New Channa Aurantimaculata Tank

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volcanotimes

volcanotimes

Gambusia
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Dec 25, 2012
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Hello my friends

A new project I have launched these days.a tank 180cmX55cmx65cm (600 liters +), the aquarium is by the company Abyssos here in Greece and will accommodate my favorite channa aurantimaculata. The aquarium will naturally become species tank .

and here is some photos to saw you the progress .







the filtration 2 x 1200 Aquanova Ncf





the lamps





decoration





the fishes's first dive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ixR9RNtNA

it s a little bit dark but you ll be understand

the fishes






and a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-8UZBbH4zU

i wish you like it

thanks
 
Very nice, I would add more cover and caves though to help stop them from ripping each other apart.

How many are you starting with ?
 
Also another tip, I recommend sticking with floating plants and those that attach to wood, You'll find they dig constantly rooted plants are a lost cause with this species. Everything ends up ripped up and added to a pile as they build caves .
 
volcanotimes said:
I must find pistia stratiotes
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I use this in my tank. I have tried out MANY floaters over the years. Pistia was one of my favorites when i first got it, channa love it because of the long roots and it blacks out the surface, however it will beat out all the other plants for nutrients because anything with leaves above the water has better c02 access. Also the leaves sitting on the water seems to create the perfect 02 depleted environment for fungus, leaf rot and worst of all cyanobacteria to form which leads to a mess..

Duckweed is another common floater, it doesn't seem to have the same cyanobacteria/fungus issues but will have the same issue with out competing the other plants for nutrients.

I have had better luck with Ceratopteris thalictroides (water sprite), great floater and a nice fern with long hanging roots if allowed to grow larger and out of the water. Also grows well and in a stem form if planted in the substrate ( if you end up with a place they dont dig lol). I placed a few of these floater on top of some floating wood, the extra support allows the fern immersed form to stick up out of the water, at least until it gets so big that it starts to drag the wood down with it.

My favorite floater is Anacharis. This makes for the all time perfect floated, makes a nice plant tangle that can be several inches thick, but because it's floating but is slightly submersed so it actually oxygenates the water and doesnt have the co2 in the air above to give it a huge advantage over the low light plants below.

Although i keep a couple pista in each tank , i limit it to 1-2 and regularly feed the smaller ones to turtles. If i could get rid of the duckweed I would but it's a never ending battle so it also get getts netted up a fw times a month for turtle/mbuna food. Most of my tanks now have thick Anacharis cover, with a couple pieces of floating wood and 1-2 large floating water sprite plants.

Sorry got into a bit of a rant there, but someone might as well benefit from my trial and error lol
 
volcanotimes said:
Thanks dc for your reply. Now i have 6 aurantimaculata inside. I m waiting for plants to ending the decoration part. Thanks again
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6 is a great number to start with. if you provide lot's of caves it shouldn't take long before you start to see a male/female pairs who prefer each other and stick together in caves,
 
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