About water changes - what are your thoughts on this?
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(is it possible to have a heavily planted aquarium that doesn't need water changes or filtration?)
Back when I started in the hobby, in the late 50s, these unfiltered tanks, were called "balanced aquarria".
It'd be a tank of maybe 3 mosquito fish, and 100 plants, or 4 neons and 200 vallisneria.
And back then, some aquarists thought water changes were bad.
Of corse back then, science was a far cry from what it is today, some people may have still believed the earth was flat, and disease came from evil spirits, and miasmas.
Back when I started in the hobby, in the late 50s, these unfiltered tanks, were called "balanced aquarria".
It'd be a tank of maybe 3 mosquito fish, and 100 plants, or 4 neons and 200 vallisneria.
And back then, some aquarists thought water changes were bad.
Of corse back then, science was a far cry from what it is today, some people may have still believed the earth was flat, and disease came from evil spirits, and miasmas.
well one of my 20 gallons just has elodea and duckweed, i guess we will know when i test the water
There are still flat earthers, I bet they still think all the rest too. This is the question we should be asking them!
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keeps his tanks like I have and do now for years, lots of terrestrial plants with their roots in the water to help reduce the pollutants but he still does water changes as do I. Fast growing hardy aquatic plants help also. But we are fish keepers first and that doesn't always work with plants.
Yeah kind of normal. Increase flow, decrease lighting, reduce nutrients. How do you reduce nutrients? More stuff that uses them...plants or more water changes.
