ExcitableBoy
Member
Hi,
I have three emersed tanks (60x30 cm each one). I don't know if they can be considered as paludariums, I just want to have my own "high light plants farm" and also in 2 or 3 months depending on my pocket I will start a high tech planted tank in which have fun with the spp I am growing emersed.
Anyway, in these tanks the water is still and the water column is 2 inch / 5 cm high or thereabouts. Here we go, after a couple of weeks one of them has some mosquitoes larvae in the water, and probably there will be in the others too sooner or later.
I don't know if there are chemicals that I could add and being 100% they will not hurt plants and the entire "ecosystem". I could add some of those small USB water pumps, but these tanks are so densely planted that I think the mosquitoes will manage to find a proper still zoneffor the larvae. So I was thinking to add a predator in every tank. The only one small enough I thought is Betta splendens, they could easily survive in these still waters considering they are anabantidae. I would avoid the males because they have often quite long fins, too long for the water column. So I would go for a female in each tank. When the mosquitoes season ends, I will put them all together either in the high tech planted tank or in a small low tech planted tank if there will be too much flow.
What do you think?
(of course I am not going to add other inverts to the emersed tanks anymore)
I have three emersed tanks (60x30 cm each one). I don't know if they can be considered as paludariums, I just want to have my own "high light plants farm" and also in 2 or 3 months depending on my pocket I will start a high tech planted tank in which have fun with the spp I am growing emersed.
Anyway, in these tanks the water is still and the water column is 2 inch / 5 cm high or thereabouts. Here we go, after a couple of weeks one of them has some mosquitoes larvae in the water, and probably there will be in the others too sooner or later.
I don't know if there are chemicals that I could add and being 100% they will not hurt plants and the entire "ecosystem". I could add some of those small USB water pumps, but these tanks are so densely planted that I think the mosquitoes will manage to find a proper still zoneffor the larvae. So I was thinking to add a predator in every tank. The only one small enough I thought is Betta splendens, they could easily survive in these still waters considering they are anabantidae. I would avoid the males because they have often quite long fins, too long for the water column. So I would go for a female in each tank. When the mosquitoes season ends, I will put them all together either in the high tech planted tank or in a small low tech planted tank if there will be too much flow.
What do you think?
(of course I am not going to add other inverts to the emersed tanks anymore)