30gal Monocirrhus polyacanthus Amazonic Biotope

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

wow! very nice. I wanna do this now. lol. what type of wood did u use? what did u do to prepare it?

 

[Lizardking]

Awesome tank! What do you feed the leaffish?

 

[Roberto G]

Like i said ...so talented... good luck.. looking great .... good luck Roberto

Thanks a lot Liz!! I hope I can be as good as you and many other members from this forum!

Awesome looking tank man! I love it! I want to try to make something like this!

I really recomend you to build something like this!! It is very easy to keep all the parameters good for them, the only hard part is to keep pH as low as it can be (around 5.6 degrees), but with a quick pH handling investigation this turns out to be easy! I used a lot of HOME MADE or NATURAL methods to low the pH (coconut fiber, the indian almond leafs, and other natural chemicals).

wow! very nice. I wanna do this now. lol. what type of wood did u use? what did u do to prepare it?

Well first of all.. Thanks!!! uhmm I didn't use a wood in specific! I just walked over my garden and found some thin dry branches, I took them home and took away any spiderweb or insect that was attached to the branches, then with some water I cleaned the branches and a huge amount of dirt was removed! Then I just introduce the branches on the tank!

Awesome tank! What do you feed the leaffish?

Thanks for your comment!! My leaffishes are eating Live Fishes only, I give them about two 2.5cm Mosquito Fish, or "oluminas" as we know them here at Costa Rica, to each leaf, the leafs are about 5cm long! So they are eating daily their own weight in food! lol pretty nasty hunters!! Oh, feeder fish are gut loaded with cichlid food that's it!!

 

[~ocean]

very cool! I remeber I tried something like that before too...

~ocean

 

[Roberto G]

do you have any photo of your proyect?

 

[Roberto G]

More photos!! Enjoy! BTW, I took out the wood because it was getting very dirty , I will put some more soon, but I first need a good cleaner pleco

 

[fish_n_vw]

Your tank is awsome, your fish look healthy and you are a insperation. It one point I did a boreo biotope, it was a lot of work doing all the research and sadly I have no pics of it. But you have done awsome work here and you should be really proud.

 

[sizors]

the prep you did shows, awesome set up.

 

[Roberto G]

Your tank is awsome, your fish look healthy and you are a insperation. It one point I did a boreo biotope, it was a lot of work doing all the research and sadly I have no pics of it. But you have done awsome work here and you should be really proud.

Oh man! You rock! Thanks a lot for your words!!! I get really happy when you all take some time to comment at this post! For me every comment is very valuable!!! Thanks again! And I hope you can keep following any update of this proyect!

the prep you did shows, awesome set up.

Thanks a lot! Must of all was a very long period of studying as much as possible this fishes! I'm still learning how to keep them at a fish tank!

 

[Roberto G]

Hi MFK's! I was wondering... Do you know about someone who have a proyect similar to the one I have, or at least with leaf fish on a tank? I just want to know if you have to do something extra to make leaffish spawn!

Thanks!