My Amazon Bio Tope Getting Started

[Sub-tropic-discus]

This is my 400l Amazon biotope that has been my project for ages now, and ive finaly got water and a few plants in, more plants will be going in soon, hopefully tomorrow.
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[jacko32]

 

[Sub-tropic-discus]

this is it with sand and 3D background and wood

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here it is with plants and water
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[jacko32]

hi what is the plant you have on the wood ?

 

[Sub-tropic-discus]

hi what is the plant you have on the wood ?

Anubias

 

[jacko32]

hi what is the plant you have on the wood ?

Anubias

oh right i was looking for a south american rhizome plant as i wanted to do a south american tank for my apistogramma but all i could find was anubias which are all west african
sorry if this is bad news as it cant be a amazon biotape with anubias in there

 

[Sub-tropic-discus]

hi what is the plant you have on the wood ?

Anubias

oh right i was looking for a south american rhizome plant as i wanted to do a south american tank for my apistogramma but all i could find was anubias which are all west african
sorry if this is bad news as it cant be a amazon biotape with anubias in there

oh well

 

[jacko32]

hi what is the plant you have on the wood ?

Anubias

oh right i was looking for a south american rhizome plant as i wanted to do a south american tank for my apistogramma but all i could find was anubias which are all west african
sorry if this is bad news as it cant be a amazon biotape with anubias in there

oh well

yeah i sacked the biotape idea and just decided to get mostly rhizomes instead

 

[Scrotius]

any plans for stocking?
I started my 250L off with a similar idea "Amazon Biotope", I wasn't too strict with tributaries and such though, all the fish are amazons and the plants originally were, then got eaten

 

[jacko32]

im going with apistogramma baenschi bleeding heart tetras and black widdow tetras possible silver dollars but not sure yet and possible hatchet fish for the top zone
sorry if i high jacked your post

 

[Scrotius]

im going with apistogramma baenschi bleeding heart tetras and black widdow tetras possible silver dollars but not sure yet and possible hatchet fish for the top zone
sorry if i high jacked your post

cool cool, yeah I was actually asking Mr Discus lol
won't the Dollars end up dwarfing everything?
I think if I ever ended up keeping Dollars they'd have to either be in a massive tank with much larger fish or be the centrepiece themselves

 

[jacko32]

im going with apistogramma baenschi bleeding heart tetras and black widdow tetras possible silver dollars but not sure yet and possible hatchet fish for the top zone
sorry if i high jacked your post

cool cool, yeah I was actually asking Mr Discus lol
won't the Dollars end up dwarfing everything?
I think if I ever ended up keeping Dollars they'd have to either be in a massive tank with much larger fish or be the centrepiece themselves

yeah i no you were talking to discus just thought i would stick my 2 penneth in lol
the silver dollars are just a thought they eat plants so probs a no go
which fish ate your plants

 

[Scrotius]

im going with apistogramma baenschi bleeding heart tetras and black widdow tetras possible silver dollars but not sure yet and possible hatchet fish for the top zone
sorry if i high jacked your post

cool cool, yeah I was actually asking Mr Discus lol
won't the Dollars end up dwarfing everything?
I think if I ever ended up keeping Dollars they'd have to either be in a massive tank with much larger fish or be the centrepiece themselves

yeah i no you were talking to discus just thought i would stick my 2 penneth in lol
the silver dollars are just a thought they eat plants so probs a no go
which fish ate your plants

A mixture of snails and an early algae bloom weakened them, then I got some Cabomba and the cichlids joined in eating it, I'm now trying Java Ferns, fingers crossed
spooky coincidence, I'm also from 'Uddersfield - Lindley, not there anymore though

 

[c-dub]

Wow brilliant tank, very classy... looks very similar to my AquaStyle 980T only a bit bigger!

 

[jacko32]

im going with apistogramma baenschi bleeding heart tetras and black widdow tetras possible silver dollars but not sure yet and possible hatchet fish for the top zone
sorry if i high jacked your post

cool cool, yeah I was actually asking Mr Discus lol
won't the Dollars end up dwarfing everything?
I think if I ever ended up keeping Dollars they'd have to either be in a massive tank with much larger fish or be the centrepiece themselves

yeah i no you were talking to discus just thought i would stick my 2 penneth in lol
the silver dollars are just a thought they eat plants so probs a no go
which fish ate your plants

A mixture of snails and an early algae bloom weakened them, then I got some Cabomba and the cichlids joined in eating it, I'm now trying Java Ferns, fingers crossed
spooky coincidence, I'm also from 'Uddersfield - Lindley, not there anymore though

im from quarmby lol yeah spooky did you go to salindine nook do you know my best mate david mcdermot