Well, I'm also a lot older than you are. My parents got me hooked on fishkeeping. They started off back in the 1960's. If you've clicked the link to my website I've send you for a while ago, you could know that I'm keeping myself busy with this hobby for so long. Started off as a young boy. And I never got bored of it.
Wow. I'm actually planning to have a much bigger tank and build an Orinoco biotope for my existing cardinal tetras in the future. Have you built biotopes before?
I have build biotope tanks in the past. And those were inspired by my trips to South- and Central America. I'm a huge fan of wild livebearer species. Most scaped tanks at households don't reflect their biotopes by any means... Most livebearers live in less attractive biotopes, to be honest.
Hmm... Have you tried an Orinoco biotope? Its educational value can help at times. Never been to the Orinoco itself or South America, but try and remember the underwater world that surrounds it. Once you are finished, you could display it at a fish show.
Well, two weeks ago when we had the Vivarium (vivaristic expo), a lot of biotope tanks were displayed.
Ooh, I haven't been there. I'm not from the Netherlands however. How many accurate biotope tanks were there at the expo?
Haven't counted the number, tbh. But lots of them...
I love it! Would go there one day. What was the best tank (freshwater only) you have seen at the expo?
The big show tank in the middle on the ground floor of the expo. They called it the jungle tank.
What fish were in there?
Large cichlids. Don't remember their names.
Maybe Apistogramma, dwarf South American cichlids I guess. Was it a biotope for Apistogramma cichlids or not?
No, apistogrammas. Those are way too small. It was a mangrove biotope. But they called it a jungle biotope because of all the live plants that were besides and on top of the tank. But with this mangrove tank, the light was beautifully playing because of the roots and branches in the water.
