Might have to stop keeping ]v[onster Fish :'(

[OddBallKeeper]

I want to breed my Rottie €45 for 1''ers over here!! @ RaRalph Its my Christmas and Bday present and my mom n dad let me have it because this is what matters in my life
Fish
Family
Girls
Poo
School
I am getting interested FlowerHorns 'Red Dragon FlowerHorns' so I might give My Big Fish to my Uncle and Have Loaches and FlowerHorns. Not sure though...

 

[davdev]

The good thing is you are Ireland, which means you have plenty of rain being delivered to you daily. Just go get a big water bucket and collect rain water. Since you have a 540 gallon tank, I assume you are not in a flat, so you should have at least a small yard correct? You'll just want to make sure there is some aeration going on in the bucket to prevent it from getting stagnant. You could probably also throw some feeder fish in there to eat any insects that may congregate, though you want to make sure you don't over do it and create more fish waste, thereby negating the point of the water changes.

 

[GolemGolem]

what matters in my life
Fish
Family
Girls
Poo
School
I am getting interested FlowerHorns 'Red Dragon FlowerHorns' so I might give My Big Fish to my Uncle and Have Loaches and FlowerHorns. Not sure though...

Well, flowerhorns are big messy cichlids, they wouldn't be much easier on the water quality. If you like them more than your current stock then that's one thing, don't think it'll save anyone any scratch though.
If you're interested in poo, there is a guy here who refines and concentrates his fish poo and sells it for a couple extra bucks to a gardener. Told a guy I work with about it, and now I'm making him some fertilizer too (and he's giving me a few eggs and potatoes)...Can't remember the members name? He says though that and a few breeding projects, and some other interesting things he hasn't paid for his hobby in years. He'd be a good person to get some ideas off of.

 

[scalesandfins]

keep your fish just do less water changes and add more carbon and better filters. you will be fine

 

[OddBallKeeper]

Well, flowerhorns are big messy cichlids, they wouldn't be much easier on the water quality. If you like them more than your current stock then that's one thing, don't think it'll save anyone any scratch though.
If you're interested in poo, there is a guy here who refines and concentrates his fish poo and sells it for a couple extra bucks to a gardener. Told a guy I work with about it, and now I'm making him some fertilizer too (and he's giving me a few eggs and potatoes)...Can't remember the members name? He says though that and a few breeding projects, and some other interesting things he hasn't paid for his hobby in years. He'd be a good person to get some ideas off of.

Im not interested in poo i was just trying to show people how much i am hating school atm I think i might just keep My Aro CKF TSNxLei and might get 1 or 2 more monsters.

 

[Ocean Railroader]

There is a odd thing I had happen when I replaced these two old worn 1960's toliet's in my house with modern 2010 toilets in that the new ones only used a gallon a flush while the old ones used four to five gallons a flush. In the first week we had them they off setted the amount of water to fill my 75 gallon fish tank that went down the toilet and most likely they have helped our house off set enough water in the first month to fill up this fish tank.





How water is billed in Richmond VA is that it is $17 for the first 5/8 of a cubic meter of water used and then it goes into a system based off of how many cubic feet of water you use after that.

But the nice thing is that to buy a 100 cubic feet of water in Richmond it is $157 US dollars for it.

But in the City of Richmond if you use over a 100 cubic feet of water to 2000 cubic feet of water it would be $2500 dollars for 2000 cubic feet of water. The odd thing is if you use more then 2000 cubic feet of water such as 2100 cubic feet of water you would only pay $650 dollars for any amount of water over 2000 cubic feet of water used.

I wounder how water is billed in Ireland is it pur gallon or cubic foot or is it pur 1000 gallons.

 

[Younglin]

keep your fish just do less water changes and add more carbon and better filters. you will be fine

HORRIBLE advice.



Just get some pothos or whatever plant you like and collect rain water. If you use a big enough barrel and use your houses gutter system ( not sure if you have them? I assume you do? Excuse my ignorance of the country I'm actually from LOL.) you could do 50% weekly water changes EASY. I do 50% weekly water changes, although I only need to do 10-20%. I use snow, not rain though lol.

 

[SimonL]

^^ Younglin is right, although I feel the need to explain what's wrong with that advice. "Better" filtration (assuming you mean bigger or more) doesn't reduce nitrate, it simply spreads your bio-bacteria over a larger area and allows you to grow more bio-bacteria to handle a bigger fish load if you need it. It does not however, reduce your nitrate. Carbon removes dissolved chemicals, discolorations and smells from the water. It may prevent your unchanged water from looking and smelling like ass, but it doesn't make it cleaner. It's sorta like saying I want to save money on toilet paper, so I'll wipe myself less and buy a bigger toilet bowl and some air freshener...

Also, neither of those things help reduce the ever-falling ph in your tank. Without adding clean, higher ph water on a regular basis, your tank will drop and without new minerals as a buffer, it will suffer a ph crash.

If there was a filter that consistently and efficiently removed nitrate, someone would be making a killing off it.

 

[ExtraMe]

Go plants! this is what we did to lessen water change and keep water clean. we do water changes roughly once or twice a month and clean the filters every 2 months
we also collect rain water to lessen water consumption! GO GREEN POWER!
runs with just 2 pumps for the whole setup
BTW 420 gal tank there with 1 rtc, 1 TSN and a few tilapias (for dinner) hahaha

 

[Younglin]

It's sorta like saying I want to save money on toilet paper, so I'll wipe myself less and buy a bigger toilet bowl and some air freshener...

Sig worthy. And yeah I should have elaborated.

That is awesome. I have wanted to do that for awhile but don't have the space.