Question about a fishtank in my office cubical

In article , js1 wrote:
On 2005-01-13, Richard wrote:

Or Killifish. Or catfish or tetras or rasboras or pencilfish or,
um, anything thta makes sense for the tank size.


I thought those fish (aside from the cats) required water circulating
for oxygen. The constraint I'm reading from the original poster is
basically nothing that could cause any noise.

They require oxygen, but the water doesn't need to be circulating.

I'm staring at a one litre tank right now with 2 harlequins, 2 pencils and
a glowline rasbora and a bunch of baby crypts. No filter.

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Here is a photo of my 6 gal betta tank at work.

http://www.nippyfish.net/6%20Gal.jpg

It's an Eclipse cycled with a power filter w/ biowheel, 25 watt heater
and air-stone. The air pump does give off a very faint sound but there
is a great benefit to cycling your tank even if it's "just for a
betta." If you end up opting for an uncycled tank you'll be spending
more time doing 100% water changes and testing for ammonia and
adjusting pH. Being cycled I only have to test nitrate at water changes
once a week and change out only 20% of the water. On occasion I'll run
the whole gambit of tests to make sure everything in on track, which it
always is. ;-)

On 2005-01-13, Richard wrote:

They require oxygen, but the water doesn't need to be circulating.

I'm staring at a one litre tank right now with 2 harlequins, 2 pencils and
a glowline rasbora and a bunch of baby crypts. No filter.


So your plants produce enough oxygen for the fish to survive?


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In article .com,
wrote:
Here is a photo of my 6 gal betta tank at work.

http://www.nippyfish.net/6%20Gal.jpg

It's an Eclipse cycled with a power filter w/ biowheel, 25 watt heater
and air-stone. The air pump does give off a very faint sound but there
is a great benefit to cycling your tank even if it's "just for a
betta." If you end up opting for an uncycled tank you'll be spending
more time doing 100% water changes and testing for ammonia and
adjusting pH. Being cycled I only have to test nitrate at water changes
once a week and change out only 20% of the water. On occasion I'll run
the whole gambit of tests to make sure everything in on track, which it
always is. ;-)

Niiice.


I've gone super low tech. No filter no heater no light:

http://images.aquaria.net/tanks/rjs/hex2-1/jan1305/

Some Farfards aquatic soil mixed with profile sealed with 1.5"
of white sand with 2" of pea gravel over that covered with small
black river rocks. Not for any good reason, it was just at hand.

There's some crypt (probbaly lutea) and some java moss. And two
rocks. I change most of the water once a week and only feed live
food.

It sits in the corned of my desk and is really supposed to be
an xmas prezzie for my folks. Any day now...

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In article , js1 wrote:
On 2005-01-13, Richard wrote:

They require oxygen, but the water doesn't need to be circulating.

I'm staring at a one litre tank right now with 2 harlequins, 2 pencils and
a glowline rasbora and a bunch of baby crypts. No filter.


So your plants produce enough oxygen for the fish to survive?

The plants are seedlings, or rahter tiny plants that grew from pinhead
sized spurs off a crypt rhizome. They were supposed to be there
"a day or so", but that was back last October.

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Richard, Your betta is adorable. He reminds me of my old betta, Bone.
He was always my favorite.

http://www.nippyfish.net/Boneswimming.jpg

With no heater doesn't he get too cold or is your office like mine,
80=B0F all the time?

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Richard, Your betta is adorable. He reminds me of my old betta, Bone.
He was always my favorite.

http://www.nippyfish.net/Boneswimming.jpg


Cool. Not bad for a betta from an LFS. Here's a better pic:

http://images.aquaria.net/fish/betta...1/DSCF0015.jpg

Here's the other betta I had in there fr a while (not an LFS fish) but
there wasn't enough contrast between him and the dark surroundings (so
he's back in a big jar).

http://images.aquaria.net/fish/betta.../DSCF0008s.jpg

With no heater doesn't he get too cold or is your office like mine,
80F all the time?

You guessed it :-)



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