Justarns loose biotope.

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Right in my little 65l I'm all south american except the anubias:-)
From my little research all are present in Brazil except the bronze corydoras I believe?
Anyone confirm?
One issue is the festivum, when I bought him I don't know how but I got 4" as a Max size, now stanz tells me 8" shish... He will need too work his way through the grow outs to the 300g.
Stock of the 65l
6 red eyes Tetra
3 bronze cory
3 skunk Cory
Pair apistogramma borellii
Lone apistogramma fm macmasteri
Small festivum
Meesi catfish
Small gold nugget plec
2 honeycomb tatia cats.

It's an enjoyable little tank, pics to follow
 
Corydoras aeneus, bronze Cory's are from Guiana region I think. Sounds like a nice tank. Pics.
 
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Right in my little 65l I'm all south american except the anubias:)
From my little research all are present in Brazil except the bronze corydoras I believe?
Anyone confirm?
One issue is the festivum, when I bought him I don't know how but I got 4" as a Max size, now stanz tells me 8" shish... He will need too work his way through the grow outs to the 300g.
Stock of the 65l
6 red eyes Tetra
3 bronze cory
3 skunk Cory
Pair apistogramma borellii
Lone apistogramma fm macmasteri
Small festivum
Meesi catfish
Small gold nugget plec
2 honeycomb tatia cats.

It's an enjoyable little tank, pics to follow

Look forward to the pics.
I think it would take the festivum a very long time to get that big.
 
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Corydoras aeneus, bronze Cory's are from Guiana region I think. Sounds like a nice tank. Pics.

They're found from Colombia to Trinidad, and south to Uraguay/Argentina. Of course this could end up being a species complex, and true C. aeneus' range will end up being significantly smaller than this.


However, if the "honeycomb tatia cats" are Centromochlus perugiae, I'm fairly certain they are restricted to Peru/Ecuador; maybe Colombia? Might be wrong on that.
 
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Excuse the glass, it needs a spruce up inside, maybe due the weekend.
The tank gets 60% pw water changes, the heater is out because it ran up to 31deg last week and wanna keep an eye on it till it's replaced.

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Tank looks great justarn justarn .
 
Excuse the glass, it needs a spruce up inside, maybe due the weekend.
The tank gets 60% pw water changes, the heater is out because it ran up to 31deg last week and wanna keep an eye on it till it's replaced.

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I really like that, what make did you say the tank was?

The pedant in me wants to suggest nixing the internal fluval, and going for a black heater to hide the gubbins!
 
Thanks all, appreciated considering the glass needs a thorough clean.
The tank is a fish pod I believe, I will check when I'm home:-)
 
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