I've been snowed in for two days, so I threw together a synopsis of three of my tanks.
Biotope: Suriname River
Stock: 6 S. leucosticta, pair of Geophagus brokopondo, 24 Hemigrammus erythrozonus, and 10 Pristella maxillaris.
I'm a huge fan of single species tetra shoals, but I decided to try a lopsided two species group. They segregate themselves fairly strongly by species, which makes it kind of cool to watch.
Full tank shot (before adding the tetra)
My camera does terrible full tank shots, so here's a video that shows it a lot better...
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/z3/edburress/?action=view¤t=MOV07593.mp4
S. leucosticta
video of pair with fry
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/z3/edburress/?action=view¤t=MOV07593.mp4
Geophagus brokopondo
Biotope: Rio Uruguay
Stock: pair of Gymnogeophagus balzanii and 10 fry (well not anymore)
This one is basically being used to grow out the fry that I left in there. I'll probably keep 2 pairs of them and move the rest. I'm hoping to add some tetra or livebearers eventually, just haven't settled on what type.
Full tank shot (the tank had pikes in it before, I wouldn't normally scape it like this for G. balzanii, I just liked it so I left it)
Video
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/...us balzanii/?action=view¤t=MOV07213.mp4
some fry that I removed
Biotope: Rio Cuareim
Stock: 3 Crenicichla celdiochilus, 2 Crenicichla minuano, 1 Sorubim lima
This is tank is for breeding C. celidochilus. The C. minuano are basically dithers and before the "winter period" is over, I'm going to remove the catfish.
Video
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/...elidochilus/?action=view¤t=MOV07215.mp4
Crenicichla celidochilus
Crenicichla minuano
Thanks for looking. Any comments are welcome.
Ed
Biotope: Suriname River
Stock: 6 S. leucosticta, pair of Geophagus brokopondo, 24 Hemigrammus erythrozonus, and 10 Pristella maxillaris.
I'm a huge fan of single species tetra shoals, but I decided to try a lopsided two species group. They segregate themselves fairly strongly by species, which makes it kind of cool to watch.
Full tank shot (before adding the tetra)
My camera does terrible full tank shots, so here's a video that shows it a lot better...
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/z3/edburress/?action=view¤t=MOV07593.mp4
S. leucosticta
video of pair with fry
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/z3/edburress/?action=view¤t=MOV07593.mp4
Geophagus brokopondo
Biotope: Rio Uruguay
Stock: pair of Gymnogeophagus balzanii and 10 fry (well not anymore)
This one is basically being used to grow out the fry that I left in there. I'll probably keep 2 pairs of them and move the rest. I'm hoping to add some tetra or livebearers eventually, just haven't settled on what type.
Full tank shot (the tank had pikes in it before, I wouldn't normally scape it like this for G. balzanii, I just liked it so I left it)
Video
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/...us balzanii/?action=view¤t=MOV07213.mp4
some fry that I removed
Biotope: Rio Cuareim
Stock: 3 Crenicichla celdiochilus, 2 Crenicichla minuano, 1 Sorubim lima
This is tank is for breeding C. celidochilus. The C. minuano are basically dithers and before the "winter period" is over, I'm going to remove the catfish.
Video
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/...elidochilus/?action=view¤t=MOV07215.mp4
Crenicichla celidochilus
Crenicichla minuano
Thanks for looking. Any comments are welcome.
Ed
That C. celidochilus is insane!
