Using Aquarium Leaves | Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine
Aquarium leaves may not be an obvious decoration for home tanks, but they can provide big benefits to your aquascape.
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Leaves for Aquaria…..interesting read
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Thanks for sharing!
Here’s another article on that topic that I find interesting as well:
www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk
I used to put oak leaves in my crayfish tank. I wished I had taken photos at the time!
anyone here who wants to share a pic?
Here’s another article on that topic that I find interesting as well:
Using leaves in your tank
Collect fallen leaves from a nearby forest and use these to decorate your tank.
www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk
I used to put oak leaves in my crayfish tank. I wished I had taken photos at the time!
anyone here who wants to share a pic?
I was going to take a pic of my new sunfish tank this morning after my wife wakes up. Last two tanks I've set up I've used substrate, wood, rocks, plants from my local creek, where most of the fish came from as well. Anyway it's a river bank, every couple inches there is a layer of leaves and twigs and such. I can see how it might go bad in the future, but the paludarium is a few months in now and the only thing that's died is a couple plants I was experimenting with.
This is from back in may
Experiment w Almond Leaves
But I have been using leaves in tanks since the early 90s.
Several species of cichlids prefer to lay eggs on leaves, they can use as a moveable platform to escape danger.
My Andinoacara are one of those.
Experiment w Almond Leaves
But I have been using leaves in tanks since the early 90s.
Several species of cichlids prefer to lay eggs on leaves, they can use as a moveable platform to escape danger.
My Andinoacara are one of those.
I looove leaves in my tanks. I keep some kind of leaf litter in most of my tanks. I'm a little too paranoid to collect from outside though. Live in a dense neighborhood and I'm worried about pesticides and other contaminates, cause lort only knows what people have sprayed or dumped into this area. Otherwise I'd use tons of oak leaves, branches, and other debris from my yard.
I generally use almond leaves of varying sizes that I try to buy in bulk. I remove the disintegrating ones during water changes and add fresh periodically. Here's one of my bichirs chilling on new leaves after I added them. ? I'll have to get a pic of my kuhli loach tank after I add some new ones, as I add a lot more for them since they seem to really enjoy thicker piles of leaves.
I generally use almond leaves of varying sizes that I try to buy in bulk. I remove the disintegrating ones during water changes and add fresh periodically. Here's one of my bichirs chilling on new leaves after I added them. ? I'll have to get a pic of my kuhli loach tank after I add some new ones, as I add a lot more for them since they seem to really enjoy thicker piles of leaves.
Leaves, even rotting (although in the aquarium they probably don’t) cannot result in almost any ammonia. Ammonia (a nitrogenous compound) comes from the metabolism of amino acids and protein, which leaves have very little of.
