A New Start

[shroob]

Hi all,

Long time since I've been here, but I've kept checking the pages. To cut a long story short I had some real life issues that got in the way of fishkeeping and I'm hoping I'm on the road to recovery now, so thought I'd return to the site I used to visit so often.

I've had a massive downsize from approximately 1,250 (5 tanks) litres of water to approximately 530 (2 tanks) litres of water.

I decided to set up one aquarium in the living room as a 'show tank' - well thats the theory. The tank only has 1 fish - a Paratilapia polleni, I'm undecided on tankmates at the moment, thinking of some rainbows for dithers, some sort of catfish and maybe a BN plec.

All pictures taken without flash - I'm really hoping that this fish develops into a good looking fish, its only around 1-2" at the moment but I think it has potential.

Full tank shot:

Close ups of the Polleni:

Spitting out sand after eating a pellet:

Best picture showing its true colours/potential:

 

[Fishy96]

hey
tank look great and i think you fish looks fantastic and i hope he or she turns out to be a beautiful fish
will you be adding any more fish to the tank?



Fishy96

 

[Duck and Dive]

wow! That fish is gorgeous!

 

[shroob]

hey
tank look great and i think you fish looks fantastic and i hope he or she turns out to be a beautiful fish
will you be adding any more fish to the tank?



Fishy96

I'm undecided as yet, thinking about an albino BN plec - will stand out against the background hopefully, I did consider a golden nugget but am wary due to their reputation of being less than hardy, plus how it would mix with the polleni as well as how it would be with the plants. I'm leaning towards a group of rainbowfish at the moment.

wow! That fish is gorgeous!

Cheers

 

[Enki]

wow, a very nice tank

 

[razer121]

thats a real nice fish!

 

[paul_219]

very nice fish looking great

 

[Geoff1991]

Looking good mate

 

[shroob]

wow, a very nice tank

thats a real nice fish!

very nice fish looking great

Looking good mate

Thanks all.
Any ideas on tankmates for me to consider? At the moment its either 6 or so rainbows/giant danio/congo tetra for dithers and maybe a plec or catfish.

 

[angelmouse]

Hey shroob your polleni is looking great, beautiful colours
regards Angel

 

[shroob]

Hey shroob your polleni is looking great, beautiful colours
regards Angel

Thanks

 

[sjolliff]

Nice fish can it be kept with plecs and corys, gouramis etc?
if so i might have some