Blackwater guru
Fish Fanatic
This is my 145 liter blackwater biotope aquarium that I set up during early january this year almost 5 months ago although the aquarium itself was purchased during late december 2019.
I also forgot to mention this is my first aquarium so far and I really love how natural and beautiful everything looks.
I currently have around 30 fishes in there with 15 of them being my wild caught cardinal tetras and 8 of them are corydoras duplicareus catfish.
In terms of filtration I use an undergravel filter manufactured by my local fish store and it has been working wonderfully thanks to maintenance such as water changes and gravel vacuuming being done once a week.
My goal with this tank is to simulate the living conditions of these fish which usually are rainforest blackwater rivers in south america and to do that I use roiboi tea bags that I put in my aquarium along with some dried botannicals such as dried oak leaves or dried seed pods.
Now what I am really interested in at the moment is to breed some of the fish that I have at the moment especially the tetras and to do that I need to create more optimal breeding conditions.
From what I have read cardinal tetras and especially wild caught specimens will breed once the rainy season starts which is something I would have to simulate in order to succeed.
If I ever breed my cardinal tetras how would I simulate the rainy season in a home aquarium?