Thanks very much Steve, greatly appreciated! 👍
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Thanks very much Steve, greatly appreciated! 👍
Really difficult to get decent reflection free images during the day, so I apologies if these iPhone shots are a bit crap! I’ll dig the proper camera out one evening and try and take some decent ones.
I’ve got some more plants to add, but I find it a bit much doing it all in one day, and a piecemeal approach works a bit better.
I’ve got some more plants to add, but I find it a bit much doing it all in one day, and a piecemeal approach works a bit better.
Thanks Tim, that feel of a river bank in some little
Amazon tributary (though I appreciate most of them don’t have that many plants) is what I hoping to achieve.
I’ll be adding some emersed growth and some finer root hardscape to the back of the tank later on too to try and enhance that effect.
Love it, looks great. Got a very natural feel to it already and that’s without anything grown in.
Do you know what livestock you’re planning to stock?
Thanks mate - yeah listed the livestock on the previous page mate, have a look here - let me know if you think there are any bad combinations in there, you are the fish guru!
Sounds good mate, If I’m honest I’d probably go a bit larger on some of the groups as it’s a decent sized tank and most of those fish are tiny, but it’s entirely up to you. It always leaves room for more species in the future if you keep things as is.
I’d like to go for a 6 foot by two by two if space permits, or larger but I wouldn’t want to push my luck lol. I’d love to set up a xingu river tank, decent sized characins and L numbers.
Yeah I was originally thinking larger groups (100 Chillis, 40 Reed tetra, 20 Threadfins etc) - but I thought it’d be better to get all species in that I want and then see how they look. I can then expand the shoals as I go along, or add another species (such as Nannostomus marginatus which is another candidate).
Ah man, if you’re going to go big, you should really go for it; 240 x 100 x 60 I reckon. I’d have gone bigger with this tank if I’d had the space - I do one day fancy a bigger tank like that, I’ve always wanted a big shoal of Congo tetra, but that may never happen.
Sounds like a good idea.
The small fish big tank option you’ve gone down will make this already large tank seem even larger. That was my plan originally however I’ve massively deviated from that now.
I’d love to but I think it would end in divorce haha!
Sickk choices, and obviously I highly recommend 🤩
The paucis seem a bit rare on stock lists indeed, but I really feel they are worth hunting around for and waiting a bit to find if needed. They're super cute and really active.
Finding other pangio species than "standard kuhlii" (semicincta) could be interesting 😃 Perhaps specialist stockists like Glaser and (I dont know exactly who distribute in the UK), but it should be possible. I hadn't caught that the alternans are smaller, how much are we talking here?
Wow that picture makes them look really lovely. A medium size tetra I think? I think this is one of the tetra species that Corydoras hastatus have developed to mimic in the wild.Reed/Sedge/Veilfin Tetra (Hyphessobrycon elachys):
I really like the way they shoal and interact
Oh yeah 😁👍
Oooh.. Do you have both sexes too? I seem to recall a forum thread about the females being like unicorns.
Man im wanting ALL the fish now
I wonder how the shrimp will do with some of the smarter fish. I had heard especially the Badis are skilled hunters. Perhaps youre just letting "nature take its course", and either the shrimp population makes it or they dont?
Ive had shrimp for years now but if one wants to make sure shrimp aren't eaten, it really limits fish options a lot 🤔 Sometimes I think about all the cool fish I could have if I just didn't keep shrimp
Yeah I’ll hunt around for them over the next few weeks, I don’t mind buying online if somewhere has them.
As far as I’ve read standard Kuhli’s get up to around 10cm whereas the Alternans max out at around 7cm.
No, they’re very small, maxing out around 3cm. The males are a bit longer once you account for their long display fins - but I’ve seen them several times in the shop (that video was one I took) and I love the way they interact with one another - more active than a lot of tetra tend to be - with males flaring their fins at one another etc.
Oooh.. Do you have both sexes too? I seem to recall a forum thread about the females being like unicorns.
Man im wanting ALL the fish now
Lol yes Louis was kind enough to give me 3 males and 9 females.
They’re currently in my crypt growing on tank:
This was when they first went if and hadn’t fully coloured up yet:
They are tiny too - about 25mm.
Well Louis said that they were aggressive hunters, but I’ve not see any evidence of that in my tank, there are a LOT of Gammarus shrimp (scuds) in there and they don’t seem to go for the adults. Even feeding daphnia to them, they seem to follow a target around for ages trying to grab it - not very savage. It might just be that there are so many baby scuds in there, it’s a constant buffet for them so when I eventually feed some daphnia they’re like “Meh . . . I could eat I suppose!”.
My plan was to start with a sufficiently large population of shrimp that their population can sustain any predation. I’ll start with about 50, and as I mentioned above, leave them for a couple of months before adding fish so they get a couple of rounds of breeding in. I also plant to add some to another tank as an isolated population to hopefully “restock” if needed. I’ve also got a couple of piles of rocks in the layout that should give them hiding and birthing places free from most of the fish.
I also think, over a certain size (and Tangerine tigers can get quite big) the fish won’t touch them - it’s the babies that re obviously most at risk. That is aside from the Apisto’s which is one of the reasons I’m not so sure about them as an addition.
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SteveMid
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Yes, a lovely small tetra and under-rated little fish. I love them, they are always on the move and keep together in a nice shoal. I have some in one of my shrimp tanks. It’s great when the males start getting showy with each other 😀
Thanks Steve, they look awesome!
Kaliilo
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Scape looks so good, its exactly the kind of setup I really love. Threadfin Rainbows have always been a favourite of mine, I used to have them in with some gertrudae and the prancing around they do when showing off is so fun to watch!
Cant wait to see this when its stocked but I would be happy staring at that tank with or without fish
Cant wait to see this when its stocked but I would be happy staring at that tank with or without fish
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Round two of planting last night after taking a delivery from @Horizon Aquatics:
Mainly some more Parva and Albida Brown for the foreground, and a Utseriana for the background, then some Kedagang for the rocks to the right hand side.
The rest are for some emersed pots that I’ll explain later . . .
Mainly some more Parva and Albida Brown for the foreground, and a Utseriana for the background, then some Kedagang for the rocks to the right hand side.
The rest are for some emersed pots that I’ll explain later . . .
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Nothing like a fresh batch of plants waiting to be washed, divided and then planted.
I have learned to loathe rockwool! 😂
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it can be difficult to get rid of all of it. I remove most by hand and then use the end of my straight forceps to comb the residue from between the roots. Apparently a fork can be used to do the same job.
