River Rio Central

AquaBarb · Feb 28, 2023

emeraldking said:
Love the contrast in your tank. The plants give me the impression that they're fake plants. But it's a beautiful green in the tank.

They are fake indeed, one tank did look like this

with live plants

But it becomes difficult once certain cichlids mature to stop them turning you plants into salad lol so i had to make the change to artificial

AquaBarb · Feb 28, 2023

Palour palm didnt arrive today but the fish tank bling turned up lol

AquaBarb · Feb 28, 2023

@anewbie Water parameters for my tanks are Gh 9.1/ Kh 7 / Ph 7.4 /Temp 25c-77f

Central tank

species...

Theraps Bocourti

Thorichthys Ellioti

Herotilapia Multispinosa

aka Rainbow cichlid

Tiger Silver Dollars – Metynnis Fasasciatus

Hyphessobrycon Columbianus. aka colombian tetra

Sahyadria Denisonii
Red-line Torpedo Barb

Pimelodus pictus catfish

Hemiancistrus subviridis L200 green phantom pleco

seangee · Feb 28, 2023

Lots of lovely fish, nice to see a decent sized group of columbians

AquaBarb · Feb 28, 2023

seangee said:
Lots of lovely fish, nice to see a decent sized group of columbians

Love my Columbians

they school lovely.

anewbie · Feb 28, 2023

I see so mostly ca fishes 'cept the pleco which is sa; really nice tank - will be interesting to watch it mature.

AquaBarb · Feb 28, 2023

anewbie said:
I see so mostly ca fishes 'cept the pleco which is sa; really nice tank - will be interesting to watch it mature.

Thank you

Its the cichlids which are from Central america really, their entourage lol are from south america mainly apart from the barbs

Not much choice when it comes to dither/smaller fish from central america. Harder to source and there is way more choice in the south

AquaBarb · Mar 11, 2023

Little bit of sadness today having taken my little army of Ellioti cichlids to my Lfs to find their forever homes

All turned out ok tho and all 42 arrived safely the other end

Ive was going to keep a small group myself but decided on just keeping a pair in the end.

Had an empty 29g with the Ellioti's gone so i thought im going to make it home for my juvenile keyholes now but with me being at my favourite fish store it was a good bet i wasnt coming away without anything

So the 29g is a quarantine tank for the time being for a

Blue Phantom Plec L128

Wills · Mar 11, 2023

Looks great

but to let you know the video isnt working - say's its set to private.

AquaBarb · Apr 5, 2023

Tanks come alive at night

my favourite time of the day to sit and chill in one of the fish rooms

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Star Girl

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Fastly become my favorite Tetra

beauitful, colourful and their schooling behaviours on point. They are like rummy and cardinals combined

Rocky998 · Apr 5, 2023

AquaBarb said:
Tanks come alive at night my favourite time of the day to sit and chill in one of the fish rooms .
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Fastly become my favorite Tetra beauitful, colourful and their schooling behaviours on point. They are like rummy and cardinals combined

HOW ARE YOUR TANKS ALWAYS SO GOOOOOD