Because my tanks are planted and most are not filtered at all..A woosh of water can change the substrate and make a real mess of the tank.. So I seive the water.
And I
am breeding the croaking gourami and the pugnax bettas. Everything else is just breeding along with them if they so choose..heh.
But I rather keep a solid regime that a babysitter can follow rather than
adjust for each different tank (this way for the dutch tank, this way for the bubbly on , ,this way for the one with the thing on back..blah-blah). Only the choclates get "special" separate treatment.
And overkill it may be.. *shrug* Though the subject
was IF you do it, not why ya should or shouldn't..
I also
Qt for 4 weeks. Float my boat, it does.
But if our fish were wild-caught at temps varying between 80-87 in the water..who the "^7! am I to tell them they have to make do with nearly 8 degrees cooler (or warmer for that matter) and the highest pH they can survive just because I want to keep other species in the tank?
Just keeping the fish at all can cause some squeaks in my animist beliefs..
keeping them miserable or in conditions any less natural than is a tank in the first place; would definitely be going against the grain.
And frequent changes are A MUST for the dutch tanks anyway. But why should I dump a bucket and cloud the water and mover the plants when I can control the flow with a sieve and add a pleasant rain sensation.
They Loove it..it is the only time the tetras come up top in the big tank that is
UGF fltered. They start dancing and chasing like the cories. and the knife comes out and starts pking through the plants a lot. The betta plays in it and follows where ever the pourng is. It seems to make them hungry. And it is fun to watch fish "play" and to see the tetras pretend they are neons too. So I seive the tanks that do not need that style too.
As for the solstice, I am used to following certain points of the year anyway because of my dad's cherokee beliefs as well as celtic ones. But I follow loosely
But; as far as temp.. my grandfather did it to color condition koi and golds and some of the other fish..as well as breed the oddballs.
And a degree change every other month is really not that difficult..specially if you have large blocks of spare time like me.