Tom's Poco Pozo

[BigTom]

Cheers lol

And that bucket O mud was on every aquatic forum I visited. It was hard to miss. I think the idea of self sustaining done right has an appeal because it's something few have ever really seen. I have always wondered if a small apisto, say Borellii or panduro, would have or could have fit into that fine balance.

I think Tuncalik tried a pair of A. borelli in his 'biotope in my study' and decided they needed supplemental feeding, but it probably just comes down to tank size. I reckon it'd be doable in something the size of the Bucket with the right microfauna.

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[Thrills24]

Ok Cheers.

Fantastic vid!

 

[BigTom]

New fish day! Added 30 more green neons and *drumroll* 5 Biotodoma wavrini.

Photos once they've settled in.

 

[shwalker]

Very nice! What are you feeding them all at the moment?

 

[BigTom]

Very nice! What are you feeding them all at the moment?

Erm, mainly a mix of about half a dozen different dried foods from TA Aquaculture and the odd cube of mixed frozen food. Normally there'd be a fair amount of live as well but I don't have much on the go at the moment.

 

[Edvet]

Wel, you know: pics, or it didn't happen.........😎

 

[BigTom]

Wel, you know: pics, or it didn't happen.........😎

They're quite young (about 2") and pretty skinny (wild caught) so not much to look at yet, but give them a year and hopefully they should be stunners.

 

[Edvet]

 

[BigTom]

And the male Guianacara, who still never shows his spot but is otherwise pretty handsome.

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi BigTom, Fantastic Thread Wonderful Fish. The last photo What a stunning fellow

 

[BigTom]

Neons!



I added some cheap extra lighting by repositioning the room lights above the tank 😛

Using four fairly cheap ebay 15w GU10 LED spotlights. Beam angle is narrower than I was expecting and the output isn't exactly mind boggling but they're useful for spotlighting some of the wood and plants, and mean I can raise the Kessil slightly so the smaller riparians are all lit now.

The hairgrass has been suffering a bit lately - the 40 odd Guianacara juveniles have started digging it up pretty regularly which probably doesn't help. Going to upgrade the filtration this weekend (been meaning to do that for a while) so should roughly triple the flow and going to have a go with some gluteraldehyde. Never used it before so figured it was worth a play given I got some cheap off Hoggie 🙂

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Big Tom, The neons look stunning 😎 Adding a splash of moving colour😉

 

[BigTom]

Hi Big Tom, The neons look stunning 😎 Adding a splash of moving colour😉

Yeah they're ace. They look brilliant when they all school together, although they don't do it all the time (generally after water changes and feeding).

 

[James O]

Stunning as usual Tom! But those neons are stunning - despite their ubiquity they really steal the show when in numbers and of course in the right tank 😉

 

[BigTom]

 

[Vinkenoog1977]

That's just ridiculously gorgeous.

 

[alto]

Fantastic tank!
have you seen any spawning behavior from the Dicrossus (filamentosus I presume)?

 

[Alexander Belchenko]

Very alive!

 

[BigTom]

Fantastic tank!
have you seen any spawning behavior from the Dicrossus (filamentosus I presume)?

Unfortunately not. The males spent a lot of time displaying to the female but she's utterly disinterested. I bought the males and female from different shops (all I could find locally) and to be honest I wonder if they're from sufficiently different populations to make breeding difficult.

 

[ADA]

Great looking tank and the fish are stunning, love the way it looks like a slice of nature framed by glass, really natural looking. 🙂