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Vitaliy

Vitaliy

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Do you guys know of a place where I would be able to look up natural habitats of different fish? Pictures is what I am looking for.. Would like to setup a bunch of tanks to resemble the fish's natural environment.

Convicts, Red Devils, Buttikoferi, Frontosas, Angels (yeah, not so monster :p), Discus (!), and Dats.

Rocks? Driftwood? Dark? Plants? Gravel? Sand? Water movement? etc.. etc.. etc..
 
Vitaliy said:
Do you guys know of a place where I would be able to look up natural habitats of different fish? Pictures is what I am looking for.. Would like to setup a bunch of tanks to resemble the fish's natural environment.

Convicts, Red Devils, Buttikoferi, Frontosas, Angels (yeah, not so monster :p), Discus (!), and Dats.

Rocks? Driftwood? Dark? Plants? Gravel? Sand? Water movement? etc.. etc.. etc..
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If you were to replicate a discus's natural habitat, it'd be one ugly tank. They inhabit mud bottom lakes with cloudy water and floating branches. Most people generalize a bit and create an Amazon biotope of sorts.
 
You will need to cross reference several sources.
 
I thought discus are from the amazon?... if you do set up a biotope for discus it would probably be with lots of tall plants like giant vallis etc and mangrove roots... for them to hide in. You can try taking a look at some of amanos tanks as some of them are based largely on biotopes.
 
paintboi101 said:
anyone got any ideas of what i sould do to make my new empty tank look good with plants and like rocks or something??? plz help
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It all depends on what you like, check out people's personal gallreries tro get some ideas.
 
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