Beastije
Fish Addict
This tank doesnt photograph well, but I will make a journal for it.
I set it up last July 2024 and the idea was to try something new. No aquatic plants, no light, no heater, jus ta bunch of sticks and stones. Initially I made it with corydoras in mind, but it turns out, I cant keep them alive. Over the past 4 years I have had and lost all the corydoras I have ever had. Right now, out of my six remaining tanks, I have few remaining pygmy corydoras in one of them, though they are shy, and I am never trying any cories again. I think I might underfeed or the other fish eat all the food, or I really dont know. Does not matter, I am not trying them again and I have no more of them.
Therefore this tank changed inhabitants and now is on the final setup, I hope, at least for some time.
80 cm x 35 cm x 35 cm which makes it 70 liters or so. Willow branches, stones, leaf litter and three house plants, peace lily, sinongium and philodendron
I moved my 4 year old adult tylomelania snail with damaged shell here after I sold the other 3 adults and 25 babies, and suddenly, there along the 3 babies that I didn notice in previous tank and moved here, now there are like 10 more babies. In 22°C and soft water! how....
Two three year old bamboo shrimp, 3 remaining 4 year old ember tetras (that I dont like, boooring fish) and I accidentally moved some shrimp here with the tank sponge I had running in another tank last year, and now there are like 30 of them. How, there are no hiding places???
The final inhabitant list is:
7 mango (rosy) loaches Physoschistura mango
16 norman lampeye killifish
This makes the embers the largest fish in the tank btw
the since the lampeyes are still too small and the mango loaches are absolutely adorable, entertaining, zooming all over, super active AND colored up nicely, at least the males.
I have quarantined the lampeyes in another tank for the past month, the seller sold me mostly fry to be honest, so I was feeding them up with daily bbs or microworm meals, and they are eating nicely, no issues with dry food, illness or anything, so they went here. The mangos were super interested in them when I acclimated them and will swim amongst them or any other fish .I used to have a group of wcmm which were two times the size of the mango loaches, they were never shy, always in the middle of the school, eating from the middle of the tank
All the fish are too fast to properly photograph and with the tank having no light and no background it makes it a tank just for my pleasure, as I enjoy watching it, but it doesnt translate to the internet. In the summer there will be a time in the day when the sun will hit the tank for a little while. That is why there are some nerite snails there too (my oldest, 6 year old, size of a golf ball )
the red fish in the last picture is a mango loach, not an ember tetra
I set it up last July 2024 and the idea was to try something new. No aquatic plants, no light, no heater, jus ta bunch of sticks and stones. Initially I made it with corydoras in mind, but it turns out, I cant keep them alive. Over the past 4 years I have had and lost all the corydoras I have ever had. Right now, out of my six remaining tanks, I have few remaining pygmy corydoras in one of them, though they are shy, and I am never trying any cories again. I think I might underfeed or the other fish eat all the food, or I really dont know. Does not matter, I am not trying them again and I have no more of them.
Therefore this tank changed inhabitants and now is on the final setup, I hope, at least for some time.
80 cm x 35 cm x 35 cm which makes it 70 liters or so. Willow branches, stones, leaf litter and three house plants, peace lily, sinongium and philodendron
I moved my 4 year old adult tylomelania snail with damaged shell here after I sold the other 3 adults and 25 babies, and suddenly, there along the 3 babies that I didn notice in previous tank and moved here, now there are like 10 more babies. In 22°C and soft water! how....
Two three year old bamboo shrimp, 3 remaining 4 year old ember tetras (that I dont like, boooring fish) and I accidentally moved some shrimp here with the tank sponge I had running in another tank last year, and now there are like 30 of them. How, there are no hiding places???
The final inhabitant list is:
7 mango (rosy) loaches Physoschistura mango
16 norman lampeye killifish
This makes the embers the largest fish in the tank btw
the since the lampeyes are still too small and the mango loaches are absolutely adorable, entertaining, zooming all over, super active AND colored up nicely, at least the males.I have quarantined the lampeyes in another tank for the past month, the seller sold me mostly fry to be honest, so I was feeding them up with daily bbs or microworm meals, and they are eating nicely, no issues with dry food, illness or anything, so they went here. The mangos were super interested in them when I acclimated them and will swim amongst them or any other fish .I used to have a group of wcmm which were two times the size of the mango loaches, they were never shy, always in the middle of the school, eating from the middle of the tank
All the fish are too fast to properly photograph and with the tank having no light and no background it makes it a tank just for my pleasure, as I enjoy watching it, but it doesnt translate to the internet. In the summer there will be a time in the day when the sun will hit the tank for a little while. That is why there are some nerite snails there too (my oldest, 6 year old, size of a golf ball
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