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I know i saw a thread on this before but i cant seem to find it :%) How often do ya'll rearrange your tank? Is it good for the fish so they don't get bored? Or are you supposed to keep it the same?

Sam

I rearrange my cichlid tanks occassionally (every few weeks) which helps to keep some of the more aggessive behavior minimized as it causes the fish to establish new territories.

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I do mine at least every month. Sometimes even twice a week during water changes, if fish don't like it, they must hate me by now! I usually break down the tank completely and start over, so far I haven't had any problems with the fish, they don't get stressed or anything, I guess they just go " here comes the interior decoration guy AGAIN!" and stay in a corner.

With some fish that I've had over the years they even go to nib on my hand while I'm placing plants or rocks so I guess they are pretty much used to it by now, some Ottos I even have to remove manually from my arms to be able to take my arm out of the water.

I guess it al depends on how often you do it for them to get used to it, and how careful you are at it, I think they already know you are not there to harm them.

sxp8397

I work on the theory of "If it aint broke dont fix it"

I will the odd thing around my tank and it might get done one day in a few years or may be a few more years on.

I personally can not see any reason to change it just because it is the thing to do. It can take a long time to get a good set up established.

As far as creating interest for the fish if they are healthy leave well alone. It is a well known fact changes can cause stress in some animals and fish take time to restablish into a new tank therefore too many changes can cause more problems


Keith

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I change it whenever I get sick of the old design or if something happens to cause me to change things.

I had a bad cyanobacteria issue that killed off some of my plants and left bare spots... had to change then. Or like my ten gallon, I just couldn't find a way to arrange things that actually looked okay. I rearranged that a few times within a month.

Just recently, I got some new plants in and decided to do a thorough cleaning of the tank. The major "centerpiece" of my tank stayed the same, but the rockwork moved a bit to accomodate the new plants.

I dunno, in general, I'm still not terribly happy with the majority of my tanks, but I think what's lacking is more plant life... and unfortunatley, I don't have the money to change that at the moment.

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