How long do you keep your planted tank up without a major redo or rescape?

[NC AL]

I am new to this side of the hobby and am curious. In reef keeping a tank isn't really considered heathy and established until it has reached a year. Once reef tank is healthy and running smoothly the trend is to just let it ride without major changes. Coral takes several months to years to start looking good. In my playing around with planted tanks the trend seems to be to break tanks down much more frequently. Plants grow much more quickly so I guess a planted tank can reach its maximum potential in a few months.

So what is the average duration of your planted tanks? What is the longest you have gone without any major changes?

 

[SmartAlec13]

I am still new to the game, only started mid-2024, so I don't have a ton of data points for this. I kept my tank going for almost 1 year, then I moved so I took that as an opportunity to rescape (and I was itching to do it). Now it's been less than a year and I already want to rescape. I would have if not for trying to figure out the hurdles for where & how to house my fish temporarily. So I last maybe a year before I want to rescape - but I think a lot of that has to do with my lack of experience. The look I plan for (twice now lol) is not what it ends up looking like, and tends to be a mess because I just really like replanting my plants lol.