Easy to keep Rainbowfish biotope

[rainbowfish]

Hi i am thinking about setting up a new tank based on two species of Rainbowfish, but i will not be there to look after it for long periods. So I need help planning an easy to keep planted setup which can be easily looked after when i am not there. In the past I had an planted aquarium but it became over run with algae. Any pointers would be good thanks.

 

[Wisey]

When you say you will not be there to look after it for long periods, do you mean you will not be there and someone else will be looking after it for you, so it needs to be straight forward, or do you mean nobody will be there so it needs to look after itself? Either way, I would say low light low tech is your only option, high tech has a lot going on.

 

[Martin in Holland]

Go low tech, low light with lots of plants.... How big is your tank?

 

[Edvet]

For ultra low tech go find Big Tom's Bucket of mud in the "featured journals"section. Started out as ultra low maintenance, so look in the first pages of the journal.

 

[rainbowfish]

People will be there to look after it, so it needs to be easy and its a 200l Fluval Roma.

 

[Wisey]

Ok, well as Edvet said, there are some good low tech journals out there. There is also a section of the forum dedicated to low tech:

http://www.ukaps.org/forum/forums/el-natural-low-tech.27/

That should give you a good start and once you have a better understanding you will be able to ask more specific questions to fill in any gaps.