day	0	0%
every other day	1	5.00%
every week	2	10.00%
every two weeks	2	10.00%
every month	6	30.00%
twice a year	5	25.00%
once a year	2	10.00%
never change my scape	0	0%
other(explain below)	2	10.00%
Voters: 20. You may not vote on this poll

11-03-2006, 06:50 PM	#1
WaterPond Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Corunna, Ontario (outside of sarnia) Posts: 2,616 Images: 5	How often do you change your scape I just want to see how often people change their scapes so i can see if i am crazy or not, lol. __________________ Jason Canadian Aquarium Auction!

11-03-2006, 07:02 PM	#3
blazeyreef Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Nashville TN Posts: 1,591 Images: 1	I change AT LEAST one thing prob. every other day LOL __________________ Houston "Face Trials with Smiles"-Porter Ellett *My aquariums-5gall snowball shrimp, 20long-awaiting setup,29gall planted* "We are nothing until we make ourselves somthing" CTR**

11-03-2006, 07:03 PM	#4
dskidmore Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Genesee Valley Posts: 2,290 Images: 1	I don't do as much weekly maintenance as I should, so eventually one species just starts to take over, and I have to re-arrange everything. __________________ 75 gallon freshwater Baby shrimp sighted! 2.5 Gallon unpowered freshwater now with high light 0.25 gallon palmtop doomed to an unlit end?

11-03-2006, 08:19 PM	#5
WaterPond Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Corunna, Ontario (outside of sarnia) Posts: 2,616 Images: 5	since i do my water changes every week, i take out all my plants except for glosso and vaccum the gravel, that way i get a really good cleaning in. I used to chage every day, lol __________________ Jason Canadian Aquarium Auction!

11-03-2006, 06:57 PM	#2
mr funktastic Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: alliston, ON Posts: 2,220 Images: 17	i move atleast 1 thing every wek. not necessarily the whole scape but atleast one thing. or i will trima few stems and re arrange. but i think u are crazy waterpond lol

11-03-2006, 08:27 PM	#6
mr funktastic Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: alliston, ON Posts: 2,220 Images: 17	why do u clean the gravel? your plants use all the crap - excuse my termanology. cleaning it out and disturding the plants is a bad idea. espicially the glosso. it will never grow if u keep removing it. it needs time to settle in the substrate so it can send out the runners. but rescaping is never a bad thing.

11-03-2006, 08:50 PM	#7
WaterPond Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Corunna, Ontario (outside of sarnia) Posts: 2,616 Images: 5	i never remove the glosso. I dont vaccum the gravel every week, asually every other week. I guess i will just leave it now but with such a small tank it grets grappy really fast. __________________ Jason Canadian Aquarium Auction!

11-03-2006, 09:11 PM	#8
mr funktastic Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: alliston, ON Posts: 2,220 Images: 17	lol sorry i cant read apparently. u dont need to remove the plants to gravel vac. just vac as close as u can to them. leave the rest for your plants to use.

11-03-2006, 09:22 PM	#9
WaterPond Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Corunna, Ontario (outside of sarnia) Posts: 2,616 Images: 5	i will have to get a smaller vac then! the one i have now is about 3 inches across! lol. I'm thinking i will have to get the 3/4" one __________________ Jason Canadian Aquarium Auction!

11-03-2006, 09:47 PM	#10
drobertson Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northern Illinois Posts: 490	I had to go with other, I did not think that moving 1 or 2 small things as really changing tha auquscape, and I usually do something major about everyother month. __________________ http://www.fantasyreef.com/database/...getdb&db_id=8]

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