Friller’s fishroom.

[Friller2009]

Deep in exams so been a bit absent from the site but a couple updates:
1. We had a sudden cold snap here in Sydney, was planning on bringing in my fish from outside indoors next week, woke up this morning to 8 degrees. Lost 4 spawns of peacock gudgeons and about 20 or so Melanotaenia goldei. On the plus side I caught a random rainbow from the tub for my peacock gudgeons. I haven’t put any eggs in so interesting to see what it is.
2. Lost my indoor colony of M. fluviatillis, luckily still have my outdoor colony. Filter crashed.
3. The small eyed gudgeon is finally eating pellets! Such a relief.
4. I noticed one of my syno Occellifers is getting pretty chunky. Could it be eggs? The other syno is a pretty normal size. The larger syno has been excavating the back corner of the tank. Nests?

 

[Friller2009]

Chunky syno

Bichir and Eel tail

 

[Friller2009]

New fish time any guesses as to what it is?

 

[Friller2009]

Hello from Gary the gudgeon

Bichir loves chilling in the hornwort

The ater looking goooood

 

[Friller2009]

I feel like the 120 is in need of some more plants. I’m thinking some swords like blheri and marble queen. Any other suggestions? It’s a relatively low tech tank. Just Tryna get that jungle tank that I love. At the moment i’ve Got some Val. Nana and Giant Val, hornwort, Anubias, java fern and two young qld lace plants.

 

[Trouser Cough]

Yep. I take cutting with a couple of nodes and stick it in and they grow well! Got either pothos or syngoniums growing out of almost all of my tanks. In one i’m even growing basil. Excellent nitrate removers

It took a bit to get this figured out as the amount of pothos, amount of light, etc. took a while to get right (turns out if you give them too much light they turn yellow and then black). Now that it's dialed in I am shocked at the volume of NO3 they pull from the tank. I've got a large tank full of carnivores and catfish and the WC cycle was getting a little intrusive but these pathos have made it easy to keep NO3 between 10-20mg/l with a 1x/wk WC. I am amazed and I appreciate the tip. Thank you.