I agree with the angels and acaras thing. I'd actually just get 1 male, maybe 3 if you want.
“Large” fish, planted tank?
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Its not just digging, the EBAs will sometimes shred the leaves of plants as well, sometimes pulling on and uprooting the whole plant to drag it across the tank in a courtship display. The more of them in the tank the more trouble you will have with plants ime.
If you look at the design I posted, the plan is to have all the stem plants behind a layer of hardscape, and then covered in scatter gravel and smaller rocks. It will be vallisneria and Amazon swords that will be well established before adding fish, hopefully all goes well
If it were me (after finding about your recent move to Australia part) , I'd start an Australian biotope tank.
There are so many unique and interesting species there.
Its kind of what I've done here in Panama.
I moved from the US to Panama, and have a biotope tank based on the species of a certain stretch of river in the eastern part of the country, those that I collect myself.
It's a challenge, but one I find rewarding, much more rewarding than just buying something at a LFS.
Besides that........
Here, all the LFSs have either African cichlid species, or a few types of S Americans like Oscars, because that's what the local population seems to want.
Of course there is a large Asian population that keep Arawanas, but my 180 gal is too small for that, and the water parameters in the part of the country where I live, don't really match what they need.
There are so many unique and interesting species there.
Its kind of what I've done here in Panama.
I moved from the US to Panama, and have a biotope tank based on the species of a certain stretch of river in the eastern part of the country, those that I collect myself.
It's a challenge, but one I find rewarding, much more rewarding than just buying something at a LFS.
Besides that........
Here, all the LFSs have either African cichlid species, or a few types of S Americans like Oscars, because that's what the local population seems to want.
Of course there is a large Asian population that keep Arawanas, but my 180 gal is too small for that, and the water parameters in the part of the country where I live, don't really match what they need.
Hm
Hmmm that’s something I’ve not thought about, I’ll have a chat with some of the stores about what sort of native freshwater fish they have here!
Definitely rainbows, maybe you can find some kind of gudgeon as a centerpiece but I don't know if they'd eat rainbows
Yes there are fascinating rainbows, gudgeons and gobies, and I believe there are endemic cichlid convergent equivalents there too, just not actual cichlids.
I know here in Panama, LFSs are not allowed to sell local Panamanian fish, so for me to get them, I needed to either catch them myself, or get local fishermen to catch them for me, which was what I did at first.
But since then, I learned to use a cast net, and have become obsessed with collecting, every couple weeks.
I know here in Panama, LFSs are not allowed to sell local Panamanian fish, so for me to get them, I needed to either catch them myself, or get local fishermen to catch them for me, which was what I did at first.
But since then, I learned to use a cast net, and have become obsessed with collecting, every couple weeks.
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could probably help, he has a good knowledge of the aussie aquarium scene and knows some good shops that ship.
Go native man. Get a bunch of galaxias, maybe trouts they get to a bout 25/30cm but you have so many other nice galaxias that we can’t get here on the east coast. If you’re able get some Pygmy perch. Awesome fish, so colourful in Blackwater and almost impossible to kill.
I’ve got some vids of my tropical natives on my YT channel.
If you’re going tropical I would recommend a species of eel tail cat, Hyrtli or rendahli are most common, some gudgeons such as snakeheads, sleepy cod, butis, prinobutis, sinuous or purple spots. A grunter - this will be harder to find- but coal grunters are good, same goes for jade and silver perch. Bass and estuary perch are also a good choice.
Rainbows are also a great option. I mainly keep rainbows, so many great options. Blheri, Trifasciata, fluviatilis, Duboulayi and ANGFA are some of my favourites
Not to sure on how to get some of these in tassie though. Don’t really know anyone down their, Chris at allfish2u is a great guy, he ships. He’s located in western Sydney and is one of if not the best LFS in Australia.
I’ve got some vids of my tropical natives on my YT channel.
If you’re going tropical I would recommend a species of eel tail cat, Hyrtli or rendahli are most common, some gudgeons such as snakeheads, sleepy cod, butis, prinobutis, sinuous or purple spots. A grunter - this will be harder to find- but coal grunters are good, same goes for jade and silver perch. Bass and estuary perch are also a good choice.
Rainbows are also a great option. I mainly keep rainbows, so many great options. Blheri, Trifasciata, fluviatilis, Duboulayi and ANGFA are some of my favourites
Not to sure on how to get some of these in tassie though. Don’t really know anyone down their, Chris at allfish2u is a great guy, he ships. He’s located in western Sydney and is one of if not the best LFS in Australia.
