Food/energy cycles are far too complicated to recreate IMHO, especially in such a small and enclosed glass cage.
Interesting idea, natural environment idea, NEED EXPERTS
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interesting concept, but its hard to replicate then.
Thanks for all the response. If somehow it can be recreate in such a small pond, that would be awesome.
Thanks for all the response. If somehow it can be recreate in such a small pond, that would be awesome.
Hmm what if there was a barrier that predictor's couldn't cross? something like eggcrate? you would need a whole bunch of neon's and as their population gets too big they swim out into the open waters with a angle waiting????
that would be interesting.......what if the stock get to big and a disease wipe out the whole group?
i mean that happens in nature too so i don't think having a barrier would increase the likely hood at all.
Hopefully they would swim out if they are getting too crowed. I'm not sure if they would or not but it seems like an easy enough test to do.
Hopefully they would swim out if they are getting too crowed. I'm not sure if they would or not but it seems like an easy enough test to do.
Maybe keep the predator population dow to say 1 or 2 of the same sex so the small fish won't run out, but the the small fish might overbreed and run out of food....to complicated for my simple little mind, lol
what you would need would be massive and a tank/ system that size you would rarely see any fish. plus you will always need to add water and such.... Not the type of a tank someone could have at home.
Theres a problem with that theory as well. Neons and Cardinals are non-guarders and will instantly eat any egg and fry they see. In the wild, theyre constantly moving in large schools and the sort of just lay their eggs as they go, that way most of the eggs go uneaten. That wont be possible if you have a large number of fish that are confined in a smaller part of the tank. You would have to come up with a creative solution to allow a large percentage of the fry to fully develop. Also keep in mind that the school would have to grow as the Angelfish grew, which is something that could be hard to replicate in an aquarium.
One thing that I haven't seen addressed in this thread is the contribution from uplands into the aquatic ecosystem. There has been some research out of Colorado State University showing how important of a food source insects, falling in from streamside vegetation, is for trout fry. Think about hiking along a stream, and how many insects you see skating across the top of the water. IMO, any sustainable system would need to be some sort of riparium with uplands supporting bugs and worms. Also, nutrients from natural erosional processes occurring in the uplands would be needed to add nutrients to the system over time. The point is that aquatic systems don't exist in a vacuum. Even the ocean is taking in nitrogen and carbon from the atmosphere, and cycling it on a geologic time scale, though the inputs from land are likely minimal to far off-shore ecosystems.
