Hi everyone! I'm going to write a bit about my tanks now.
29-gallon:
This houses my 2.5-yr old male texas map turtle, 8 (previously feeder) goldfish that he didn't eat, 1 bala shark, and 1 (previously feeder) guppy that he didn't eat. Since rooted plants don't fare so well against the turtle, I really only have some anachris, hornwort, duckweed, and frogbit in this tank. The substrate is black flourite sand. The plants keep the water clean enough that I do no water changes; I just top the water off and keep the animals fed.
10-gallon:
This houses 3 koi angelfish, 4 neon tetra, a few ghost shrimp, and a ridiculous amount of ramshorn snails. I also have so many plants in this tank, I don't even know what half of them are called. There is 1 large amazon sword, 3 tiny amazon swords, java moss, frogbit, duckweed, anachris, 1 red tiger lotus, dwarf sag, glosso, spiral val, pennywort, and various others. The substrate is black flourite sand topped with black gravel. Again, the plants keep the water clean enough that I do no water changes; I just top the water off and keep the animals fed. I dose excel and leaf zone whenever I remember.
3.5-gallon:
I also have a low-tech nano Iwagumi set up at work that is housed in an ADA Mini-S. This contains rapidly multiplying RCS, nerites that somehow popped up, ramshorn, and 3 harlequin rasboras. The only plants I'm growing in this one are dwarf sag and glosso. The substrate is black flourite sand topped with black gravel, and there are 3 ryuoh stones. I dose excel and leaf zone almost every day, and my plant growth is explosive with minimal algae and almost zero maintenance. Just like the previous tank, the plants keep the water clean enough that I do no water changes; I just top the water off and keep the animals fed.
29-gallon:
This houses my 2.5-yr old male texas map turtle, 8 (previously feeder) goldfish that he didn't eat, 1 bala shark, and 1 (previously feeder) guppy that he didn't eat. Since rooted plants don't fare so well against the turtle, I really only have some anachris, hornwort, duckweed, and frogbit in this tank. The substrate is black flourite sand. The plants keep the water clean enough that I do no water changes; I just top the water off and keep the animals fed.
10-gallon:
This houses 3 koi angelfish, 4 neon tetra, a few ghost shrimp, and a ridiculous amount of ramshorn snails. I also have so many plants in this tank, I don't even know what half of them are called. There is 1 large amazon sword, 3 tiny amazon swords, java moss, frogbit, duckweed, anachris, 1 red tiger lotus, dwarf sag, glosso, spiral val, pennywort, and various others. The substrate is black flourite sand topped with black gravel. Again, the plants keep the water clean enough that I do no water changes; I just top the water off and keep the animals fed. I dose excel and leaf zone whenever I remember.
3.5-gallon:
I also have a low-tech nano Iwagumi set up at work that is housed in an ADA Mini-S. This contains rapidly multiplying RCS, nerites that somehow popped up, ramshorn, and 3 harlequin rasboras. The only plants I'm growing in this one are dwarf sag and glosso. The substrate is black flourite sand topped with black gravel, and there are 3 ryuoh stones. I dose excel and leaf zone almost every day, and my plant growth is explosive with minimal algae and almost zero maintenance. Just like the previous tank, the plants keep the water clean enough that I do no water changes; I just top the water off and keep the animals fed.
