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Interesting. I work really hard at keeping my 46 gallon S.A. setup pristine and the fish do very well. Lose a few over the years, especially if their blue rams or some cardinals, but I setup a tank in my kids room about 2 years ago. This is the setup.

5 Gallon AGA bowfront tank.
hob filter
NO heater
A few live plants

Fish:
2 Platys
3 Zebras
2 Otos
1 Neon (given to me by mistake when buying cards)
1 Cory

I do monthly water changes.

The only fish from the above list that ever died were the 2 platys. The zebras are going on 2 years, the otos about 1 year, cory and neon about 6 months.

NO heater, only monthly water change, small tank. Even the otos are fine.

I'm kinda surprise the tank is so stable.

My Scapes

Sounds like one of those just-got-lucky things. My dad was like that. He had a 55g that I remember was just packed with angels, neons, and black mollies. It was built into the basement wall so maintenance was on a whenever-he-remembered-to-do-it basis

I set up a 10g in my girls room at their dad's house. It was originally stocked with 5 platies, 2 of which died, and a female betta. Later 6 danios were added. As far as I know that's still the current stock. I don't know how often water changes get done. The last I heard though is that they have quite a bit of algae so when they're here this weekend we're having a tank cleaning/water change lesson

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sometimes luck has a lot to do with if it works or not *shrug* you just happen to be very lucky with this...don't move it or change it or anything different, otherwise it could crash, or it could just start them to spawn hilariously, and cause the insanity that goes on in my 29:%)

heidi

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you cant have only 1 cory, u haff to keep them in groups of 6

tetratech

What ever you are doing or not doing to that tank dont change. It sounds like it is working perfectly so why change any thing (procedures I mean)

Keith

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Thanks Keith, your right. I feel kinda bad just having the one cory in there, but it's only a 5 gal, not big enough for a school of them. I'll probably get another Neon.

My Scapes

You are one very lucky fish keeper!

monthly, even though you have done this and you know the problem, try making what is left of there life better. with weekly changes like when you do your reg tank.

As the song says "not gonna change a thing"

Actually my other son has a 10 gallon tank with the following:

1 firebellied newt
1 small green frog
3 White clouds
2 Guppies

All are great together. Monthly water change.
White clouds going on 2 years, newt 2 years, frog 1 year.

The tank is half way filled with water and I use an internal marineland filter which creates a small water fall, which is great for the white clouds.

Last edited by tetratech at 30-May-2005 09:12

My Scapes

True on the "don't change" thing. I had 3 frogs and a betta live 2 years each in a 2.5 gallon. Actually the betta's still alive. The only reason the frogs died was because I put a filter in there. It was too strong and they drowned.