Re-aquascaping

[Chiasmodon]

I have 1 question.. since I can't literally find an answer by just searching it up.

do I have to replace the water? because I think the water has bacteria that are beneficial to both plants and animals but correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[FreshwaterCole]

I have 1 question.. since I can't literally find an answer by just searching it up.

do I have to replace the water? because I think the water has bacteria that are beneficial to both plants and animals but correct me if I'm wrong.

Hello,

So not sure why this didn't come up in Google search!.......but....yes you do need to do what is called a water change.
Like in a river/stream which is chaged by the flow of water, we must try our best to imitate that in our home aquaria, based on volume of water and stock.
The bb or beneficial bacteria is mostly on surface area, not exactly water column. But in doing water changes or wc's we do alter the parameters by at least some.

 

[SMPlantedTanks]

Agree with the above comment, but I thought I would elaborate based on the subject of the post.

Water changes are not specific to "Re-aquascaping". These are a fundamental part of having a tank with plants/fish (with the rare occasion of perfectly balancing a tank).

In theory, you could re-aquascape without changing the water, providing you are doing this as part of regular maintenance anyway!

 

[Chiasmodon]

Agree with the above comment, but I thought I would elaborate based on the subject of the post.

Water changes are not specific to "Re-aquascaping". These are a fundamental part of having a tank with plants/fish (with the rare occasion of perfectly balancing a tank).

In theory, you could re-aquascape without changing the water, providing you are doing this as part of regular maintenance anyway!

I was thinking that water will make it difficult for me to re-aquascape the aquarium because new decorations and new substrates need to be placed and the old decor and substrates will be removed.... for the sake of my plants.

my plan/steps are listed below:
stp 1. remove all plants and decor and gravel.
stp 2. remove all fish and inverts.
stp 2. remove all water
stp 3. place new decors
stp 4. place the new substrates
stp 5. put fertilizers and place the plants
stp 6. cycle the aquarium
stp 7. accumulate fish and inverts.

I felt bad for my fish.. and my inverts (because they might hate the new water parameters) .. but I did something wrong in the first place.. and that is.. I did not add enough substrate to support the root growth of my plants.. now they ended up having dead leaves and eaten by my ramshorns.

 

[FreshwaterCole]

Yeah definitely, if your gonna rescape then placing your fish in a temp tup/tank will be great to reduce stress and give yah tons of working room. Sorry, the question sounded more towards changing water

Best of luck in the rescape!

 

[Chiasmodon]

Yeah definitely, if your gonna rescape then placing your fish in a temp tup/tank will be great to reduce stress and give yah tons of working room. Sorry, the question sounded more towards changing water

Best of luck in the rescape!

sadly, I dont have spare tanks... I do have containers where I can put the fish, I just need to do a little work on preventing them from jumping out and ended up dying without my presence.

 

[FreshwaterCole]

If you are using same filter/media then the cycle should not take as long. Just make sure the filter/media remains in the tank water and doesn't dry out. You should should be able to add fish after your done scaping, filter back in, and water clear.

 

[Chiasmodon]

Yeah definitely, if your gonna rescape then placing your fish in a temp tup/tank will be great to reduce stress and give yah tons of working room. Sorry, the question sounded more towards changing water

Best of luck in the rescape!

sadly, I dont have spare tanks... I do have containers where I can put the fish, I just need to do a little work on preventing them from jumping out and ended up dying without my presence.

 

[SMPlantedTanks]

my plan/steps are listed below:
stp 1. remove all plants and decor and gravel.
stp 2. remove all fish and inverts.
stp 2. remove all water
stp 3. place new decors
stp 4. place the new substrates
stp 5. put fertilizers and place the plants
stp 6. cycle the aquarium
stp 7. accumulate fish and inverts.

Do you have a cycled filter in the tank? If so, then there may be enough beneficial bacteria on the existing surfaces (in your case plants and tank?) that means your tank won't require you to cycle it.

As FreshwaterCole said, the majority of beneficial bacteria is on surfaces in the tank, so if you have an established filter and the same plants and tank, then you probably do not need to cycle the tank.

 

[Chiasmodon]

Do you have a cycled filter in the tank? If so, then there may be enough beneficial bacteria on the existing surfaces (in your case plants and tank?) that means your tank won't require you to cycle it.

As FreshwaterCole said, the majority of beneficial bacteria is on surfaces in the tank, so if you have an established filter and the same plants and tank, then you probably do not need to cycle the tank.

I do have a bio-filter media. so I'm good then.. I'll just accumulate my pets after I'm done re-scaping.