My natural style tanks and biotopes thread
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These are all lovely looking but that last one is really something...the wood layout is superb!
Beautiful! Were your green terrors juveniles on these pics or is the tank so big that it makes them look smaller? How big are they? Do you have a video of them? It's rare to see people keeping them in groups. Do they still all get along?
How big is this tank and what's the stock.
Nice and busy tank.
How do you keep leaf litter in the quantity and still have clear water? It looks like white oak. When I use it for tadpoles it turns the water brown.
Thanks.
In the pictures the fish were about 4 or 5 inches at the time. I kept them together until they were virtually fully grown.
I had 1 male and 5 females, they work well together in harems like that. I'm not sure if it would have been quite as harmonious with more males.
Here is a video when they were quite a bit bigger.
Thanks.
Looking back at this video there were probably too many species. I would probably stock these type of fish a lot lighter these days. However it was an enjoyable tank.
From memory I had
4 acarichthys heckelii
3 satanoperca pappaterra
4 geophagus dicrozoster
A group of p, scalare(forgot how many I had)
1 hypselecara temporalis
4 hoplosternum thorocata
12 metynnis argenteus.
I may have missed a couple, that tank was a few years back.
To be honest, I remember that set up more Tannin stained than the video shows. Maybe I filmed it after a large water change, I can't remember now.
I find boiling the leaves a few times before adding will remove a lot of the tea colour.Activated carbon will also help remove it from the tank.
Of course, boiling the leaves does remove some of the benifits the leaves provide. I also find boiled leaves break down quicker.
A good leaf to use if your not wanting a brown tinge are beech. Beech give the least tannins from any of the leaves I have used.
