MomeWrath
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This is my daughter's ten gallon aquarium. It is a used tank I got for her birthday four years ago. We tried guppies (haaaahahahahha) and a few things, but then it became kind of a catchall. A lot of you are going to lose your minds when you hear this stock list. Please don't. I'm not advocating anyone repeat this, only showing that sometimes, just sometimes, things work out okay when they aren't really supposed to. Something the world would do well to remember right now.
OK here goes:
1- betta obviously...this guy has already beat a tumor on his side that we were pretty sure was going to be his end. It grew and tore open and we prepared for the worst...and then he healed.
1 kuhlI loach. Yes, I know there should be more but there isn't. He's been in here for 2 years and he comes out to feed and mostly hangs out in the plants. Yes, I know he should be in a bigger tank, but he's doing fine.
1 harlequin rasbora left over from a failed school in a different tank
1 glowlight tetra from a group of 5 I was keeping in another tank. They lived together for a few years and one by one sort of died off. This fish is at least 4 years old. I have no idea how he keeps hanging on, but he hangs out with the harlequin and they get along fine.
4 cory cats - three green and one albino. Yes, I know the tank is too small. They stay busy and don't seem to know that their tank is too small. They will be moved into my incoming 93 gallon cube within a couple months and they are not fully grown yet.
83568473 ramshorn snails
Plants - java moss that regularly covers the top of the tikI house, java fern that grows so thick in the gravel that we have to rip half of it out about twice a year, crypts that grow so much she has supplied every other tank in the house with at least one baby plant.
I'm fully expecting to get some hate on this, which I will not respond to... I wanted to share just because although there are some rules that should not be broken, there is more than one way to do anything, and the fish police sometimes don't know everything
As you can see, the tank isn't overrun with waste and there isn't a speck of algae in sight.
Filter - Aqueon Quiet One 10 with Poret foam replacing the stock cartridge.
Water changes are minimal, and sometimes she forgets to feed them. I am actually sort of jealous that the best looking healthiest most algae-free clearest tank in the house is the overstocked neglected one.
OK here goes:
1- betta obviously...this guy has already beat a tumor on his side that we were pretty sure was going to be his end. It grew and tore open and we prepared for the worst...and then he healed.
1 kuhlI loach. Yes, I know there should be more but there isn't. He's been in here for 2 years and he comes out to feed and mostly hangs out in the plants. Yes, I know he should be in a bigger tank, but he's doing fine.
1 harlequin rasbora left over from a failed school in a different tank
1 glowlight tetra from a group of 5 I was keeping in another tank. They lived together for a few years and one by one sort of died off. This fish is at least 4 years old. I have no idea how he keeps hanging on, but he hangs out with the harlequin and they get along fine.
4 cory cats - three green and one albino. Yes, I know the tank is too small. They stay busy and don't seem to know that their tank is too small. They will be moved into my incoming 93 gallon cube within a couple months and they are not fully grown yet.
83568473 ramshorn snails
Plants - java moss that regularly covers the top of the tikI house, java fern that grows so thick in the gravel that we have to rip half of it out about twice a year, crypts that grow so much she has supplied every other tank in the house with at least one baby plant.
I'm fully expecting to get some hate on this, which I will not respond to... I wanted to share just because although there are some rules that should not be broken, there is more than one way to do anything, and the fish police sometimes don't know everything
As you can see, the tank isn't overrun with waste and there isn't a speck of algae in sight.
Filter - Aqueon Quiet One 10 with Poret foam replacing the stock cartridge.
Water changes are minimal, and sometimes she forgets to feed them. I am actually sort of jealous that the best looking healthiest most algae-free clearest tank in the house is the overstocked neglected one.