ParrotCichlid
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Seen a display tank in a shop a few days ago. The tank looked about 20 gallon in size.
It had about 50 fish or more in it. Every bit of open water was filled with a fish. It contained many different species of barbs including tin foil barbs. It also had loads of plecos in and apparently the store breeds plecos in this tremendously overstocked tank.
What is more shocking is that the guy who maintains it never vacuums the gravel. He simply replaces about 5 gallon of the water tgat evaporates each week and that's it!
All the fish look very healthy and no obvious signs of stress. The shop worker convinced me that the water quality stays great.
How is it functioning?
How can the water quality be fine with no gravel vacuum use?
I done a little experiment on my 10 inch zebra tilapia tank a bit ago. I dodn't vacuum the gravel for close to 2 months. All I done was drain 50% of the water and replace it every 10 days or so. The water quality never changed!
Will upload some pictures shortly
It had about 50 fish or more in it. Every bit of open water was filled with a fish. It contained many different species of barbs including tin foil barbs. It also had loads of plecos in and apparently the store breeds plecos in this tremendously overstocked tank.
What is more shocking is that the guy who maintains it never vacuums the gravel. He simply replaces about 5 gallon of the water tgat evaporates each week and that's it!
All the fish look very healthy and no obvious signs of stress. The shop worker convinced me that the water quality stays great.
How is it functioning?
How can the water quality be fine with no gravel vacuum use?
I done a little experiment on my 10 inch zebra tilapia tank a bit ago. I dodn't vacuum the gravel for close to 2 months. All I done was drain 50% of the water and replace it every 10 days or so. The water quality never changed!
Will upload some pictures shortly