bloodlucky
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Let's say you start a new tank, whatever size you prefer. You run its nitrogen cycle, put care and logic into your stocking plan, then complete your tank. But then after a few months in, you have an epiphany and realize you want to start your whole stock over. What do you do? I am having this conflict now. My tank may or may not still have a deadly disease which after infecting its host causes it to become skinny and flattened out, and continue "wasting away" until it inevitably dies. I have spent loads and loads of money trying to treat this disease, buying CO2, taking time out of my day for extra water changes to maintain ammonia/nitrite stability for my relatively wide community stock without even getting the complete satisfaction I intended to get out of owning my "ideal fish tank." This is because the tank I have now isn't my ideal fish tank. I'm thinking about going more sophisticated yet more simple at the same time, something I haven't done before, yet should be less time and money consuming compared to my set up now.
But I still have a community of fish that have probably at least a year of their lifespan left. But being in high school, each year becomes progressively harder and more stressful and I feel like keeping up with the tank I have now is going to cause me to snap sooner or later. So I feel the best way is to restart my entire tank stock and change it up to a more simple one which would be easier to maintain (and I already have a specific plan in mind.)
I want to go from my tank which is currently more like this:
To something like this:
None of the above tanks belong to me, I'm just using displaying the contrast between the two kinds of stocking ideals that I was talking about. I guess my biggest question of this thread is HOW would I essentially restart my stock? If I return them to Petco or crappy stores, their lives would most likely meet a short end due to the poor care that those generic commercial pet stores put into their organisms.
For the record my tank is a 40 gallon, with 3 kuhli loaches, 4 gold barbs (1 in quarantine) and 5 neons. If that helps at all. Let me know if any of you have done what I am trying to do. Thanks.
But I still have a community of fish that have probably at least a year of their lifespan left. But being in high school, each year becomes progressively harder and more stressful and I feel like keeping up with the tank I have now is going to cause me to snap sooner or later. So I feel the best way is to restart my entire tank stock and change it up to a more simple one which would be easier to maintain (and I already have a specific plan in mind.)
I want to go from my tank which is currently more like this:
To something like this:
None of the above tanks belong to me, I'm just using displaying the contrast between the two kinds of stocking ideals that I was talking about. I guess my biggest question of this thread is HOW would I essentially restart my stock? If I return them to Petco or crappy stores, their lives would most likely meet a short end due to the poor care that those generic commercial pet stores put into their organisms.
For the record my tank is a 40 gallon, with 3 kuhli loaches, 4 gold barbs (1 in quarantine) and 5 neons. If that helps at all. Let me know if any of you have done what I am trying to do. Thanks.