Whitewater biotope feasibility ?

[Heelllooo]

Hello everyone,

From what I understand, whitewater river in the Amazon bassin looks like that because of the undissolved suspended solids in the water coming from the Andes.

Do you know what specifically are those suspended solids ?
Why do they stay suspended and don't dissolve or sink to the bottom like in our tank ?
Do you think it would be possible to create a South-american whitewater biotope aquarium ? With all the suspended sediment in the water ?
Has anybody done it ?
How could you make the water in the first place and maintain it ?

Maybe I should have post in the Water chemistry section.

Thanks everyone.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Do you think it would be possible to create a South-american whitewater biotope aquarium ? With all the suspended sediment in the water ?
Has anybody done it ?
How could you make the water in the first place and maintain it ?

They are mainly fine silt and clays. The <"rivers originate in the Andes">, which are a young mountain range, and which are being rapidly eroded.

The rivers flow down slope across <"the Andes Piedmont"> and drop their load of larger sediment particles, but the fine particles only deposit in the Amazon basin, where the water flow has slackened.

You couldn't really use a filter, but you would need some water movement via a power head etc. to keep the clay colloids in suspension.

For the clay, something like "Potters clay" would work <"Amazon product ASIN B08MV64BPB">. You would need to replenish it occasionally.

My understanding is that a lot of the rivers are "clear water" in the dry season, and "white water" in the wet season and fish from the Andes Piedmont are <"usually unproblematic to keep">.

Cheers Darrel

 

[Le duke]

I’ve thought of doing this with a false bottom and cross flow pumps for water return. Or, a massive inline pump with a hole drilled on each end of the aquarium.






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