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Aquarium Advice Freak
Now that my tank is a year old, I've decided to give it a thread, will basically be progress pics ( not that it really changes much ) and new additions, nothing too technical cos I don't pretend to know more than I do, I have a very basic understanding of how to keep fish and that's how I like it, my tanks will never win awards and probably look average compared most but I'm cool with that, I prefer the fish to the plants anyway.. To begin with I used to watch and stress over every single change in the tank, be it fish movement or visual changes to temp variation and water parameters, I spent hours and hours googling answers, I reckon my wife began to doubt my sanity for a while, it's strange how the more you look the more you think you find.
I've been keeping fish for a little over 2 years now ( I don't include the time I unknowingly tortured goldfish in bench top bowls as fish keeping!! ) I've had a total of 3 tanks ( not including QT ) my 1st was 250ltrs, 2nd tank is 90ltrs and this is the 3rd ( it replaced the 1st )
I still enjoy my tank maintenance, it's strictly routine and thorough and as such my weekly water tests always returned the same results so now I rarely do them, unless something looks wrong with fish behaviour. Although the excitement from being new to fish keeping has long past, I do still get excited when I bring home a new fish and the ease of an established tank makes the hobby so much better.. I am still a fish tragic, I know every aquarium within a 20km radius of home and a few a bit further and I frequent the better 1st regularly just to see if they have anything good.
I can't grow substrate feeding plants to save my life but plants that feed from the water column seem to do really well, anubias and Java ferns etc ( I know they're super easy to grow ) I don't add and co2 or equivalent or ferts, just the basic chems to make the water habitable
I've been keeping fish for a little over 2 years now ( I don't include the time I unknowingly tortured goldfish in bench top bowls as fish keeping!! ) I've had a total of 3 tanks ( not including QT ) my 1st was 250ltrs, 2nd tank is 90ltrs and this is the 3rd ( it replaced the 1st )
I still enjoy my tank maintenance, it's strictly routine and thorough and as such my weekly water tests always returned the same results so now I rarely do them, unless something looks wrong with fish behaviour. Although the excitement from being new to fish keeping has long past, I do still get excited when I bring home a new fish and the ease of an established tank makes the hobby so much better.. I am still a fish tragic, I know every aquarium within a 20km radius of home and a few a bit further and I frequent the better 1st regularly just to see if they have anything good.
I can't grow substrate feeding plants to save my life but plants that feed from the water column seem to do really well, anubias and Java ferns etc ( I know they're super easy to grow ) I don't add and co2 or equivalent or ferts, just the basic chems to make the water habitable