The Forgotten Tanks Thread

[HarleyK]

Howdy,

I run a minimal maintenance tank: Clean the Eheim 2211 once per year, change water maybe twice. It's a planted 15 gal tank with a Garra sp. breeding colony and some Malaysian trumpet snails. It's been like this since 2004. Conditions are absolutely stable. Water changes induce spawning. This is old-school.









Post details on your forgotten tanks, typical maintenance, inhabitants, etc.


HarleyK

 

[Red Devil]

thats a gorgeous tank... all those plants keep it maintained... just beautiful

 

[dawnmarie]

Very cool tank. I like the maintenance schedule.
Now if I could just figure out how to do this with my Cichlid setup

 

[Redearsunfish]

What a great planted tank!!!!

 

[Pharaoh]

Nice looking tank. I pretty much forgot about my planted tank. Only two guppies in a 75G. Did water changes just for the heck of it. LOL

 

[Glasman]

I use to always laugh to myself working at various pet stores over the years, people would always come in with dying fish and bad water, and i would stress to them to do water changes and such. Mean while half of my tanks got next to no maintenence and thrived.

 

[gomezladdams]

I just cleaned the 2217 on my sons 30g tank for the first time in 16 months.Its heavily planted with a school of glossoleptis multisquamatus and a few albino cories.I admit I do forget about it sometimes when cleaning the other showtanks,so it gets alot less waterchanges than the normal 50% weekly I do.Its probably the best looking tank though.

 

[knifegill]

My 5g acrylic hex mini-pond has turbo snails, detritus worms and fairy shrimp living in green soup. I add eggshell and pinches of food on occasion, but it's self-maintaining aside from the 50% water change I give it every few months when the green turns to turquoise. No heater, just a floating UGF tube stuffed with some nylon mesh. I feed the snails and worms to my other fish once in awhile, and the worms are reproducing in there, though not at a high rate. Probably too much oxygen for their liking.

 

[spiff]

My tank is similar. With no plants even. The longest I went with no water changes was 3 months and there was still no detectable nitrates. At that point I'm only doing water changes to remove tannins that are leaching out of my driftwood still.

Filters probably don't need to be cleaned even once a year.

 

[HarleyK]

Howdy,

Nice stories , and awesome empty tank, Pharao

HarleyK