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Keeping Tropical Fish, Photography, Travel.<br /><br />Places I've been to: <br /><br />REYKJAVIK.<br />KOLN & BERLIN.<br />BARCALONA & MADRID.<br />PRAGUE.<br />BORDEAUX.<br />MALTA.<br />MOROCCO<br />RHODES<br />TURKEY<br />NORTH AMERICA, MISSOURI.
- Birthday
- Nov 15, 1980 (Age: 43)
- Location
- Bournemouth, Dorset - UK
- My Aquariums & Fish
- I've got one tank currently, it's a Fluval Duo Deep 800, I use silicone sand as the substrate, the environment is made up of plants, bog wood and flat slate.
As far as lighting goes i've got the standard Light Glo double light canopy with 2 x 24in Fluorescent tubes as well as a moon light bulb (I can't remember the make right now)
As far as fish go:
1x Black Ghost Knife Fish
2x Sailfin Plecos
6x Black Widow Tetras
2x Kribensis
1x Albino Kribensis
3x Zebra Danios
1x Rainbow Fish
and last but definately not least, a 13" Freshwater Moray eel.
This set up is very much the start of a long term project, The Knife Fish and the Plecos will eventaully be moved to a second tank, and the Moray, not being a "true" freshwater species will be moved to a third tank which I intend to set up as a stand alone brackish tank.
Food wise, I've got a mix of frozen foods to hand, Brine Shrimp, Blood Worm, Daphnia, cockles, mussels and spinach. as well as this I use Live feeder shrimp, bloodworm and daphnia. I also have two suction cup clips which I attach cucumber to and the plecos tear through that instead of eating my plants.
The eel spends most of his time burried in the sand and only comes out to feed at night, as does the knife fish, it's only since I've installed the moon light bulb that i've realised how facinating the knife fish is to watch and how much he moves about. (i'm using "he" here, I'm actually unsure of the sex of any of my fish except the kribensis) After doing a bit of research I know that the eel cant spend all it's life in a fresh tank and as it gets older will need a larger dose of salt to keep it healthy, right now i'm adding a spoonfull or tonic salt into the tank after weekly maintenance and he seems to be feeding fine, but I intend to set up a brackish tank in the next couple of months so I'll move him to that after.
The black widow tetras are the latest (and until a second tank is up and running) and last addition to the tank, they have real character, constantly sticking together, always all facing the same way, it's like having one big fish instead of 6 little ones, the Rainbow fish seems to have made friends with them too...all of which spend most of there time in the mid water area until the lights go off then they all move upto the surface with the Zebra Danios.
My plecos are very close to one another, except when there is blood worm in the tank, one seems to have a real taste for it, the other prefers cucucmber and algae, of course being aware of the size they grow too i know it wont be long until they start becoming more teratorial, so a second larger fresh water tank is being planned.
My Kribensis, I think, have finally found a corner of the tank they like and seemed of of settled into it well, the do a good job of sifting and cleaning the sand of any left over food debris, wether or not they will breed is another matter, but they spend a lot of time under a diagonally place piece of slate so i'll have to keep my eye out, the Albino has found another area but it equally "house proud"
Finally the Zebra Danios, being top feeders spend most of their time up high and in the jet stream of the air pump.
- Gender
- Male
Contact
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