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Old 07-07-2009, 09:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default 10 GAllon VERY Low Tech

So this tank has been remodeled several times, and moved to three places around the house, and finally to where its at now, the front living room....okay anyways before i show the tank, i have a description of my tank, this tank has zero ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, ph is at about 7.0, low phosphates, i havent done a water change since March i think! there no heater,and yet everything in this tank is flawless, except for the fact that its not aquascaped! All the fish seem as healthy as possible, no fish casualty since last fall i think( and that was because the lights went out)!

This 10 gallon is overstocked with lots of guppies, a betta, pond snails, cherry and amano shrimp, a crab! and a firebelly newt!...ugh...
I would also like to mention that ive had rummynose, cardinals, angelfish, vampire shrimp, cyprichromis leptosoma and red eye tetras in there but these were moved to my 55 gallon eventually all very healthy and active,(NOTE: they werent all in the ten gallon at the same time!)
All the plants ive put in there have grown well too, but i soon remove them to add them to my 55gallon. A little algae is present but nothing big except on the back of the tank.

Okay, so anyways, i wonder, since this tank is over 2 years old, is this tank established?? i mean the water is CRYSTAL CLEAR, and it just seems like im looking at a river out there in nature, all perfect and no maintenance, and ive havent done anything, imean anything all! even if a plant is rotting in there i leave it and it just melts in there and no effect on any of the lifestock or signs of stress, all the shrimp are breeding, guppies breeding, betta looking more colorful then when i bought it, is this tank capable of going on byitself without worries?? except for, of course, evaporation...

Sorry for saying alot
But heres the pics, again the tank is not aquascaped:








Ill add more pics if anyone wants more???
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