Frequency of decor movement

[Crazy mike]

Hello all. I was wondering how often you all move around the decor with your tanks and to what degree. I'm also wondering if rearranging a tank to often is detrimental in any way to the fish within it. I personally completely rescale my tanks roughly every two week or so. I've never noticed my cichlids act any differently due to this but would like to hear from others and their experiences.


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[Jc1119]

I move decor all the time, except for when fish are spawning. Then, I leave as much untouched as possible.




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[neutrino]

Makes a difference what type of fish you're talking about. Might be helpful in some cases where you're having aggression issues, other fish may not care one way or another, but with some you might simply be causing unnecessary stress.

But, me personally, I normally might do some tweaking or changing in decor until I get what I want and like. After that I leave it alone, at least until I'm ready for a change.

 

[RampageRR]

I did it with my old african cichlid tanks when aggression was getting out of hand, but other than that I try to leave it be as much as possible.

 

[viejafish]

If you consider rearranging the rock a change in decor, then I do it in every water change as I have to move the rock to siphon off the dirt underneath. Since I cannot duplicate the same set up in every rock pile rearrangement, my decor changes frequently though within the same general scheme.

 

[Mythic Figment]

For the most part I live my decor alone and only move it after several months and I am bored with it, there is aggression in the tanks, and/or I am adding new fish and I want to avoid too much territorial behavior.


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[cali~budfish]

I move it around when I get bored of looking at the same scape. After I do though my loaches disappear cuz they are having turf scraps. I used to do it more often when one of my fish would claim too big of a territory.

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[Adamson]

I do it very little, every six months maybe. I want the fish to feel comfortable.


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[Siddons11]

I do about every other month whenever im bored with how it looks lol

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[cwj108]

My midevil changes the tank to his liking. He will rearrange, ill put it back, and as soon as im done he goes back to putting it how he wants.