generkon
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Hi.
So, I've had two fishtanks before. The last one was over five years ago and since then I've been thinking about setting up a new one but never really got around to it. Recently my friend offered to give me his old 30 gallon tank and I decided now's the time to finally do it.
However, both times I previously started a fishtank things went down the exact same way. At first I'd be super excited about it and take really good care of it, but after a couple months I'd start changing the water less and less and eventually I'd give up on it and give away any fish that had survived. I just really hate changing the water and the filters.
I was wondering if anyone had ideas on how to make a tank self-sustaining. I already know that I'm going to have lots of live plants and I'm sure I'll be able to set it up really well in the first few months. I'm not saying I wouldn't ever change the water or that I wouldn't have a filter, I would just like to set it up so that I don't feel guilty if the water hadn't been changed in a month... or two...
I was also looking into having a colony of smaller things, like daphnia or shrimp, in the tank which the fish could continuously eat so I would have to feed them less, if at all. And a filtration system where I won't have to keep replacing the nasty used filters.
Basically I want to set up a mini ecosystem that doesn't need me. Can anybody help?
So, I've had two fishtanks before. The last one was over five years ago and since then I've been thinking about setting up a new one but never really got around to it. Recently my friend offered to give me his old 30 gallon tank and I decided now's the time to finally do it.
However, both times I previously started a fishtank things went down the exact same way. At first I'd be super excited about it and take really good care of it, but after a couple months I'd start changing the water less and less and eventually I'd give up on it and give away any fish that had survived. I just really hate changing the water and the filters.
I was wondering if anyone had ideas on how to make a tank self-sustaining. I already know that I'm going to have lots of live plants and I'm sure I'll be able to set it up really well in the first few months. I'm not saying I wouldn't ever change the water or that I wouldn't have a filter, I would just like to set it up so that I don't feel guilty if the water hadn't been changed in a month... or two...
I was also looking into having a colony of smaller things, like daphnia or shrimp, in the tank which the fish could continuously eat so I would have to feed them less, if at all. And a filtration system where I won't have to keep replacing the nasty used filters.
Basically I want to set up a mini ecosystem that doesn't need me. Can anybody help?