I've got a tone of shit lying around, possibly close to enough to set up a functioning aquarium, and when my python outgrows the 3ft tank it currently occupies, I'll have yet another tank with nothing in it.
I've kept fish in the past, although they have been higher maintenance tropical breeds which were nothing but a pain in the ass and should I set my shit up again, I never want to have to fuck around with changing water. I don't give a fuck if the fish are caught from a creek or $xxxx breeds, provided all I have to do is regularly feed and deal with the filter system or something. A friend of mine has a fairly large tank in his room and the shit be nasty, he's never cleaned it, yet his fish far outlived mine.
tl:dr/ Is there anyway I could throw some shit together, mix some species and spend next to nothing and create a self-cleansing aquarium system?
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The fish had also been alive for YEARS, and the tank was basically never cleaned. I have no idea how to pull this off, but I think that once you've got the tank running for ages, it becomes more... "natural" like a pond IRL. Maybe the fish just become more accustomed to it.
I found this extra funny because the science department at my old highschool was the last to see funding and the school was the oldest in the region so there were certainly a few of those around... nasty nasty tanks breading all sorts of shit.
It may actually be worth visiting my friend and taking a photo of his shit, the kid is clever as all hell who grows all sorts of shit in his room.. i think one of the fish he actually stole from our highschool's marine-studies program. Kids into all sorts of drugs and doses the fish on shit and they still power on. Got wild turtles in his room, vicious ones.. he had a pretty big liserd in a box one time I was over..
Algae eaters such as a plecostomus, and other hardy fish like zebra danios. guppys, mollys, and swordtails.
As long as you constantly replace the water, those fish could survive anything.
Each time you feed the fish, you add nutrients to the water that will over time get poisnous to the inhabitants.
The easiest way to get the toxins out of the water is by changing part of it. The second easiest is adding a chemical to the filter system absorbing toxins (and requiring change and regeneration after some time). The third (and most natural) is to have thriving and growing plants. They will absorb/use some of the nutrints and you can later trim and remove plants as they grow out of hand. Any other method trying avoid maintaining your tank is just a slow way of poisoning your stock.
Also the glass will get dirty from aglee also requiring cleaning and waste will accumulate in the gravel. If you don´t want to put any time into it besides feeding, I recommend you a different hobby...
P.S. NEVER changing water is like NEVER opening your window and airing out your room.
thx doods
Im not too sure about that, I kept some plants once and they dieded
What sort of plants were you keeping?
I own a Spider Plant and its easy as hell to take care of. Water once a week, prune the dead leaves, and give it sunlight. That's it
sounds pic-worthy! :thumbsup:
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