I'm a lazy aquarist.
Right. We've got that out of the way, now lets move on and get to the point ...
I've got out of the habbit of maintaining my 250L tank, and despite an attempt to get it back up and running about a year ago, it has now been all but unattended for 18 months. That said, both limitted livestock and plants have survived entirely neglected for most of that time and as the lights have been off, there's not an overwhealming amount of algae.
I have finally had to admit to myself that I'm never going to be good at maintenance.
I'm sure I remember someone influential advocating zero (or near zero) maintainence tanks (the name in my head is Diane Halstead, but that's probably wrong) but I'd rather get back into good habbits, if only limitted habbits.
So, whilst 10% water changes and cleaning filter media every week are advisable, and that works great for deidcated aquarists, that's where I've struggled and I've proved their not necessary.
So, your thoughts, Dear Hive Mind, on low levels of maintainence.
How low can you go and still have an interesting well stocked tank?
Right. We've got that out of the way, now lets move on and get to the point ...
I've got out of the habbit of maintaining my 250L tank, and despite an attempt to get it back up and running about a year ago, it has now been all but unattended for 18 months. That said, both limitted livestock and plants have survived entirely neglected for most of that time and as the lights have been off, there's not an overwhealming amount of algae.
I have finally had to admit to myself that I'm never going to be good at maintenance.
I'm sure I remember someone influential advocating zero (or near zero) maintainence tanks (the name in my head is Diane Halstead, but that's probably wrong) but I'd rather get back into good habbits, if only limitted habbits.
So, whilst 10% water changes and cleaning filter media every week are advisable, and that works great for deidcated aquarists, that's where I've struggled and I've proved their not necessary.
So, your thoughts, Dear Hive Mind, on low levels of maintainence.
How low can you go and still have an interesting well stocked tank?