Need A Few Answers Please !

[Wills]

Just to add to what others are saying about the water. An other way of understanding what we are saying - the water might be the most pure in the world, but what happens to the water after its been left for a while. It gets polluted its like if you pooped in a bowl you would see what is going on, but on a more concentrated level. Does that help?

Again to think of it an other way - your tank will be full of water that has a massive amount of ammonia in it which is kind of like putting you in a glass box full of carbon monoxide it will kill you as the ammonia will kill your fish. How you have kept fish alive in there for 2-3 years is beyond me and I really do think you are incredibly lucky.

No fish can get rid of the chemicals in the water, no fish eats poo all that happens is they swim past/over it and the current breaks it up and it falls through the gravel.

How often do you do water change? Do you do water changes?

I still stand by my advice of getting rid of your current fish and starting again.

 

[Curiosity101]

Wills those fish haven't been in there for 2-3 years. The tank has been 'functional' for 2-3 years. Looking at those pictures the fish are really really young at the moment.

Which is why I've asked about the dimensions. Cause comparing fish size to the tank size, I reckon the dimensions 91.5.x33x38.5 are in cm not inches. If they are in cm then of course the tank isn't even slightly suitable for any of those fish.

However a filter must be added for any fish to live in it. (Unless of course you go with the heavily planted lightly stocked option)

 

[Tropic]

Yeah I get your poop idea, kinda...

How you have kept fish alive in there for 2-3 years is beyond me and I really do think you are incredibly lucky. - To be perfectly honest I don't know how I do it, I just perform daily routine checks on the tank, feed daily, make sure all the fish are doing good, no signs of disease, temperaturs good....that stuff man. The longest amount of time I can recall in keeping a tropical fish in the tank is...2 years. WITH doing the above daily checks and routines it wasn't problematic and the creature seemed more than happy to live in the tank.


How often do you do water change? Do you do water changes? - Here's the thing and this is where I just am flabbogasted......I haven't changed my water in nearly 4 months and my tank is still sparkling clean and the fish are still doing same. What AM I doing right without the filter or need for anything else? I know I need a filter but either the tank is too good to be true with my routines i'm doing or maybe it isn't natural as to why my tank hasn;t been cleaned for nearly a quarter of a year. Hmmm....suggestions? Have you ever experienced something like this @ CUROUS?

Oh, the tank is in inches, sorry my dimensions are little foggy.

 

[Big_eyes]

This is such a wind up! I don't know why anyones bothering to reply !

 

[Wills]

Your doing nothing right at all it is just luck daily checks count for nothing. You are doing nothing right it is 100% luck nothing else at all the way you are keeping your fish is cruel 100% cruel. Sorry to say it but I give up

 

[hihi100202]

This is where i think: "People get put in jail every day for cruelty to cats and dogs, but not fish! Whats wrong with our little fishes?"

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[erk628]

This is where i think: "People get put in jail every day for cruelty to cats and dogs, but not fish! Whats wrong with our little fishes?"

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Tropic, have you read a single article with the links that have been posted in this thread for you?

 

[GAB99]

woot woot! my turn!

oky dokey as stated above you are doing everything bad, but i think the fish have been surviving for so long with out a filter is because of the tiny amount of the good bacteria in the gravel. what i would suggest is to get rid of the soon to be big catfish and the tester goldfish (how many plecos do you have?
) and if you have more than 2 plecos, get rid of them till you have 2. then buy a filter capable of filtering the tank and put some of the gravel in the back of it or if its a canister or sump then put it where the manual says where the good bacteria live. you will alo be needing a water test kit as well. this is so you can check the water stats in your tank and to maintain your tank better, this will alo help in future cycle processes and it will help to determine when you can get more fish. also your fish have been fine without a water change is because most fish can withstand nitrates up to 800ppm.

by the way the filter thing will only work if the tank has had at least 1 fish in it for at least a month.

welcome to the forum! dont worry most people who join here do bad stuff like this all the time. heck even i did it to a degree. but i think your getting the brunt of this is because you THOUGHT you were doing good. dont be dicouraged though!