Feeling cramped in a 55

geofied said:
Now now...simmer down. I can't speak from experience with large tanks, but for my part, there is no way I could wait for water changes to do all my tank tinkering. Some of my tanks go months between water changes. I wet my elbows on average every other day, and sometimes more (not as often as I wet my bed though...duhdumdum).
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I was being silly, so no reason for me to simmer down. You're brave to say you don't do water changes for months. There's only one thing worse than the overstocking police, that's the water change police! You're gonna go get blasted for being lazy about water changes!
 
I know you were, simmer down is a pretty silly retort in response.

Brave, no. I just don't like to go with the flow if the flow is wrought with misinformation. Folks here know that I'm a bit of a rebel on certain things.

But now you're making assumptions about me being lazy(which I am, but that isn't the point). Notice I didn't say I don't do water changes on any of my tanks for months. I have 5 tanks (6 ifyou count my half-barrel pond), 3 of which I do the weekly 20%-25% changes religiously. The other two are my most heavily planted tanks and are a little more aligned with the Walstad method. Those are actually my two most stable and successful tanks so far. I didn't lose a single fish or shrimp from natural causes until a heater malfunction let the temp drop below 70 last week and I lost 3 of my beloved Pristella Tetras. I have also never seen a measurable ammonia or nitrite spike from these two tanks.

So blast away.
 
I think the tank looks lovely. Beautiful in fact. I like the way you put the tree stump off center in the aquarium. It being placed that way draws the eye to the entire tank and not just the tree stump. Very nicely done.

Marinemom
 
Well, I am cashing in my chips and selling the tank in the hopes something good and used comes up in the 75 gallon range. Again, thanks for your help.
 
Marinemom said:
I think the tank looks lovely. Beautiful in fact. I like the way you put the tree stump off center in the aquarium. It being placed that way draws the eye to the entire tank and not just the tree stump. Very nicely done.

Marinemom
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Oh, thanks, have to be honest here, it was really by accident. I was trying to use the hollow rock I had for my Loaches. Saw the stump and just had to have it!
matefrio, I think you won't regret your choice.
 
Well, I got a 75 gallon tank, stand, Flourite, co2 injector and eheim 2215 and some plant ferts for $200. It needs a bit of TLC but I can work on that this week.

I like the size much better and can't wait to put it all together. Now I need to sell off the 55s I have here in Houston so I can have some plant\fish money.
 
I set up my 56 wide last night and today, and man, the extra width is great. I am much happier now
 
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