Show me your aquarium
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I know there are a few fishy types on here, but I don't recall seeing many aquarium photos.
Got any pics? I'm sure some of you have some beautiful aquariums. Do you have a favorite type of fish? Do you name your fish?
Mines only a 64 litre bow front with an external pump/filter and inline heater unit. I wanted to keep the tank free from pipes and wires where possible. All artificial plants apart from the marimo moss balls as my light set up is not very good and the tank is on the opposite side of the room from a window.
The tank is stocked with two cardinal tetras and four honey gouramis. I did have 6 cardinals and 4 marbled hatchet fish about four years ago, but over a period I lost them one by one until a few weeks ago when I was left with just two cardinals. I had planned to shut the tank down when all the cardinals went, but I had a change of heart and bought the four honeys a few weeks ago.
The gouramis seem to have settled in. It took them a few days before they were confident to come swimming up when I approached the tank.
Honey gouramis are the smallest gourami, even smaller than dwarfs, and should only grow to 4 or 5cm. They are a more peaceful than other gouramis, so hopefully I won't have any territorial problems. I think the one you see on the right might be a female as the body and fins are more rounded.
They have these funny hair like tentacle/feeler pectoral fins that they use to touch things with. Whilst they tend to ignore the cardinals, when they approach each other they lift up their "feelers" and touch each other in a way that reminds me of those little animations where people have drawn stick arms onto animals
I think they appreciate the tall plants and the floating plants as they like to sleep/rest amongst them at night.
Got any pics? I'm sure some of you have some beautiful aquariums. Do you have a favorite type of fish? Do you name your fish?
Mines only a 64 litre bow front with an external pump/filter and inline heater unit. I wanted to keep the tank free from pipes and wires where possible. All artificial plants apart from the marimo moss balls as my light set up is not very good and the tank is on the opposite side of the room from a window.
The tank is stocked with two cardinal tetras and four honey gouramis. I did have 6 cardinals and 4 marbled hatchet fish about four years ago, but over a period I lost them one by one until a few weeks ago when I was left with just two cardinals. I had planned to shut the tank down when all the cardinals went, but I had a change of heart and bought the four honeys a few weeks ago.
The gouramis seem to have settled in. It took them a few days before they were confident to come swimming up when I approached the tank.
Honey gouramis are the smallest gourami, even smaller than dwarfs, and should only grow to 4 or 5cm. They are a more peaceful than other gouramis, so hopefully I won't have any territorial problems. I think the one you see on the right might be a female as the body and fins are more rounded.
They have these funny hair like tentacle/feeler pectoral fins that they use to touch things with. Whilst they tend to ignore the cardinals, when they approach each other they lift up their "feelers" and touch each other in a way that reminds me of those little animations where people have drawn stick arms onto animals
I think they appreciate the tall plants and the floating plants as they like to sleep/rest amongst them at night.
Edited by AlexC1981 on Sunday 4th August 14:12
I thought we'd have a page of lovely pictures by now. Cheers, yes the honey gouramis are a pretty little fish. The cardinals must be four years old now and their numbers reduced slowly, so they haven't suddenly been plunged into isolation. I'm just guessing, but it might stress them out adding a fresh young school whilst they are in their autumn years!
When they go belly up I'll get a school of something else in. Maybe six rummy nose tetras or forktail rainbow fish.
Really want to avoid stocking too many fish at one time as I kept it more heavily stocked in my first year of fish keeping and I ended up with a pretty bad turnover of fish.
I planned to get just three honey gouramis originally, but I thought that four would reduce the chance of one fish getting singled out and bullied.
When they go belly up I'll get a school of something else in. Maybe six rummy nose tetras or forktail rainbow fish.
Really want to avoid stocking too many fish at one time as I kept it more heavily stocked in my first year of fish keeping and I ended up with a pretty bad turnover of fish.
I planned to get just three honey gouramis originally, but I thought that four would reduce the chance of one fish getting singled out and bullied.
I haven't seen green corys like that before. Very nice. I like the natural look to the tank. I bought some driftwood from The Range to put in my tank, but even though I soaked it in a tub for months and changed the water regularly it kept staining the water dark brown. Eventually I gave up on it and didn't put it in the tank.
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