This is how my tank looks like today. I have six L066 and six L202 in this tank together with some tetras as my wife likes fish you actually can see......

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Does anyone of you have any experience how the caves should be positioned in relation to the water current? I have positioned my circulation pump close to the bottom on one of the side walls so that relatively strong current passing the openings of the caves.

Most of my caves are located on the ...

bigbird wrote:stunning and superb. Must be a lot of weight in those stones. cheers jk

Thank you!

Yes, quite heavy, something about 50-60 kg. However the weight is distributed throughout the bottom area in order to secure even strain on the bottom glass.

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I usually tries to change about 50% of the water every week i all my tanks. Using tapwater as the water around here got guite good parameters. pH about 7 and very soft, KH about 1 GH about 2. No cloride. However i allways use Aquasafe or other additives in order to neutralize possible cloride.

I ...

About 5 months now, but they were bought as youngsters. They are 10 cm lenght now. At what age or size can you say that the fish is sexually mature?

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Thank you!

Hopefully this will have effect.

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Can anyone advice how to simulate rain season in my 240 liter (64 USG)? My L066 are now more or less adults, but no spawning yet. I am looking for a "trigger" in order to have them spawing. I have introduced frequently water changes with temperature some degrees lower than the tank temperature, but ...

My 240 liter tank.
This tank has been up and running for 8 months now. Home for five L202, 6 L066 and some tetras.

Only materials from my local river have been used for the setup.I have no plant, stones and gravel only. Temperature is about 28 deg C and it is relatively strong current in the tank ...

Thank you!

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My daugther`s (1,5 year) new "custom made" catfish pants. Both father and daughter are very satisfied by the result. The catfish profile was drawed by me based on some pictures and the pants made by a friend.

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I would like to have some more hiding places for the fish, thats why i changed the initial setup.

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Really nice pics!

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New setup in my Rio 400 tank, I have 6 small (6 cm) L 114 Pseudacanthicus cf. leopardus and 3 Ancistrus in this tank together with some larger ciclids.

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I am not sure with regards to what group to be removed, I will surely not have Zebras and L066 together. But maybe add 2 more of the L066 and move the l202 group. Would this tank as is today accomodate a group of 6-8 L066? Do you recommend to change something in order to (hopefully when they are ...

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I am looking for the perfect pleco for this river habitat. It is a 63 gallon tank (240 liters)

Parameters:
Stone and gravel only, no plants, quite high temperature (28-29 deg C), PH 6-7, Gh 2-3.

The current is medium to high, about 1060 gallong/hour. I have 5 clay caves and 2 slate caves ...

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The tank is a regular Juwel Rio 240. I have not the excact weight of the stones, but maybe about 50-60 kg in total. The important thing is to spread the weight evenly over the bottom surface. Glass can handle guite some load as long as the load is transferred evenly over the glass area and you ...

The tank is actually quite dark, did not use flash on my camera so shutter time were very long. Using reflectors the " wrong" way so that the light is reflected up.

I have been looking around for some LED light for my tank but have not found any suitable yet. Any suggestions?

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I have 6 adult Peckoltia lineola L202 and 6 young Hypancistrus sp. L066 (King Tiger Pleco)

I also have some Boehlkea fredcochui, also called Cochu's Blue Tetra.


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Two more.

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Here are some pics of the final result.

It is a "general" river habitat, or natural community. A part of the project was to only use stones and gravel from a nearby river here in Norway and we have no tropical catfish in our rivers...(-15 deg C outside now..). So it is actually a cold Norwegian river converted to tropical water ...

Prepared some caves and added them to the tank today. Standard pleco caves bought in my local shop. Added lots of silicone all over and rolled them in the same gravel as i have in my tank. The "camouflage" turned out to be ok. 6 caves today, will add two more soon. Total 8 caves in addition to all ...

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I used black aquarium silicone.

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Thanks Dan, your tank was really nice

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Really nice!


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If you gonna glue really loadbearing stuff i would not use silicone. But, for this use it is ok. The stones are well fastened with the silicone, and I used force on the thin bacground stones after curing of the silicone to verify if they were fastened good enough. No problem.

The only important ...

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I used black aquarium silicone. The bacground was not so difficult as i just posisioned the emty tank on its "back" so i could work with the glas horizontal and raise it again after about 24 hours. For the side walls i first fastened the stones together and a then put them on the ...

Thank you!

It was quite a lot of work, in particular all cutting of stones, but I enjoyed every every hour of it.

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More or less finished with my project.

First setup, it may change somewhat. Any comment or suggested improvements will be appreciated. Sorry for the bad quality of the pic but the water is somewhat filled by bobles as i am also testing my diffusor. The fish you see are Mosquito tetras. I also have 6 off small L066 King Tiger Plecos in ...