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murphy is a mbu puffer, which lives in lakes in the congo and in the congo river itself so not saltwater but definitely huge

Amazon biotope: moderate light; landscape: black water with tannins with light current, dirt as a base and genuine river sand on the top, stones and large logs with many branches, with leaf litter, a conventional cave hidden between the wood and plants; plants: echinodorus bleheri, echinodorus...

about this, I suggest that you can make yourself a different tank where you can breed the Apistogramma, but, how large is that tank?

Also, haven't you thought about the possibility that your other 2 angels died so young because the nitrogen cycle didn't work that well? maybe you doing those biweekly water changes allowed the chemicals to build up faster than what the plants and bacteria could process, and as a result 2 of...

If that is the case, then buy 2 more angelfish but don't buy Apistogramma or kribensis since there is only 1 cave and it is probably already owned by the bristlenose plecos, as for the chemicals, ammonia and nitrites should be always 0, not close to 0, nitrates can get a bit higher without being...

To resume this as long as your fish have enough space as they need, you make sure that there aren't any dangerous chemicals (ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, and chlorine) and you make sure that your water parameters are not wrong then your tank isn't overstocked.

Yes, I didn't get my point across as I wanted to, thanks for making me see that, what I wanted to say is that as long as you have enough BIOLOGICAL and ACTIVE filtration (surface area for beneficial bacteria and stem/floating plants) then you can keep a larger stock since the chemicals will be...

well for all that I know 4 angels need 200 litters so no, don't add 2 more, panda garras like a different type of setup than a planted tank, do not add the Apistogramma or kribensis as they could bully the garras or be stressed out, especially if they don't have a cave. About it being...

well the betta imbellis lives in swamps and rice paddies and it is the species that WhistlingBadger will put in his aquarium

damn here apple snails are a native species so they do not really affect the local ecosystems but i can see how they would affect the rice paddies

yes! in fact, the first aquaponic crops were rice plantations with carp that served as animal protein in china thousand of years ago, and carp are no small fish. Also in other places there are snake heads, frogs and, as you said, freshwater prawns. However, usually in rice fields that are not so...

real rice paddy

I read it and let me tell you that you are a smart man, it sounds great and I am also flattered that you liked my ideas enough to incorporate them, using real rice plants sounds cool, if you ask me I would say that you should plant most of the space with the rice plants and only leave a few...

that sounds cool, but I have 1 concern tho, don't rice plants live 1 year? Edit: they are killed after a year to plant new ones but they can live up to 30 years so all good with that

based on this I decided to do a little research on rice paddies and as you just said! they are mainly a uniform color but as I suspected they are all mud and dirt with walls of stone so how about this? you use a fake background that simulates the texture or red rhyolite and then use fluorite...

there is also a lot of leaf litter so at the end you could choose the shade that you like the most as long as most of it is covered by dry leaves

I myself wanted to make a Sumatran biotope and from what I have seen and read there are too many rivers, lakes, and ponds to decide on 1 type of substrate, for example, I have come across some videos of ponds having reddish sand but not as red as rhyolites and some that have white sand, some...

Well to me it could be for 1 of 2 reasons. 1. Another fish is attacking her/him. 2. The tank decor is hurting her/him. By the way, don't add medicine to the tank if you don't know if it is an injury or an illness or which illness because the remedy could be worse than the ailment, especially if...

Well, I would say to go for a biotope since what's better than what nature has already made? but that would mean that you would have to choose between an Indian biotope (for the gourami and danio) or an Amazonian biotope (for the tetra) but since you have 2 Indian fish vs 1 Amazonian fish I will...

It all depends on the species, if they were hypostomus plecostomus then it would make sense for them to try and kill your corydoras since they are mainly carnivorous, if they were common bristlenose plecos (Ancistrus dolichopterus) then probably they were 2 males and that is why they kept...

As for tank mates in case you decide you want to make a biotope for these fish, then I would recommend the next species: 1. Of course the panda Garra themselves, keep 6-10 of them. 2. A good shoal, in this case, Parambassis pulcinella, also endemic to Myanmar, also living in fast-flowing...

Look dude, this is the garras natural habitat, they would not enjoy a planted aquarium with low flow.

Well, panda garras like a strong current of at least 10 times the volume of the tank per hour and they prefer a tank with not that many plants but rather lots of river rocks and large boulders full of biofilm, the parameters of the panda Garra are ok with the fish you have tho, if you want them...

Well, they are as easy as the other Ancistrus dolichopterus like your own albino ones, just get them a tank of at least 10 gallons for a pair, a place for the male to use as a cave or to convert into a cave (my male used a piece of wood and dug out his own cave), some driftwood, some epiphyte...

males don't kick out the eggs, on the contrary, they protect them religiously, the most probable thing is that the male chose a poor spot for the female to lay her eggs and so they were blown out by the current or by him fanning them, the reason you don't see the eggs being collected back into...

they will get a more yellowish color as they get older, they may even get a red spot on the nose or the forehead

she will most likely have more fry in a few days, if the males were harassing her then I can assume she did not find a comfortable quiet spot to have her fry. I would recommend you to catch her and separate her from the main group for a few days and to put her in a container with lots of stem...

I have a chlorella colony in my backyard that I use for feeding daphnia, guppy fry, and in the future, gourami fry but I recently bought some brine shrimp to try and breed them, and as I was investigating I read that they feed on algae so I used some crushed up spirulina tabs and they seemed to...

what fish do you have?

so in the past few days, a lot of good things have occurred to me. 1. my presumed dead assassin snail was found!, as some of you may remember I lost it in an accident, well, wouldn't you know it he was in my pond when I found it I almost cried out of happiness and I felt like a huge weight was...

are they alive? is the tank fresh or saltwater?

well those look like either 1. a shrimp, 2. a giant parasite. Can you get a higher resolution photo?

yes but remember to only use females or only 1 male as males can be territorial. For food i would go with powder food, brine shrimp, vinegar eel and daphnia. They are native to borneo so you can use java moss, bucephalandra, microsorum, salvinia natans and cryptocoryne sp. for the plants...

if your water is soft and acidic enough or you can make it so then you could have a school of boraras brigittae in a black water biotope with some snails and some species of ghost shrimp Edit: just try to only use females as males are terriotrial and fight during mating season if there isnt...

so it is not a dumbo guppy, you can get otocinclus but add no less than 6

about your guppies lets settle down wether or nor they are dumbo guppies If their tails and fins have a SHAPE like this then they are not dumbo guppies (the tail can be round, pointy, triangular, squared, etc) on the ohter hand if their SHAPE is like this (very large, even larger than the...

ok so first you want to have guppy, snails, bristlenose plecos, madagascar rainbow fish, glass catfish, khuli loaches and cherry shrimp so lets check the water parameters that the species like: guppy: temperature 17-30 degrees celsius, Ph 7.0-8.5, Gh 140-540 ppm snails: they dont really care as...