Since getting into the aquarium hobby a few years back I've always had a bit of thing for African river tanks! But it seems they're not done enough! This all probably started because kribensis were my first ever fish!
What I love about the African rivers is the variation of fish! From a number of stunning cichlids, barbs and tetras (most of which I've never seen in Australia except for Congos), synodontis catfish, the elephant noses, Ctenopoma, African butterfly's! There's so many great and unusual fish.
So I set up this tank as an African theme tank, here's a look at it and its inhabitants.
The butterfly, had a few problems with feeding, flow and where the fish wanted to be to avoid flow. That's been all sorted out with his little hula hoop made from airline. It keeps a spot free from plants in an area with no flow!
Also managed to get some relatively rare African tetra's! Yellow tail congo tetra's! In about 4 years of going to fish shops I haven't seen them once and apparently the don't show up regularly!
Really stunning fish, photos DO NOT do the justice! The males have electric blue down the back and an incredible lemon yellow tail, and the female is the brown one
And the last inhabitant is a jewel cichlid! Best addition so far! The tetras were SUPER shy before adding this guy weeks later! And now they're completely out of the shells! I only hope it remains a relaxed fish and doesn't slaughter anything! Fingers crossed as I know it was a bit of a gamble!
So on the whole, it's evolved into quite the little Congo themed tank and I'm really happy with how it's turned out.
What I love about the African rivers is the variation of fish! From a number of stunning cichlids, barbs and tetras (most of which I've never seen in Australia except for Congos), synodontis catfish, the elephant noses, Ctenopoma, African butterfly's! There's so many great and unusual fish.
So I set up this tank as an African theme tank, here's a look at it and its inhabitants.
The butterfly, had a few problems with feeding, flow and where the fish wanted to be to avoid flow. That's been all sorted out with his little hula hoop made from airline. It keeps a spot free from plants in an area with no flow!
Also managed to get some relatively rare African tetra's! Yellow tail congo tetra's! In about 4 years of going to fish shops I haven't seen them once and apparently the don't show up regularly!
Really stunning fish, photos DO NOT do the justice! The males have electric blue down the back and an incredible lemon yellow tail, and the female is the brown one
And the last inhabitant is a jewel cichlid! Best addition so far! The tetras were SUPER shy before adding this guy weeks later! And now they're completely out of the shells! I only hope it remains a relaxed fish and doesn't slaughter anything! Fingers crossed as I know it was a bit of a gamble!
So on the whole, it's evolved into quite the little Congo themed tank and I'm really happy with how it's turned out.
