Other countries, other rules...

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niethammer

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Hi everybody,

I´ve looked through a lot of pics of Your tanks and fish. If You are interested in viewing what we do here in good old Germany You may visit one of my favorite forums,www.aquaristik-talk.de
 
It all in German. I can't read German :sad: .
 
niethammer said:
Hi everybody,

I´ve looked through a lot of pics of Your tanks and fish. If You are interested in viewing what we do here in good old Germany You may visit one of my favorite forums,www.aquaristik-talk.de
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Unfortunately, I can't read German either. I really tried on e-bay Germany last night. Maybe you could just tell us some of the fish-keeping practices that you do there that are different. You could also tell us where to look on the site to see pictures of tanks.
 
Well google will translate the web page, unfortunately it doesn't translate the stuff written in the forums. Ah well.
 
Hi everybody,

by clicking http://www.aquaristik-talk.de/coppermine/index.php?cat=1 You will see some German Tanks :joke:
However, plastic plants are indeed a no-no in Germany. The goal is to keep the fish as close as possible in an environment with watervalues like there original environment. That also means no strange colours of the ground etc. You will find there a lot of "Southamerica-tanks", "Amazonas-Tanks", "Black-water-tanks", "Australia/Papua-Neuguinea-Tanks" etc. I have two southamericas with Loricaidae, Chariciformes, Apistogrammas... and one Papua-Newguinea with Rainbowfish (melanotaenia boesemani) and"blue-eyes" like pseudomugil furcatus etc. Water values are very important, sometimes they have an almost "religious" character. Germans, especially those with not very much experience, tend to be quite intollerant in terms of different ways to breed fish, those with more experience usually know about the various ways of keeping fish happy...
 
Well, the reason I use plastic plants in my tank is because I really can't afford the upkeep for live plants at the moment :p:. With all the lighting, fertilizers, CO2, etc I'd need, in addition to caring for the fish is a liitle more than I can handle at the moment. I do hope to eventualy move to live plants at a later date though.

I can totaly understand why you would want to keep the ecosystem as intact as possible, and I too hate the glue and pink colored gravel :laugh:
 
Hi Xielos,

are plants very expensive in Your country? BTW, You can use also homemade bio-CO², that costs you just a few pennies, it should be less than 2 $ for 2 month. But You don´t need necessarily CO², sometimes, depending on Your water and Your plants, it will also do without.
 
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