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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

Thanks for the descriptions - 10:51 PP, you certainly gave your kids a wonderful experience they'll never forget!

My kids are grown, so this is a hobby just for me. We have many other pets, hence why I'm wary of adding more work, but it's not like I can't do the work. Mostly I'm worried about how the fish will do when we're not home for long stretches of time. As PP said, if there's a power cut, etc. We'd need someone on standby, I suppose?

For any of your tanks smell, PPs?
Despite all the pets we have in the house, I'm very sensitive to smells and try to keep a really clean environment.

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I am one of the ones with a planted aquarium.  It didn't smell from the area.  If you took off the lid and stuck your nose above it, it smelled similar to pond like PP said.

It did smell nasty when you cleaned it, from stirring up all the gunk on the bottom.

As far as traveling goes, because it was a planted tank, we could go a couple days without feeding the fish.  If we went on a short trip, we didn't bother doing anything.  If we went on a longer vacation, we just had the neighbor kid drop in every couple of days.

The biggest hassle was having a tank take up space.[/quote]

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