Everything survived. Plants grew out of control and the surface had about an inch thick layer of duckweed and frogbit.
Last week I recovered the tank. It was a mess. I had to remove the soil/sand substrate to make it light enough to move. I put all the fish in a bucket. Several rainbow, greenside, darters, various dace, a sucker, and a few other species. The ride in the bucket to my dismay killed most of the fish. The sucker, 4 rainbow cloud minnows, 2 longnosed dace, and a couple unidentified darters survived. Oh yeah. One snail also survived.
Tonight my package of 60 pounds of Eco-complete arrived and all the inerts for my Fluval 305. A few plants managed to survive the week floating without substrate. Some were just so bad I trashed them.
Here are the pics of what it looks like tonight. So glad to have it back.
This is the original before I had to unexpectadely abandon the tank.
My favorite fish. The Common Sucker. He has flourished since day one.
Full Tank Shot Now. Shell of it's former glory but we will get back there.
Driftwood Centerpiece w/Java Moss and Rainbow Clouds and Dace swimming around it.
Unidentified Darter
Dace and Rainbow Clouds
Side view of tank. I need more fish desperately. Tank is bare.
On a sidenote. I will never do another soil based/Walstad/El Natural type tank again unless it is 29 gallons or less. Very messy to deal with and I am assumubg the bigger the tank the harder to manager as far as the mess goes. But as I said. Maintanance wise, everything survived 3 months unattended and the plants flourished. So it is not a bad system. Just potentially too messy.
Edited by lozgod, 20 January 2010 - 12:39 AM.