Logging the pond and it's inhabitants

[headbanger_jib]

Well here's a small update of the pond and a few pics of the growouts

Here's a small video of the pond, the pond has become pea soup coloured, shouldn't have trimmed the filter plants in peak summer, the plants grow slowly and algae takes full advantage of this.

Also I have noticed that my south American arowana, I shall no longer call em silver because they aren't silver at all, have gone a darker bronze colored.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Also I have noticed that my south American arowana, I shall no longer call em silver because they aren't silver at all, have gone a darker bronze colored.

When we didn't have a roof over our pavilion for a few months (after hurricane Irma 2017), our silver aros too became dark-topped, black top to bronze lower to still silver on the sides and tummy.

Almost everyone who comments about our silvers as they are normally kept (deep shade, dim light) thinks or supposes ours are albino, so pale they are.

Sun light and UV, I guess, make all this difference.

IDK much about aro tanning but I hear people talking about it and suppose this is a phenomenon from the same root cause.

 

[headbanger_jib]

Let the water clear up, will share a video of the bigger fellas, they're a dark bronze completely.

Yes sunlight does wonders for the colors of these fish.

My super red is in a dark tank that receives light only for an hour or so in a day, sometimes not even that, and the tank is in a dark room

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Let the water clear up, will share a video of the bigger fellas, they're a dark bronze completely.

Top to bottom? Really? Wow. I'd like to see that indeed.

My super red is in a dark tank that receives light only for an hour or so in a day, sometimes not even that, and the tank is in a dark room

Why? Is this ensuring its super red coloration somehow? Is it red anyhow? Sorry, I know next to nothing about this.

 

[headbanger_jib]

Why? Is this ensuring its super red coloration somehow? Is it red anyhow? Sorry, I know next to nothing about this.

I don't believe tanning to be good for the fish in the long run, blaring bright lights for hours together, almost like the torture technique.

Atm it is orange, am planning to release it into the pond once it starts eating fish fillet, and hoping that the natural sun might make it red.

 

[headbanger_jib]

Well it's almost been an year since I got my albino osteoglossum bicirrhosum.

Well here's an update of them in the 250 gallon 3rd July 2020

This was exactly a few days before I released the super red and the largest of the albino to the pond.

8th July

 

[headbanger_jib]

Still gotta do something about pea soup colored water

 

[twentyleagues]

Still gotta do something about pea soup colored water

Are you running uv?

 

[headbanger_jib]

Are you running uv?

No, but I run an aquaponics system, it needs a boost, which I will get to in a few days

 

[twentyleagues]

No, but I run an aquaponics system, it needs a boost, which I will get to in a few days

You getting new plants? You should post a pic of the aquaponic filter!