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I have a 29gal comunity tank that has been set up for about 3 years. None of the fish are growing! I have had 2 golden gouromis and a pleco for the whole time, the gouromis have grown a little but aren't full size, but the pleco hasn't grown at all, he's about 2" long. But I have tons of algea for him to eat but he dosn't grow. I have had other fish in the tank that didn't grow:tetras, silver dolars, rosy barbs. Whats the problem, and is it bad for the fish to be stunted, I don't realy mind because they don't take up to much space.
Anyone know whats going on?

anouther thing thats wierd about this tank is that, When i got my oscar tank I got sort of lazy about water changes and algea scrubing. So there is tons of algea in the tank(I don't mind, it looks cool). But the tank is cyristal clear, and I can't even remember the last time I did A water change. I test the waterfor amonea and nitriets but it always comes out fine. Its also been a realy long time since I had any fish die. Is the large amount of algea just taking cair of the nitrites and amonea? Oh and most of the fish eat algea so I don't have to feed them that often. Have I created the perfect ecosystem ? Or is this all going to fall apart if I don't do a water change soon?

well, i'm kind of lazy too so if it "ain't broke" I don't fix it. some small water changes probably wouldn't hurt though....and yea I think algae is probably helping out.

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Joe
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