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Sid, I love it!!!! It seems like you've used the Duckweed to your advantage. I love how the plants are growing up the sides. Any chance of a close-up of the C.Robinae?

I've got uninvited duckweed. Maybe it's time to use it to my advantage.....

No fair Sid, you're stealing all the glory

Seriously, awesome tank!!!

HI.. well.. It isn't a really river from Amazon.. because overall plants are from Asia and Africa (Anubias and Java ferns)... here we go..

Tank 800 liters with 9000 liters/hour bombs:



Habitants:

30 Ancistrus triradiatus
A couple of Hypancistrus inspector
2 Kullie loaches (for the deepest substrate)
1 Ancistrinae l-239

Parameters

Ph 7
Gh 8
NO3 5mg/lt
Temp 27°C

BYe.

hey Sidguppy:
you realy shifted every sand grain in that (tanganyika)tank since the time we were at your place, right? It's that I know that it's the same tank, but you'd certainly wouldn't say so!

Yeah, I'm a stickler when it comes to details.

and I also tend to go from truly slothlike behaviour (without the algae in my hair), as in doing nothing at the tanks for months except waterchanges and being Imperial Couch-Potato, to extreme make-overs.

yup, I sieved the sand......in all 10 tanks! Something I won't do in a hurry; because I had to get up in the morning on hands and feet the days afterwards, wich was a hint from my back to say he didn't agree with me on that one

Thanks to all that have contributed and I will be contact folks about using specific photos. Please keep adding them though as there were be future articles.
-Shane

not very biotope authentic...Synos and Haps in there (the Vallisneria have a hard time growing...)

Spiny eels, Microctenopoma, Microsynos, S.nigriventris
Filter is the Hamburg mat filter

not exactly a catfishtank at the moment, little to much salt for my plecos. at the moment the tank is housing some Micropoecilia picta from Tobago.
when im no longer in slow motion, this tank will be rebuild into a "rivertank" after some good ideas from a other post here on PC.

Any chance of a close-up of the Micropoecilia picta?

bronzefry wrote:Any chance of a close-up of the Micropoecilia picta?

any chanses to being kicked out posting livebearers on PC ? ill take my chances
there is also P.reticulata in the tank from same location.

Watch out, the Guppy Police are watching you...

Lovely species. Thanks for the picture.

Whitepine and I collected M. picta in the Orinoco around 2001. It is a wonderful fish. Interesting that you add salt to your population from Tobago as we collected them in blackwater. It was actually some of the blackest blackwater I have ever seen. On an interesting side note, my wedding ring is still at the bottom of the Orinoco. Hope Smeagal never finds it!
-Shane

ooooooooh, the precioussss!! I found the precioussssss

Here is my tank. This picture was taken in January 2005 before most of the plants had grown out.


The tank was set up in late November and the fish added in Decemeber 2004 and January.

I will post a new picture but the Valiseria has grown to cover the back of the tank and several of the fish have been moved.

Currently housed are:

1 Peckotilia Sabaji
1 long finned ancistrus (unable to find scientific name)
1 common ancistrus
1 Gibby (sail fin Pleco)
8 Various Rainbows
5 Corys (aneus and leopardus)
1 Rainbow shark
1 flying fox

The tank is a 45 gallon tall. The substrate is flourite. Daily dosing of Kent Grow and Iron are added and the water (15%) is changed 2x a week with aged rap water

Picture for above post:

Shane wrote:Whitepine and I collected M. picta in the Orinoco around 2001. It is a wonderful fish. Interesting that you add salt to your population from Tobago as we collected them in blackwater. It was actually some of the blackest blackwater I have ever seen.

we found the M.picta in brackish water, inn small ponds and "streams" with connection to the sea. we didn't test the water for salt, but in one of the locations we tested, Gh, high 40,Kh about 20 and Ph around 7,5. it wasn't the most accurate test we had, but this is the results we got.

i throw in a picture of the location whit these parameters



Malle

OMG!!!!!!

WALLPAPER!!!!!
that's is NOT a "natural tank"

More like a community tank where the background is sorely missing.

I made more changes.
Before:

Today:

Still muddling my way through. But, I think I'm learning a little.

I know the wallpaper has to be covered here are 2 pictures taken today:

As you can see the Valisaria has covered most of the background



At least the outdoor patio pond doesn't show wallpaper

I also have Pleco's but they are hard to capture on film

Amanda,
Tank is looking much nicer. A litle background goes a long way.
-Shane

Thanks, Shane. I also moved some of the taller plants to the sides. I'm hoping they'll fill and conceal the equipment better. I started this tank around the new year ('05). A lot of changes!

Are all those Rainbows males? They're all so colorful. Must be quite a boisterous tank!

Funny story, I went to purchase catfood at a one of the mega chain places. In the tank section they had Rainbows for sale with no price. I asked the high school kid who was working the counter, how much were the red rainbows. He looked around and saw the tag for cherry barbs at $1.19 each. He tells me the rainbows are $1.19 each. I tell him that it has to be a mistake. He calls someone else to give him the price and this person looks at the price for cherry barbs and also says $1.19. I take all 10. I got 4 Red Rainbows, 4 boesmani and 2 goyden river. 2 of the boesmani died within a week but all others look good. I know out of the 8, 6 are males, I might have 1 male red rainbow, his/her color is a greenish grey and 1 of the boesmani could also be a female, but since all the others are male, they might be subordinates and just haven't developed the size or color of the other males.

I'm always concerned abouit buying at this petshop, because once they had snowball plecos @ $3.99, I purchased both placed them in a qurantine tank and never saw them eat. They just withered away.

Some examples:

Two kinds off gravel mixed over years once the one with the holes was under the other one


A gravel bought already with different sizes


Front view with the room carpet


right side


left/technical side


The cork I think to use as background


That is going to look so (look`s better in natur!)


The asian-tank you see has exact 0 fish`s in becouse it had to much "sulforhydrogen" (in German: Schwefelwasserstoff) a year ago and I thought it would be better to wait with doing fish in till now
Disscosions of what fish`s put in are welcome