My First Aquarium

These are some dogey photos i have tried to take, for some reson they are not very clear at all, ah well i need to work on my photography a bit. Any suggestions would be appreciated as tank isnt fully stocked yet and there is room for a few more plants.





i cant make my photo files to become less that 100k.... i dont understand how you guys get so many photos in one post??






i see how you get it into one post now



DJ and Sid

My tank is 143L it is currently home to

2 bolivian butterflys
10 neon tetras
4 gold barb
1 blue gourami (female, did have male but was to agressive so back to the LFS)

was thinking of adding maybe 3 ottos??? would they go alright in there, also my aunt has a zebra plec that she is considering rehoming or selling and i have first option at it before she tries to sell it, but am unsure weather or not i can take it... im doing loads of reasearch on it now.

thanks for reading! any suggestions much appreciated

Are you sure it's a zebra pleco? Those things go for hundreds of pounds.
You should be able to take it in my opinion, I'd recommend 6 ottos to keep them happy.

yeh its a zebra ill get a photo next time im over at her house, they arent to hard to find around here in australia (so she says) i still know little about them. if i get 6 ottos do you think i have any room for another type of fish?

That's a smashing tank you have there

That's your first tank? Sterling job!

Some bad news though, that plant in the middle looks like an echinodorus cordifolius. If it is then those leaves are it's emersed form as it has been grown out of water, in time they are going to die and drop off and be replaced by the immersed. When this happens don't panic, it's not dead just adapting.

Oh and some of your photography problems are because that is a curved front, which causes distortion. It also makes it harder to avoid reflection by taking images at an angle rather than directly on. Usually if you take a pic like c ---| you get a reflection of the camera and yourself (and the flash if you use it), so folks take the photo at an angle to the glass, this helps to stop the camera focusing on the glass as well.

Ade

Ah ok, thanks guys... yeh it is my first tropical tank. i did have a goldfish in the bowl when i was younger but this is my first real go. you are right wolfenrook the big leaves have started to die off and some new ones are emerging from the base. I asked for an amazon sword and thats what he gave me i should really look up photos of plants before i go off to the store so i no what i am getting.
im having a bit more of a play with my camera now, you are right again this curved front is making it really hard lol ah well

thanks for the replies!

Im impressed!

My first tank looked crap!

It is a variety of amazon sword. It's actually one of my fave varieties, I have a nice little echinodorus cordifolius marble queen in my tank. Used to be though that if people said amazon sword they wanted either echinodorus paniculatus (grows very big) or echinodorus bleheri (forget big, thing massive). Nowaday all of the echindorus plants get referred to as amazon swords. Annoying really as the last thing you want to get for your nice big background plant is a diddy little echinodorus tenellas (dwarf chain sword) really.

That really is a good first time tank though. Not counting goldfish my first planted was a 10 gallon with limnophila aquatica and a proper amazon sword, squeezing them in alongside the oversized Hagen Biolife was an amusing feat in itself. Well done, and that sword is going to look lovely!

Ade

Thanks ade i only thought there was one type of amazon sword but there you go there a a few lol. The sword i have is growing quite rapidly i noticed another new leaf coming out when i got home

Thats a very nice first aquarium. Wonderful gr8 fish.