This is just something to think about:
The book I was quoting was from the 19th Edition entitled, "Exotic Aquarium Fishes," a 595 page book written by Dr. William Innes. The first Edition was in 1938, and this Edition was written when he was 93 years old in 1966. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Innes
I am mentioning it because that is the book I was brought up on doing Tropical Fish Aquariums as a child, and we had 6 Tanks. They were working beautifully! The 29 Gallon had 26 Angelfish we raised, and the guppy tank was so loaded we used to let the Angelfish feast on guppies.
1. There is no mention in this book of a Water Test Kit. I have never used one for an aquarium. I just let the Marineland Eclipse 2 BioFilter on my 30 gallon Tall do it's job, and pay for a new $1.00 to $2.00 fish when they croak. LOL
2. No regular water change was ever done to aquarium tanks when I was young! We just put in cooled boiled water whenever the water evaporated. The Black Skirts lived 8 years without ever getting the water changed in their tanks.
3. I raised bettas, I even had a salt water aquarium.
4. Our filter system was the floss and carbon side filters that were changed ever 2-4 weeks. We vacuumed the tanks with one of those battery powered vacuums every few months. Nothing else.
5. We had plenty of plants.
6. Fish population, the different tanks recommended by this 93 year old in this book are amazing! He suggested 11 different scenarios - 5 gallon - 17 smallish mixed-sized fish, 15-20 gallon 46 mixed-sized fish, 5 gallon 19 small-sized fish, 5 gallon 12 fishes a little larger, 7 gallon 8 fishes still larger, 10 gallon 31 small fishes 10 gallon 15 fishes a little larger average size, 20 gallon 60 fishes mostly smaller size, 20 gallon 37 larger fishes, 40 gallon 78 fishes mostly medium size 78 LOL!, 40 gallon 65 mostly large fish
Concepts that in today's standard we think are CRAZY!
I only started changing water every week coming back to the hobby about 12 years ago, and reading the modern literature. 1 1/2 years ago I lost 8 Angels that I had raised due to the City changing to Chloramine.
I don't know. I think some people make things too complicated for a person wanting to start a 10 gallon tank.
The book I was quoting was from the 19th Edition entitled, "Exotic Aquarium Fishes," a 595 page book written by Dr. William Innes. The first Edition was in 1938, and this Edition was written when he was 93 years old in 1966. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Innes
I am mentioning it because that is the book I was brought up on doing Tropical Fish Aquariums as a child, and we had 6 Tanks. They were working beautifully! The 29 Gallon had 26 Angelfish we raised, and the guppy tank was so loaded we used to let the Angelfish feast on guppies.
1. There is no mention in this book of a Water Test Kit. I have never used one for an aquarium. I just let the Marineland Eclipse 2 BioFilter on my 30 gallon Tall do it's job, and pay for a new $1.00 to $2.00 fish when they croak. LOL
2. No regular water change was ever done to aquarium tanks when I was young! We just put in cooled boiled water whenever the water evaporated. The Black Skirts lived 8 years without ever getting the water changed in their tanks.
3. I raised bettas, I even had a salt water aquarium.
4. Our filter system was the floss and carbon side filters that were changed ever 2-4 weeks. We vacuumed the tanks with one of those battery powered vacuums every few months. Nothing else.
5. We had plenty of plants.
6. Fish population, the different tanks recommended by this 93 year old in this book are amazing! He suggested 11 different scenarios - 5 gallon - 17 smallish mixed-sized fish, 15-20 gallon 46 mixed-sized fish, 5 gallon 19 small-sized fish, 5 gallon 12 fishes a little larger, 7 gallon 8 fishes still larger, 10 gallon 31 small fishes 10 gallon 15 fishes a little larger average size, 20 gallon 60 fishes mostly smaller size, 20 gallon 37 larger fishes, 40 gallon 78 fishes mostly medium size 78 LOL!, 40 gallon 65 mostly large fish
Concepts that in today's standard we think are CRAZY!
I only started changing water every week coming back to the hobby about 12 years ago, and reading the modern literature. 1 1/2 years ago I lost 8 Angels that I had raised due to the City changing to Chloramine.
I don't know. I think some people make things too complicated for a person wanting to start a 10 gallon tank.