Comments on: The fish tank cleaning process

By: Scorny

Scorny — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:01:13 +0000

This is the best explanation I have read of the process!!

By: Rurality

Rurality — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:25:45 +0000

That tank really looks great. I started to say, we used to have one just like it — but ours was only 30 gallons. The base looks the same though!

Nice blog!

By: Lisa at Greenbow

Lisa at Greenbow — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:08:17 +0000

All of this must be why I didn’t ever have much luck with a fish tank. Hmmmmm I don’t remember having such a list of work to do. Your tank is beautiful, well worth the work.

By: misti

misti — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:59:04 +0000

You are starting out exactly how my husband started when he was a kid. He went from cichlids and such to our 180 gallon reef tank. :) Keep at it!

By: Young Naturalist J

Young Naturalist J — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:22:43 +0000

monarch- Yeah, they are a ton of work!
Marg- Sure is I am always the one that gets stuck vacuuming it.
The Birdfreak Team- Thank you! One of our families friend gave us this tank and it was sitting in the basement for about a year and then my dad finally said, lets do something with this. Little did we know how much work this turned out to be!
aullori- I just started a small 10 gallon tank in my room because we had some of the fish in the 90 gallon tank bossing the other ones around! It is much easier to take care of.

By: aullori

aullori — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:08:31 +0000

Wow.. I had no idea it was so involved. (Never had a large tank myself) I thought about getting one for my youngest but now… wow, I’m not sure if she is as hard of a worker as you. (Or maybe she just does other things) Great advice! I’ll have her read through this before deciding.

By: The Birdfreak Team

The Birdfreak Team — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:21:28 +0000

Hi there! I think it is great that you are blogging! I like your site and can’t wait you hear about more adventures of yours with Mon@rch and others!

My family had fish before and they are a LOT of work! Fun work, eh?

Good birding to you!

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:33:04 +0000

Thanks for the advice! :)

By: Marg

Marg — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:53:57 +0000

It’s a pain in the butt-oops I mean wonderful advice-this is the major reason I’ve never had a big tank-I hate the siphoning/vacuming business.

This is great advice though!

By: mon@rch

mon@rch — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:37:32 +0000

Wonderful job with this and I never realized how much work went into keeping a fish tank like this! One of these days I will have to start doing fish again!