As of late I have been advocating the idea of a "Convict Paradise". The idea of housing some variety of the Amatitlania family in a lot larger tank than normally given to the species with lots of non cichlids.
I decided to take my own advice and set one up in a 125gal tank. Filtration at the moment is a pair of Aquaclear 110's, also there is a Ehiem 400 air pump and Ehiem heater.
The tank will be low tech planted. Root tabs, Flourish fertilizer, and will have Finnex 24/7 lights, atm its Fluval aquasky led lights.
Beginning stock:
all fish are around an inch in size
Honduran Red Points 2m2f
Firemouth X8
Red Eye tetras X20
Porthole catfish X4
Bushynose pleco X2 Blue eyes albino
Swordtails 3m6f Albino red
They will be feed NLS products from Flakes to Ultra Red, Float, and Algea Max.
This is a FTS of phase 1, next payday I plan on putting more plants, maybe more driftwood.
These two seem to be doing the initial steps in pairing up
A few Firemouth
We little plecos
Swordtails are not so Sword, more like Daggertails
And getting pics of Tetras.. well a couple in each pic are not zooming around and can see them
We little catfish
I decided to take my own advice and set one up in a 125gal tank. Filtration at the moment is a pair of Aquaclear 110's, also there is a Ehiem 400 air pump and Ehiem heater.
The tank will be low tech planted. Root tabs, Flourish fertilizer, and will have Finnex 24/7 lights, atm its Fluval aquasky led lights.
Beginning stock:
all fish are around an inch in size
Honduran Red Points 2m2f
Firemouth X8
Red Eye tetras X20
Porthole catfish X4
Bushynose pleco X2 Blue eyes albino
Swordtails 3m6f Albino red
They will be feed NLS products from Flakes to Ultra Red, Float, and Algea Max.
This is a FTS of phase 1, next payday I plan on putting more plants, maybe more driftwood.
These two seem to be doing the initial steps in pairing up
A few Firemouth
We little plecos
Swordtails are not so Sword, more like Daggertails
And getting pics of Tetras.. well a couple in each pic are not zooming around and can see them
We little catfish