WHATS THE LONGEST YOUVE WENT W/O WC?!

[petspoiler]

...... Interesting that most of the tank between 60-2000 never even knew about wc guess the water quality had something to do with it?? Or the fish used to be hardy before all the X breeding.

Anyways great thread and thanks for all the responses! Keep it going!!
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All the bad advice I was taught as a kid was pure ignorance of basic tank health..
Tap water quality nowadays isn't the reason for wc's, we just have better water conditioners for that.
Fish weren't any hardier back then either. They always became diseased because the horrid tank conditions weren't corrected.
None of my fish sources ever mentioned testing water or changing it when I described sick fish & bought meds.
The only disease meds I've needed for years & years, has been because of fish bought with prior exposure to something. Equipment failure, temp drops, etc can cause problems, but usually don't progress to needing real medications.
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[F1 VET]

Anyone else? Please share!




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[MonsterMinis]

late 80s early 90s .. top offs or 25% once a month, insanely overstocked tanks... i had a kuhlie loach live in a 40b. for over a year.. the water evaporated down to a few inches.. filter/heater ect all unplugged.. he survived a few years longer until i switched filters, and he got sucked up a not so narrow intake tube prefilter box. looking back im confident most my fish did so well because other then the water changes i fed well, and changed my filter pads religiousely, and kept them planted. now if my fish go 1 week without a water change i get nervouse.

 

[HarleyK]

Howdy,

I have a planted 15 gal tank with a breeding Garra spec. colony. I top off evaporated water as needed, and change 75% of the water once per year. Filtered by an Eheim 2213, which hasn't been opened in the past 3 years.

It's my zero-maintenance max-fun tank.
HarleyK

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[tomomothy]

Last year I let my 100g go for a little over a month with no wc. I had a GT, convict, a jag and a couple balas (all still growing, dont worry). Had a fluval 404 and sump, Nitrates were high (dont remember the number) but everything else was still stable. Only let my 240g go 2 weeks w/o a water change so far...

 

[ecoli73]

2 pots of porthos, 100 stalks of lucky bamboo...ugly as sin but I hope they will reduce enough nitrates while I am gone for a month. Portos have been there for a month, the bamboo I just put in water. I still have three weeks before I leave so I hope during that time the bamboo will establish themselves.


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[JasonG75]

3 months.

75 gal (2) Cascade 1000 Purigen in ea canister
Heavily planted (dirt subsrate)

 

[tomcat.415]

I have gone for about 6 months on one of my extra ten gallon tanks. I thought that my sick lima shovel nose catfish was dead so I just left it because I was so busy, and then about three months later I see something moving and its my LSNC. I had a aqua clear 20 on it and no heater.

 

[tomcat.415]

I meant 3 months

 

[knifegill]

Paradise fish alone in a large bowl with plants gets once yearly 100% change.