My 190 gallon
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From the colors that your apistogramma are displaying they are in a mini amazonian habitat. Please enter your aquarium in POTM
Thanks everyone.
I think my favorite fish in the tank is one of the four Bolivian rams, it has started to color up nicely.
Food wise I'm giving them frozen red mosquito larvae, artemia and some frozen vegetable food made for algae eating fish.
Also algae pellets and occasionally some granules.
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I think my favorite fish in the tank is one of the four Bolivian rams, it has started to color up nicely.
Food wise I'm giving them frozen red mosquito larvae, artemia and some frozen vegetable food made for algae eating fish.
Also algae pellets and occasionally some granules.
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Because of the ottos and Amano shrimps being such a good algae clean up crew, I decided to bring the lights up to 12 hours.
But today I noticed 3-4 tiny spots spread across the tank with black beard algae. I only found them on the leafs of the anubias.
I guess I got greedy, but I've reduced it to 8 hours now, and I'll keep and eye out to see if it spreads more.
I might bring it down to 6 if it spreads.
If that doesn't work, I'll use my nano tank and keep one or two black Molly's and starve them for a few days and then release them into this tank and not feed this tank for a day or two.
Hopefully the Molly's will eat the BBA.
I'm not interested in Siamese algae eaters, as it would be difficult to catch them again without stressing the other fish.
Does this sound as a reasonable plan?
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But today I noticed 3-4 tiny spots spread across the tank with black beard algae. I only found them on the leafs of the anubias.
I guess I got greedy, but I've reduced it to 8 hours now, and I'll keep and eye out to see if it spreads more.
I might bring it down to 6 if it spreads.
If that doesn't work, I'll use my nano tank and keep one or two black Molly's and starve them for a few days and then release them into this tank and not feed this tank for a day or two.
Hopefully the Molly's will eat the BBA.
I'm not interested in Siamese algae eaters, as it would be difficult to catch them again without stressing the other fish.
Does this sound as a reasonable plan?
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Nice small fish rock!! I've begun to appreciate large tanks and tiny fish. You should add some of the rare barilius sp. they're absolutely awesome
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I'm thinking of adding some preacox rainbow fish. The dwarf one with neon blue scales and red fins. I really like them. Not a South American fish, but I don't care.
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Your tank is absolutely stunning! I hope I can have one that looks even half as good some day. All of mine are bleh.
Another little rainbow to look at are the blue eyes like pseudomugil gertrudae and pseudomugil tenellus
They look like little fairies to me.
Another little rainbow to look at are the blue eyes like pseudomugil gertrudae and pseudomugil tenellus
They look like little fairies to me.Those rainbows look very interesting, unusual shape IMO.
And thanks for the compliment, I think if one chooses few plant species and have enough of them, it's not difficult to make it look good, as it is the plants that makes the tank.
And in the case of the driftwood I just got lucky, I ordered 15 pieces from supplier without seeing them and kept 8-9 that went together nicely.
I have about 20-25 java ferns, 30 anubias nana and 10-13 anubias congensis.
And I try to keep them together and not mix them in between each other.
On the left side of the tank I keep most of the anubias nana at the bottom and all of the java fern on top.
Right side I choose anubias nana at the bottom again and congensis behind them, since they are taller the stems are hidden by the nana.
And on top of the wood on the right side I put 2 anubias nana again to hide the 2nd heater, and they are not tall plants so they won't be blown away by the filter output.
I'm considering adding more plants to perhaps tie the two "islands" together, but I'm not quite ready to temper with it right now.
I think my focus now is to maintain this and making sure all the fish are healthy and happy.
And I have a plan to redo my nano tank, I want to have a carpet tank without the use of co2 with cherry shrimp or just a betta.
I never tried to do carpet plants before but I really like it, I wish I could do it on this tank, but I don't think I have proper soil or light, and I probably would need co2 and I'm not willing to invest the time and money to do that to this, but the nano tank is doable. But I'm determined to do that in the nano without the use of co2.
I'll make a new thread about it when I get started and let you know how it goes, I'll probably ask a ton of questions before hand and during setup for advice, I'm a total newbie when it comes to planted tanks.
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And thanks for the compliment, I think if one chooses few plant species and have enough of them, it's not difficult to make it look good, as it is the plants that makes the tank.
And in the case of the driftwood I just got lucky, I ordered 15 pieces from supplier without seeing them and kept 8-9 that went together nicely.
I have about 20-25 java ferns, 30 anubias nana and 10-13 anubias congensis.
And I try to keep them together and not mix them in between each other.
On the left side of the tank I keep most of the anubias nana at the bottom and all of the java fern on top.
Right side I choose anubias nana at the bottom again and congensis behind them, since they are taller the stems are hidden by the nana.
And on top of the wood on the right side I put 2 anubias nana again to hide the 2nd heater, and they are not tall plants so they won't be blown away by the filter output.
I'm considering adding more plants to perhaps tie the two "islands" together, but I'm not quite ready to temper with it right now.
I think my focus now is to maintain this and making sure all the fish are healthy and happy.
And I have a plan to redo my nano tank, I want to have a carpet tank without the use of co2 with cherry shrimp or just a betta.
I never tried to do carpet plants before but I really like it, I wish I could do it on this tank, but I don't think I have proper soil or light, and I probably would need co2 and I'm not willing to invest the time and money to do that to this, but the nano tank is doable. But I'm determined to do that in the nano without the use of co2.
I'll make a new thread about it when I get started and let you know how it goes, I'll probably ask a ton of questions before hand and during setup for advice, I'm a total newbie when it comes to planted tanks.
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Damn....
My German ram killed one of my male vijeta II.
He is super territorial and has claimed half the tank his.
So I moved him to my nano tank for the moment, I'll see if I can find him a better home.
Pretty impressive considering he takes on fish 3-4 times his size.
He fears no angel fish either.
At least I got a male with two females of the vijeta left.
Damn pretty fish, I'll get some rainbows to replace him next week.
I was worried it would take a while to net the ram, but he attacked the net so I just scooped him up.
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My German ram killed one of my male vijeta II.
He is super territorial and has claimed half the tank his.
So I moved him to my nano tank for the moment, I'll see if I can find him a better home.
Pretty impressive considering he takes on fish 3-4 times his size.
He fears no angel fish either.
At least I got a male with two females of the vijeta left.
Damn pretty fish, I'll get some rainbows to replace him next week.
I was worried it would take a while to net the ram, but he attacked the net so I just scooped him up.
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