Hey Jools, Viktor and all... thanks for these kind words... appreciated... I'll be there now and then... just to follow the stories of others... or not... it's not impossible that I'd take another chance with this tank, but clearly not before several years... after thinking deeply the way to insure ...

Last April, I discovered a 4th leak on this "big" inner pond that you got used to see from time to time... it was too much... I had to place my monster fish in several places, from public aquarium to foolish private people and it took around 3 months to get everyone safe... from Switzerland to Spain ...

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Another one, for the Stingrays…

I think I’ll soon have babies to place

You’re too kind… thanks… each diving or turning move is shaking… but I’m not that bad with angles and travellings, considering I’m walking on the front wall, along the front glass, bent in two under the big monstera leaves and my right arm half under water + 70 cm selfie stick holding my camera… as l ...

A simple GoPro 3 on a dedicated stick. They are used to it indeed

hi everyone...

I think I have 2 (on 5) females stingray pregnant, after the entrance of a male in March. I tried to shoot a few vids and some fellows came to say hello

hi you all,

some news of the irresponsible fish in my pond...

from the double moving in October-December 2019 (leaking problems and I had to remove my fish in a shop in my area for 3 months), this Acanthicus never really healed from the stress... it got more and more thin... until these last days where I discovered it was way too thin and without any energy ...

RTC joined the big bath from a week... and only gets out of its roots at night.


but the point of this video is the underwater close up of several fish of my groups... I think it's pretty awesome

Viktor Jarikov wrote: ↑19 Feb 2021, 15:27 Haha... good job.

Oh, the RTC is only warming up. Two feet or 60 cm in the first year starting from 3" or 8 cm is quite common.

Yes, that’s what I’ve been told...

Never had such a lightning growing rate !!! awesome !

vid of the day (5 weeks and 3 days from its arrival)

Agreed...

I think my Stingrays are safe. My >2 feet Panaque too... but Peacocks could be in danger indeed.

I have an easy « B » plan in my immédiate area...

Awesome set up and tank mates btw

hi everyone... long time again since I had something worth to share... I finally made "the final step to my original fishhobbying dream"... I acquired a baby Red Tail Catfish Phractocephalus ... It's growing in the living room Xingu tank until it'll get big enough to join the predators of the ...

06.30 am, back washing a filter directly into the waste waters... and leaving for work... 2 hours later, by chance, my wife called me : is it normal that your big tank is half way empty ??? Gave emergency procedures, went back home (only 20 minutes from work) and didn't loose any fish... this time ...

I guess, whatever the specie you are talking of, there is nothing left "natural" in their inner pond behavior... too much light, water too clean, not enough natural predator/prey, easy food, and much to close interactions... considering a natural habitat

one more short video during today's water change...

I think it's worth it...

looooong time...

but a short video of one of my all time favorites... Panaque schaeferi after 10 years in my inner pond and probably 2 more years of living...



Baryancistrus LDA33 is 7 inches

nothing (serious) considering catfish... but I have in continuity : Ancistrus sp Paraguay (and hybridization with "sp from shop"), Hypancistrus sp L201 (a few fry survived and spawned when adults) and I had : Osteoglossum bicirrhosum (two spawnings, with a 6 weeks mouth care from father, including ...

one of these days, I'll shoot an underwater video of my "monsters" : Acanthicus adonis (3, 6 and 9 years old) and of the two "Survivors" Panaque schaeferi (10 years old)...

if I can dive a camera inside the tank without them to go back behind the internal filters.

a bad weather Sunday morning video... with Acanthicus hystrix (and if you are very careful, Acanthicus adonis) under a shelter of wood.



Panaque schaeferi were too shy this morning...

my angler landing nets are in rubber indeed, as you may see on these pictures : big one https://scontent.fqls2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/84046473_10222891451261529_1635410257964433408_o.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ohc=kJ646RhOoXwAX9fLqn3&_nc_ht=scontent.fqls2-1.fna&oh=d006e5bc603b13551bc651bd095472d1&oe ...

quick shot from this morning... one of the latest fry (hatched on January 5th 2020) decided to take the big bath and escaped from the suspended box where the 6 others still thrive and grow. I though it was dead, eaten/washed by the melanoid, but no... I found it this morning, grasping the cave of ...

good question I had to solve a few months ago during moving my "big" fish because of the leaking story on my inner pond. with the non dangerous fish (but big enough to get hurt), I used a simple angler's net, like you can see on the following picture : the big one : https://farm9.staticflickr.com ...

rare moment of exception today, when I "caught" a short "fight" between two Acanthicus adonis , one trying to get the other out of the shelter of the big inner filter... and suddenly... I realized, the big dominant Panaque schaeferi was very close of my hand on the filter, I hadn't seen him so close ...

I let them do the job alone from January 2019... this time, I stole the larvae from the father's care at day 4 after hatching... let's see if I can remember how to "raise" a batch of them...

Hi everyone, just a few pictures of my "Xingu tank" of the living room... so focused for months on my leaks problems on the big inner pond that I never took time to give news of this "smaller" tank. 12 Moenkhausia heikoi 5 Baryancistrus xanthellus L81 16 Hypancistrus zebra F2 around 10 fry from at ...