Deitta
Aquarium Advice Activist
This may sounds strange and maybe a little wrong... but here it goes.
I feel like I have finally been successful with my display tank. It is a little crowded, but good filtration and large frequent water changes leave me feeling confident. There has been no illness or unexpected deaths (1 neon had neon disease... once he was not schooling we put him down).
My last purchase of fish (11 danos - only paid for 10 ) only lost one fish to cotton mouth. I did the proper QT and now all is peacefull.
All the fish either get along or have agreed to disagree and there is no fighting, lots of motion, color and variety.
I feel really proud at how far I have come in my fish keeping skills.
But now, I feel like there is something missing! For the last year it seems like it has been a constant battle/quandry that I have been able to spend many happy hours doing research and trying to figure things out.
Mostly I want to know, when you have finally obtained some peace with your tank(s), do you feel like you need more challenge?
I am playing around with the idea of adding more live low light plants to the tank. But I like how calm the tank is and don't want to make too many changes for fear of stressing out the fish and going back to ground zero. sigh?
I think this is really why MTS comes up! I have ideas in my head for a chiclid tank, different types of decorating themes... etc. Good thing my husband keeps me in check! When I let him... teehee
I feel like I have finally been successful with my display tank. It is a little crowded, but good filtration and large frequent water changes leave me feeling confident. There has been no illness or unexpected deaths (1 neon had neon disease... once he was not schooling we put him down).
My last purchase of fish (11 danos - only paid for 10 ) only lost one fish to cotton mouth. I did the proper QT and now all is peacefull.
All the fish either get along or have agreed to disagree and there is no fighting, lots of motion, color and variety.
I feel really proud at how far I have come in my fish keeping skills.
But now, I feel like there is something missing! For the last year it seems like it has been a constant battle/quandry that I have been able to spend many happy hours doing research and trying to figure things out.
Mostly I want to know, when you have finally obtained some peace with your tank(s), do you feel like you need more challenge?
I am playing around with the idea of adding more live low light plants to the tank. But I like how calm the tank is and don't want to make too many changes for fear of stressing out the fish and going back to ground zero. sigh?
I think this is really why MTS comes up! I have ideas in my head for a chiclid tank, different types of decorating themes... etc. Good thing my husband keeps me in check! When I let him... teehee