Hi there, just thought I would share some pictures from a tank I just rescaped. Water is still a little cloudy, and I'm no photographer, but you can get a good feel for it anyway. For some reason I struggle when I scape these 150s, I have 2 of them, and I always find scaping them to be a challenge. They are just too tall and narrow for my likeing, I would much rather scape 125s because there isent as much "dead" space on the top. Not like I'm some profesional aquascaper or anything, I do try to make my tanks looks nice though 
Anyone who knows me and has seen posts of my tanks before knows that I like setting up biotope tanks, and this one was no exception. It started with me getting my hands on some (at the time) very uncommon fish. Chuco micropthalmus, I got my hands on a trio, 1 is a for sure male, 1 is a for sure female, and the other is very submisive to the larger two. I researched and was lead to looking up info on the Rio Motagua. Obviously a great tankmate would be Parachromis motaguense. So began the search for some high quality motas. I am fortunate enough to live close to a lot of central american keepers (close is a loose term here). I decided to go with some fry from Justins' (JK47) unrelated F1 pair. I aquired 20 fry, they were very small only 3 weeks old when I got them. Of the 20 , 16 to survived to the current 1"-2" size. I got them back in August, putting them at about 5 months old now.
I grew them to this size and made the decision to put them in the 150 with the micros. The micros are 10" for the big male, 8" for the big female, and about 6" for the unsexed one. So the motas spend a fair amount of time hiding, but I really enjoy seeing them dart here and there, poking their little heads out from crevises and what not. It really gives a "wild" impresion, and I'm confident the micros wont eat them, because chuco have smaller mouths and aren't very preditorial. Also with the small size of motas, they pose no threat to micros, so are ignored. But dont tell the motas that, as I enjoy their antics.
Alright, enough of me typing, time for some pictures. Again, please dont hate to much on my lack of photographing skills, I'm a fish keeper, not a photographer
well thats it, nothing special, but thought I thought I would share.
Anyone who knows me and has seen posts of my tanks before knows that I like setting up biotope tanks, and this one was no exception. It started with me getting my hands on some (at the time) very uncommon fish. Chuco micropthalmus, I got my hands on a trio, 1 is a for sure male, 1 is a for sure female, and the other is very submisive to the larger two. I researched and was lead to looking up info on the Rio Motagua. Obviously a great tankmate would be Parachromis motaguense. So began the search for some high quality motas. I am fortunate enough to live close to a lot of central american keepers (close is a loose term here). I decided to go with some fry from Justins' (JK47) unrelated F1 pair. I aquired 20 fry, they were very small only 3 weeks old when I got them. Of the 20 , 16 to survived to the current 1"-2" size. I got them back in August, putting them at about 5 months old now.
I grew them to this size and made the decision to put them in the 150 with the micros. The micros are 10" for the big male, 8" for the big female, and about 6" for the unsexed one. So the motas spend a fair amount of time hiding, but I really enjoy seeing them dart here and there, poking their little heads out from crevises and what not. It really gives a "wild" impresion, and I'm confident the micros wont eat them, because chuco have smaller mouths and aren't very preditorial. Also with the small size of motas, they pose no threat to micros, so are ignored. But dont tell the motas that, as I enjoy their antics.
Alright, enough of me typing, time for some pictures. Again, please dont hate to much on my lack of photographing skills, I'm a fish keeper, not a photographer
well thats it, nothing special, but thought I thought I would share.
