twentyleagues, I think it wasn't dyed, just the lighning gave that effect 
Ok, guys, it was a long time since my last post and many things happened since then.
To begin with, Arowana is dead. Funny thing, I think it was acclimated well, 'cause it died ~3-4 weeks after entered my tank. Since it was the biggest fish, most aggressive of them all - to this day - I can't find a normal explanation what could have happened. One morning I woke up and saw Aro on the sand with its tail already eaten. Good thing about the death - shrimps started to go out at the day (because with Aro, they were not hiding only at night and started to look black (I don't think their food changed, I think Amano's are able to somehow mimic the environment to better hide in case of predator like Aro)) and form a group. Serious group. They probably titillated Aro to death.
Secondly, I introduced 2 bristlenoses. I like how they fight for food (mostly the fights go with calabaricus - they just push them with their horns/noses...
Thirdly, I introduced guppies to the tank, since after the last time I gave my predators some of them - 2 small guppies were happily swimming around for few weeks untouched (they are alive to this day...), so I decided it would be nice to see more guppies with colors swimming around. Yeah, good idea, bad execution. I introduced ~4 males with 2 grown up females and ~5 little ones. This happened in the morning and at the evening - they were all swimming, maybe a little scared because of the new environment. Morning - 2 males without tails, 1 female and 2 small guppies from long ago. Good thing though, there were no more casualties and tails on guppies grow like crazy and they are now looking nearly normal. Dumb predators like calabaricus/polypterus (no offense, they're nothing near to the aggressiveness of Aro), gives you the opportunity to (at least for some time) introduce simple fishes like guppies, mollies, etc. and if they aren't eaten in first few days - they probably won't be bothered and be able to live. If you want something which will attack whatever you through in the tank - buy exodons/piranha.
Fourthly, the star of the tank and the fish which likes to pose for photos is obviously poly.
Lastly, since my guppy farm was introduced to predators, I decided to set-up a tank for a single (or 2-3) smallest puffer (and to this day, the tank is empty since no LFS has any atm)
Also, the second small tank was changed and now houses 3 plecos and fugitive filter shrimp from predator tank (few red cherries too)
Lastly, the predator tank has too many algae of many kinds (as you can see - on monte carlo, on anubias...) and I'm thinking what could help to fight them. What about all those liquids which you add into the water to fight the algae? Won't they hurt poly/black knife/calabaricus? what about Amano band?
Ok, guys, it was a long time since my last post and many things happened since then.
To begin with, Arowana is dead. Funny thing, I think it was acclimated well, 'cause it died ~3-4 weeks after entered my tank. Since it was the biggest fish, most aggressive of them all - to this day - I can't find a normal explanation what could have happened. One morning I woke up and saw Aro on the sand with its tail already eaten. Good thing about the death - shrimps started to go out at the day (because with Aro, they were not hiding only at night and started to look black (I don't think their food changed, I think Amano's are able to somehow mimic the environment to better hide in case of predator like Aro)) and form a group. Serious group. They probably titillated Aro to death.
Secondly, I introduced 2 bristlenoses. I like how they fight for food (mostly the fights go with calabaricus - they just push them with their horns/noses...
Thirdly, I introduced guppies to the tank, since after the last time I gave my predators some of them - 2 small guppies were happily swimming around for few weeks untouched (they are alive to this day...), so I decided it would be nice to see more guppies with colors swimming around. Yeah, good idea, bad execution. I introduced ~4 males with 2 grown up females and ~5 little ones. This happened in the morning and at the evening - they were all swimming, maybe a little scared because of the new environment. Morning - 2 males without tails, 1 female and 2 small guppies from long ago. Good thing though, there were no more casualties and tails on guppies grow like crazy and they are now looking nearly normal. Dumb predators like calabaricus/polypterus (no offense, they're nothing near to the aggressiveness of Aro), gives you the opportunity to (at least for some time) introduce simple fishes like guppies, mollies, etc. and if they aren't eaten in first few days - they probably won't be bothered and be able to live. If you want something which will attack whatever you through in the tank - buy exodons/piranha.
Fourthly, the star of the tank and the fish which likes to pose for photos is obviously poly.
Lastly, since my guppy farm was introduced to predators, I decided to set-up a tank for a single (or 2-3) smallest puffer (and to this day, the tank is empty since no LFS has any atm)
Also, the second small tank was changed and now houses 3 plecos and fugitive filter shrimp from predator tank (few red cherries too)
Lastly, the predator tank has too many algae of many kinds (as you can see - on monte carlo, on anubias...) and I'm thinking what could help to fight them. What about all those liquids which you add into the water to fight the algae? Won't they hurt poly/black knife/calabaricus? what about Amano band?
