Round indoor pond project queries.

[Hufsa]

The pond is stable, fish are thriving and nothing ever changes in it to the point that I forget to post as fish wise there are no dramatic events.

It sounds wonderful 🥰 Even though im not currently keeping loaches, they hold a special place in my heart and yours just have such a fantastic home 😄

 

[sciencefiction]

So beautiful, both flowers are from the same palm, just different age 🙂

 

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HI ALL,just a video of the pond today. Its been about 6.5 years since its setup with thw same crew although some of the loaches are from before and I added so.e baby loaches later but the yougest are now 5 years,oldest about 11.

 

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I don't know if I have mentioned lately but these fish have been fed just one brand of food for over a decade - New Life Spectrum. I don't even feed them anything else really, like frozen food. I lost that habit out of laziness. All of the fish were babies when I got them, including the denison barbs and harlequins, apart from about 4 of the loaches which I got a bit grown up to save them from the fish shop. The denisons will be 7 years old around October this year. I don't sell the food😀 I am not promoting it but let's say it is safe to say one can feed their fish with that food only and keep them healthy without much fuss, based on my experience.

 

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Some pictures of my ponds.

The first one is the kuhli loach and shrimp. Second one is the weather loach and hillstreams. Third one is the pond with the clown loaches.

 

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A rare view of one of my hillstream loaches. They're great at hiding, especially that this tank is full of crypts to the brim. I haven't done the gardening in a very long time as you can notice 🙂
The algae is on the glass, not on the plants. This hillstream was bought about 6 years ago.

 

[Danlacey1988]

has anyone tried growing amazon swords in one of the pond tubs I'm thinking of doing it as i have some spare quite big swords
any other aquarium plant other than valisnaria (already done came out well even started flowering )
thinking of potting it with aquatic compost and capping it with pea gravel
and advice input would be appreciated .

 

[sciencefiction]

Sorry, I am actually seeing this just now. I actually have an amazon sword in one of the small plastic ponds. It grows just fine but often struggles to get enough light from the emerged plants. That mini pond is with soil, capped with sand.

I took some pictures today. Unfortunately only thought of it after the aquatic lights went off but here you go.

The pond looks so small on this picture 🙂 The creeper at the bottom is only recent addition so hoping to finally cover that mesh. It's grown very quickly and is putting roots through the mesh already.





There is an orchid which is doing fairly well. All I do is put water from the fish tank. It's hanging outside it.



That's one of the mini ponds. There are 2 plants grown emerged which take turns. Right now the hydrophila corymbosa has taken over but this changes.

 

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A couple more with lights as it looks nicer

 

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And one of my oldest sitting glass tanks...It has hillstream loaches in it for several years, probably six years 🙂 Of course the tank had a different history before hand....It needs some care and cutting crypts...I just don't care because the fish do not care.

 

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A bit of food in the water is what is causing the flying dots. Life goes on for the fish.

 

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My personal take on from this video with the camera pointed at the bottom is that the harlquin rasboras, mostly bought in the start of 2017, some before. are flying around the bottom with no fear from the other fish. It used not to be the case.