Sorry to have a moan, I need a bit of a nudge I think
I love my tanks and my fish, but I can't keep up with it anymore, I have purposely kept the tanks low maintenance and it's not really working
I have a sandy bottom corner tank, the flow of the water always means that the circulation doesn't take the waste around the tank and it just sits in one corner, I have 3 L numbers and they are messy, so just forever cleaning it out and end up sucking up bits of sand, I hardly have any left now. I also find that having sand in a corner tank means it ends up piled at one corner of the tank and I always have to shovel it back over to the other side. I am forever cleaning algae off the glass, even though I have stocking that should deal with it
I don't really like having such a heavy and bulky external filter (Tetratec EX1200) as lifting it and emptying it and cleaning it is pure hell for my back
My tank in the kitchen is a 80cm long and it's gravel. It's quite a clean tank, green algae isn't too bad but there is hair and black fuzz algae on my plants, despite very good oxygenated flow and flora glo tubes
This tank has a smaller external and seems to keep the water polished, it's very light and easy to change and clean and deal with, so that's not a problem
My stats are good, my stock is healthy and long standing
What can I do to get my mojo back? I feel fishkeeping is just extra housework right now, not getting much pleasure out of the corner tank at all and yet I waited ages to be able to afford to buy one!!!
Anyway you cant leave we need our Weirdo Detective back
