I did some digging and O. woworae appears to be a bit more widespread than previously thought, although be careful so you don't confuse it with similar species like O. wolasi. This article (pdf of full text available) might be useful, and provided some more pictures as well. From the IUCN:
No plants mentioned might mean no plants found
I would guess that the greenery seen in the photos is more likely some kind of algae. If it where me I would try to recreate something like this, with a sand/clay substrate and various botanicals. If you want to get really fancy you can even have a buried filter outflow, like in this one, to emphasize the spring feel.
Yes, although it's not limited to a single stream at least, so you should have some more leeway. The tank looks really nice, a bit too nice for a biotope maybe. These are a couple of my photos from a small stream in Borneo, which should be fairly similar:
), and I'm sure you can make some O. woworae very happy in there as it is.
all my other tanks are taken up with young Betta!Haha, yes then it's an easy choice! That rules out any large sudden changes as well, but you could try to add a blue background maybe (the water on the pictures tend to be either blue- or brownish), as well as some leaf litter (maple breaks down pretty quickly into nice mulm). I'm not sure which exact plants you have in there already, but the one in the back looks like some kind of Hygrophila to me, in which case you can allow it to grow above the waterline to simulate some of the rich riparian growth seen. As for floating plants Azolla species appears to be almost ubiquitous in rice paddies, so should occur in the area at least. The Hadiaty article mentions the pH (6-7), and current (none), so any calm water without extreme parameters should be fine.That's the reason I was looking at O. woworae is that I already have them in there
Yes his tank looks great, I would really like to have one like that on my desk. Something other than South American Echinodorus and African Cyperus would have been preferred though
so I might have to experiment with growing rice instead.The link leads to a video of phractolaemus ansorgii, although that's another fish I've been tempted by for years so I might be better off doing a biotope around them (if I can source some).
Yes please do. I rarely visit youtube these days, too much clickbait and multiple exklamation marks for my taste, so any help navigating there would be appreciated.
That's really odd. Anyway, I'll just post the whole link:
