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So I know the risks of adding too many fish at one time can cause a mini cycle to start, but what effect would adding too many plants cause, and more so, taking too many plants out of a stable tank?
Details (if anyone wants to hear my full sob story ): my 4 foot tank has been running around 10 months now and weekly tests show it is very stable, even nitrates are less than 10 with regular water changes (10% weekly, 20% month end making it 50% a month) and copious amounts of nitrate draining anacharis... so much so that I often can not even see my fish
I want to remove all of it (keeping handfuls only in my Betta tanks, they LOVE it) and at the same time add a couple young plants so that my tank doesn't become completely barren but I don't want to do it all at once if I'm going to cause a mini cycle. Suggestions? Comments? Ideas? Else come Monday, I will see what happens myself
Details (if anyone wants to hear my full sob story ): my 4 foot tank has been running around 10 months now and weekly tests show it is very stable, even nitrates are less than 10 with regular water changes (10% weekly, 20% month end making it 50% a month) and copious amounts of nitrate draining anacharis... so much so that I often can not even see my fish
- PS: a side note to any new aquarist out there deciding between planted and not planted... just recently being new myself, I highly recommend planted tanks to start up, especially the "weeds" of an aquarium (at least to start) since they are very helpful in minimizing the heartbreak of loosing fish when learning to deal with the dreaded nitrogen cycle on your first tank, I am not so proud that I can't admit my "waterweeds" saved my fish at least twice in the beginning!