“A Little Unconventional” - Bucephalandra & Hakkai - Custom All In One

[Ratvan]

Nice picture of the Betta:

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I looked in to the stiphodon gobies but they like high light, fast flowing tanks so unfortunately not right for me.

I’m already struggling to get enough biofilm for the shrimp, the rocks refuse to get particularly slimy hence re adding more floating plants to prepare for them.

I currently have a trio of the Stiphodon gobies, i am not convinced that the fast flow part in particular is correct.
Yes the flow seems to help with growing the algae/biofilm that they consume but mine seem to constantly be in areas of little to no flow.
I have however added a airstone to my tank/filtration compartment to aid in additional oxygenation

Just my 2 pence

 

[Little]

Interesting, I will keep them in consideration then. Cheers 👍

 

[Little]

Just something a bit silly:

 

[hn5624]

Interested to see how it grows out. This will prolly take a good year for the buces

 

[Little]

Me too 👍 Time is the best additive 🗓️

 

[Little]

Bucephalandra Maia with an Armano Shrimp grazing.

Love this little plant. Lost two of four but the remaining two are pushing out new leaves including this awesome copper tone one.

 

[Little]

My first set of 10 Zebra Babaulti went in yesterday. I’m waiting for the next 10 from another supplier.

Did a low light drip climate so did not get a good look till this morning.
One of them out this morning has orange eyes.

 

[Little]

Added a few ramshorn snails

 

[Little]

Just been musing on the critter movement in the tank.

The Amanos are just so fast / active they sort of make the Zebra shrimp look lethargic.
I got the Amanos as an attempt to force more scale, to make the zebras look even smaller.
They definitely accomplish this but I’m not sure the jarring movement comparison is worth it.

Will see if the Zebras become more active over time (they seem healthy but always stay roughly in the same area as opposed to travelling around the tank). If not, will sell off the Amanos.
I think my smaller 30l tank is too small for 4 Amanos and it already has a lot of isopods / critters.

 

[Little]

The betta started harassing the shrimp. Quite uncharacteristic of him as was with shrimp for a year with no issues. Non stop flaring and an occasional dart towards them for a few hours.
So I popped the Betta in the spare tank (35 liter).
He is now murdering all the critters in there (daphnia, copepods, crangonyx etc…).
Not sure why the personality change but I boiled some botanicals and added them, additionally have the light set to low.

I got some Pygmy corys for this main tank and they are adorable so that’s a silver lining.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

He is now murdering all the critters in there (daphnia, copepods, crangonyx etc…).

He must be a happy boy, Crangonyx appear to be "catnip" for most fish - <"Crangonyx as an algae eater">.

cheers Darrel