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[AquaBarb]

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I've been keeping up with a bit of maintenance on this tank but lat night had quick a big chop back, I've got quite a lot of cladophora algae in here and it had taken over the right hand third of the tank so I've removed nearly all of the dragon stone, not sure if I'll put any back in or not... I do have a decent chunk of them around but got a couple of other things.

The tank does have a good variety of algaes in here as well... black brush, staghorn, bit of green on the glass and the cladophora that I mentioned (though is that a true algae?) I've added my old favourite Limnopilla Sessilfora as well to try and help. I had to take out 90% of the Valis I had in here as it was really failing to the algae, I might try and get some Valis Nana which seems to be more available these days.

Chopping the plants back has made me realise I think I have lost some of my Red Dwarf Rasboras, I think I can see 3 (there should be 6) but as I type this I think I can now see 4... the tank is still super dense with plants and they just live in there and swim around in pairs, so I'm not 100% all 6 are in there or not. The Rosy Loaches are too fast to count properly but confident all 12 are present and correct. Shimp seem to have taken a hit to the population since I added the Rosy Loaches, but I suppose its more mouths isnt it I am feeding more these days so hopefully it will bounce back.

Wills

Nice wills hows the other projects going?

The Monstera looks to be growing nicely here, i do like the look of terrestrial plants above tanks. Monstera and ivy grows well for me but palms and peace lillys nots so well.

Good to hear about the rosy loaches still alive and well. Have they started to put weight on now?

 

[Wills]

Nice wills hows the other projects going?

The Monstera looks to be growing nicely here, i do like the look of terrestrial plants above tanks. Monstera and ivy grows well for me but palms and peace lillys nots so well.

Good to hear about the rosy loaches still alive and well. Have they started to put weight on now?

I nearly went to get some fish for the Mbuna tank this weekend but the cycle isnt totally ready - I did a 50% water change Friday night, tested the water Saturday morning 1ppm of Nitrite and I didn't have time that day to do another water change and get to Wharf and back so topped up the ammonia and waived it on for hopefully this weekend.

The room the Nicaraguan tank is going into is all decorated and sorted now but I really want a new filter for it! It's got a 407 and a JBL one but I want an Oase 850 for the external heater and easy maintenance. A few good-priced ones on Facebook but nothing nearby.

I think the loaches are doing better so I'm holding of medicating - would love to find some more of the Rasboras but sort of knew I might not find them again... CPDs or Emerald Rasboras are biotope correct for these which I might try at some point.

Had a massive power cut today in our village - went off at about 12:30pm came back about 9:30pm. Out all day couldnt do anything with the filters and didnt get home until power back on. Fish seem ok so far but I'll test all my water in the morning - filter on the Mbuna tank will have likely stalled, at least the two populated tanks are stuffed with plants at the moment.

 

[Wills]

It’s been a while since I updated this. But I’ve done a full rescape so thought I’d add pics.

Fish seem so much more active in here lots more swimming room now as the old one had become really over grown.

I’d love one more species in here but not sure what. I personally feel any fish from Myanmar streams are good candidates for me so I might try some black tiger badis but tempted by an other schooler. The red dwarfs are so hard to find I’d love to add more of them but I’m tempted by emerald raboras or rummy nose rasboras too

 

[MattW]

There are quite a few species of fish you could choose from - https://aquadiction.world/countries/myanmar/

Sawbwa are a great fish. The only thing I'd say that is an issue is male-to-female ratio's. I had at one point 5 males to 1 female (females are a rarity to find it seems). That quickly became 3 males then 2. Luckily I bred them in a separate tank and got around 20+ fry. 9 of which were females which greatly helped reduce sparring and casualties.

 

[Wills]

There are quite a few species of fish you could choose from - https://aquadiction.world/countries/myanmar/

Sawbwa are a great fish. The only thing I'd say that is an issue is male-to-female ratio's. I had at one point 5 males to 1 female (females are a rarity to find it seems). That quickly became 3 males then 2. Luckily I bred them in a separate tank and got around 20+ fry. 9 of which were females which greatly helped reduce sparring and casualties.

Thanks for the link really interesting site!

Its the shame about Sawbwa isnt it that the males don't co-exist - understandable though. I have to admit I've been tempted to try breeding my Red Dwarfs but never bred egg scatterers before...

Theres a region in Thailand called Krabi Province that is a good candidate for my waters too - limestone pools that glow blue from the calcium levels. Espei Rasboras, Betta Simplex and one of the small Gourami come from there - I can't remember which Gourami it is though...

I've not researched it enough to be totally happy but I think Vietnam has a lot of limestone streams that aquarium fish come from so interested in a bit of research there perhaps too.

I can tell that the fish I keep now must live in dense vegitation as they really don't like the new open water area I've made... I'd quite like to find something that might be more confident in that area of the tank as its only the cherry shrimp that go there right now.

Wills