50G Tanganyika Planted Riparium
This new journal thread is a continuation of others that I have been maintaining on a couple of other sites off-and-on for a couple of years. Here's the link...
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=28088&p=257343&hilit=riparium#p257343
I have cycled a few different kinds of fish through this planted setup, but it has always housed the group of seven Synodontis lucipinnis that are still in there.
I am redoing the planting and the fish stocking once again. I will keep the group of Synodontis, but this time I want to combine them with one or more Tanganyika cichlids to make something more like a biotope representation. The addition of plants growing above the water is unusual for a Tanganyika aquarium display, but I intend for the setup to be more or less representative of a rocky near-shore environment where plants might not be so far away.
Here's an old picture of this tank with the complete riparium planting.
I have a few pictures of my recent work redoing the tank.
This picture shows the tank from a few months ago after I removed the existing riparium plants.
And here's another one from just a week ago showing the new riparium plants and previous rock hardscape removed.
I'll have more pictures on the way! My first priority right now is to figure out some Tanganyika cichlids that will combine well with the catfish. Does anybody have any ideas?
Cheers and thanks!
This new journal thread is a continuation of others that I have been maintaining on a couple of other sites off-and-on for a couple of years. Here's the link...
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=28088&p=257343&hilit=riparium#p257343
I have cycled a few different kinds of fish through this planted setup, but it has always housed the group of seven Synodontis lucipinnis that are still in there.
I am redoing the planting and the fish stocking once again. I will keep the group of Synodontis, but this time I want to combine them with one or more Tanganyika cichlids to make something more like a biotope representation. The addition of plants growing above the water is unusual for a Tanganyika aquarium display, but I intend for the setup to be more or less representative of a rocky near-shore environment where plants might not be so far away.
Here's an old picture of this tank with the complete riparium planting.
I have a few pictures of my recent work redoing the tank.
This picture shows the tank from a few months ago after I removed the existing riparium plants.
And here's another one from just a week ago showing the new riparium plants and previous rock hardscape removed.
I'll have more pictures on the way! My first priority right now is to figure out some Tanganyika cichlids that will combine well with the catfish. Does anybody have any ideas?
Cheers and thanks!