my experience with an un-experimental test lol?

[zapbap99]

So... I had a QT tank i used with copper 10 gallons, i used to have fish in it as it was a QT. I dosed a lot of copper. one day i got bored and threw some chaeto overgrowing in my main display it had to be a golf ball size or less not packed tight. i then got lazy to keep the Qt up because i have not used it in a long time so i cut the heater, filter and let it sit stagnent and Id say the water was around 55-60 degrees, my inside temp upstairs is around 68 degrees give or take. I havent touched it for months or changed water.. Nothing lol. as of 5/22 is my first time touching it in 3 months it has evaporated 3-4 gallons or so. I am finally moving it this chaeto has grown so much i dont even know how to be honest the salanity was thru the roof around 1.3+ couldnt even tell you. I was always told chaeto couldnt live in copper or cold water or with no light or nutrients? Maybe mine just liked it lol here is a pic i took 2 months ago of it. I should have taken one earlier before i broke it down to put something else there, but yea idk just my story thought it was cool maybe anyone else has experienced this

 

[Larry L]

Interesting accidental experiment! I think a lot of the things we keep in our tanks are way more resilient and hardy than we give them credit for. Spend enough time in the forums and you can probably see that there are lots of people who are endlessly tweaking and adjusting and treating things in an attempt to keep everything in "perfect" conditions (even when what we think is "perfect" might be far from the truth), and it seems to me like a lot of the failures people have are due to chasing numbers and messing with things too much, instead of watching and learning what changes make things do better as opposed to making things worse.

 

[zapbap99]

Interesting accidental experiment! I think a lot of the things we keep in our tanks are way more resilient and hardy than we give them credit for. Spend enough time in the forums and you can probably see that there are lots of people who are endlessly tweaking and adjusting and treating things in an attempt to keep everything in "perfect" conditions (even when what we think is "perfect" might be far from the truth), and it seems to me like a lot of the failures people have are due to chasing numbers and messing with things too much, instead of watching and learning what changes make things do better as opposed to making things worse.

my first "actual" experiment will be a 2x 5 gallon tank a string of chaeto in each one with no aeration and dosing no3 and one with aeration dosing nothing seeing which one will accomplish faster growth under sunlight