Planted tank?
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No it would not be impossible. You could do it if you had plenty of plants and small fish. I've kept guppies, killiefish, white clouds, endler's livebearers, badis badis, and other small fish in aquariums with no filter or aeration, just plants. I wouldn't recommend keeping largre fish this way.
Hello; I have run a few tanks with plants and a few fish and no filtration in the distant past. I did use lights and a heater. I have seen tanks of others placed near windows without lights with such setups. One such tank was around a ten gallon or so that was near a window and had a dense growth of corkscrew val. The tank also had a deep layer of gravel substrate, 4 to 6 inches. This observation eventually led me to use deep substrate or my planted tanks.
I suspect that those who want to raise plants will also keep a few small fish. The fish will at the least keep the mosquitoes down.
I suspect that those who want to raise plants will also keep a few small fish. The fish will at the least keep the mosquitoes down.
I have done this years ago, with a small tank of 15 gallons, lots of plants, and 1 Macropodus opercularis. It was totally low tech, no heater, and no lights, because it was set up in a window. It was interesting to watch the tank evolve, as certain plants would flourish, then die off as others took over. I did, eventually, even with small daily water changes, need to add an air stone to keep the tank from from becoming stagnant and smelly.
This lead to adding planted sumps to all my banks of tanks, and giving up on the normal filtration methods other than fractionation, the plants, and filter socks.
This lead to adding planted sumps to all my banks of tanks, and giving up on the normal filtration methods other than fractionation, the plants, and filter socks.
I have done this years ago, with a small tank of 15 gallons, lots of plants, and 1 Macropodus opercularis. It was totally low tech, no heater, and no lights, because it was set up in a window. It was interesting to watch the tank evolve, as certain plants would flourish, then die off as others took over. I did, eventually, even with small daily water changes, need to add an air stone to keep the tank from from becoming stagnant and smelly.
This lead to adding planted sumps to all my banks of tanks, and giving up on the normal filtration methods other than fractionation, the plants, and filter socks.
thats pretty cool . now seeing an actual tank i might try it on a smaller scale . my windows dont have much room to work with
If you use my earlier post, a 200 gallon with 10 6-inch fish -----> 20 gallon with 1 6-inch fish. 1 6-inch fish is similar in bio load to 26 2-inch fish. Recall, that was borderline however, therefore create a safety margin and use 5 or 6 2-inch fish. I think that is the sort of stocking I think would work fine. If there is any BB in the tank (there will be) and you use an air stone for stagnant water, you should be able to do that with much smaller WC.
Heavily planted tanks might have lots of BB. I don't know but obviously it's been done quite successfully.
I have done this years ago, with a small tank of 15 gallons, lots of plants, and 1 Macropodus opercularis. It was totally low tech, no heater, and no lights, because it was set up in a window. It was interesting to watch the tank evolve, as certain plants would flourish, then die off as others took over. I did, eventually, even with small daily water changes, need to add an air stone to keep the tank from from becoming stagnant and smelly.
This lead to adding planted sumps to all my banks of tanks, and giving up on the normal filtration methods other than fractionation, the plants, and filter socks.
One of these days I wanna come see your set-ups! lol you have some amazing stuff you've done.
