Here is a short video of a planted 240 designed to simulate Rio Negro/Casiquiare habitats of the greater Amazon River watershed. The tank was set up about 2 months ago; some of the plants are still quite small. Here are the specifications:
Tank: 240 gallon glass aquarium (8 x 2 x 2)
Filter 1: Proclear 200 sump with 13 W Submariner UV sterilizer, 1800 gph pump
Filter 2: Fluval FX5
Heater: Eheim Jager 300W to supplement heat generated by lights, UV, and sump pump
CO2, 10lb tank, CO2 dosed into sump pump intake
Lighting: Eight 65W 6500/10000K Sunpaq compact fluorescent bulbs (run from 8AM-6PM) and 3 Ecoxotic Panorama LEDs, centered, run 12 hours/day from 7 AM-7PM (to simulate sunrise/sunset). Lighting secured to lid of canopy, approximately 14" above surface of tank.
Substrate: Pool filter sand and highly-weathered wood collected from windward side of local reservoir. Wood extends to surface of tank to simulate flooded standing dead timber.
Plants: New World species, native to South America: Cabomba caroliniana, Mayaca fluviatis, Echinodorus tenellus, Echinodorus sp. "vesuvius", Hydrocotyle leucocephala, Echinodorus bleheri.
Fish: Mostly upper Rio Negro/Casiquiare endemics, but a couple of other Amazon species I couldn't do without:
Pterophyllum altum (3 juvies)
Satanoperca daemon (6 juvies)
Geophagus sp. Tapajos red head (8 juvies) These are not Rio Negro but still Amazonian, so I don't feel too badly about it
Ivanacara adoketa (2) Pair, already about to spawn!
Dicrossus filamentosus (5) 2 males, 3 females
Nannostomus beckfordi (6)
Hyphessobrycon erythrostigma (9)
Hypancistrus sp. L333 (1)
The larger cichlid species are still juveniles so there is plenty of room for growth. I'd like to add a pair of another cool loricariid species from the region but have yet to settle on one. Ideas? Needs to be a wood grazer and nice to plants!
Here's a very short video clip of the tank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLrwJQA9Kgs
Tank: 240 gallon glass aquarium (8 x 2 x 2)
Filter 1: Proclear 200 sump with 13 W Submariner UV sterilizer, 1800 gph pump
Filter 2: Fluval FX5
Heater: Eheim Jager 300W to supplement heat generated by lights, UV, and sump pump
CO2, 10lb tank, CO2 dosed into sump pump intake
Lighting: Eight 65W 6500/10000K Sunpaq compact fluorescent bulbs (run from 8AM-6PM) and 3 Ecoxotic Panorama LEDs, centered, run 12 hours/day from 7 AM-7PM (to simulate sunrise/sunset). Lighting secured to lid of canopy, approximately 14" above surface of tank.
Substrate: Pool filter sand and highly-weathered wood collected from windward side of local reservoir. Wood extends to surface of tank to simulate flooded standing dead timber.
Plants: New World species, native to South America: Cabomba caroliniana, Mayaca fluviatis, Echinodorus tenellus, Echinodorus sp. "vesuvius", Hydrocotyle leucocephala, Echinodorus bleheri.
Fish: Mostly upper Rio Negro/Casiquiare endemics, but a couple of other Amazon species I couldn't do without:
Pterophyllum altum (3 juvies)
Satanoperca daemon (6 juvies)
Geophagus sp. Tapajos red head (8 juvies) These are not Rio Negro but still Amazonian, so I don't feel too badly about it
Ivanacara adoketa (2) Pair, already about to spawn!
Dicrossus filamentosus (5) 2 males, 3 females
Nannostomus beckfordi (6)
Hyphessobrycon erythrostigma (9)
Hypancistrus sp. L333 (1)
The larger cichlid species are still juveniles so there is plenty of room for growth. I'd like to add a pair of another cool loricariid species from the region but have yet to settle on one. Ideas? Needs to be a wood grazer and nice to plants!
Here's a very short video clip of the tank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLrwJQA9Kgs
