Amazon Abyss

[willtang3000]

i wld of swam back on that boat as soon as i heard there was camen and a giant catfish waiting in there and there crazy enough to go looking for it

 

[bunjiweb]

Thought it was pretty good! some lovely fish made an appearence and i surprised myself by knowing the names of nearly everyone! woooo I even manged to identify the pike cichlid before the comentator said it...lol.

I will watch tomorrows with great interest...

Ben

 

[Gill]

It was Ok for the 1st EP.

I too found myself naming all the fish b4 the commentator, The Rents were interested in any of the fish I have Kept,

Can't wait for tonights Plecs and Pananques.

 

[SirMinion]

Freshwater sponges!
Why wasn't I told?
I could have a freshwater 'marine' tank!

What other freshwater inverts has the amazon been hiding from me?

Looking forward to tonight's program.

 

[ferrikins]

Been in my eliment, with "animal park goes wild" BBC2 6pm, "The Zoo" Sky Travel (freeview channel 11) 6:30pm, and "Amazon Abyss" BBC 1 7PM.



AAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW animal heven.

 

[CFC]

Freshwater sponges!
Why wasn't I told?
I could have a freshwater 'marine' tank!

What other freshwater inverts has the amazon been hiding from me?

Looking forward to tonight's program.

Your mind thinks like mine, straight away i was working out what sort of tank size and filtration a sponge bed biotope would need and which species of fish could i obtain to keep it biotopically correct.

Shame we'll probably never see any live Amazon sponges for sale

 

[Waterloo Kid]

I'd like a swim with Kate Humble!

WK

 

[CFC]

wouldnt we all

 

[Aylana]

I thought it was pretty good for the first episode, although a bit dragged out at the beginning. Unfortunately I am at work tonight and my video recorder doesn't work so I will miss tonights episode.

 

[Waterloo Kid]

Being TV they are going to go after and spend all the airtime on big, spectacular animals. I'd like to see more of the less sizeable stuff; say a shoal of angelfish or thousands of tetra or something. But no, they go after a 7 foot long man eating catfish. What a surprise! Come on BBC stop the dumbing down. I hope the next few episodes are more enlightening and less spectacular. The fact that a number of people on this thread could name most of the fish says something about the types of fish so far featured (not exactly rare!).
On the other hand I was suprised at the amount of activity shown by the knife fish. I've only seen them in lfs where they seem very docile and slow. The wild fish had very fast fin movement in comparison. Nice to see common fish in their natural state (or as natural as you can get with a billion candlepower light shining in your face).
After seeing the show the wife has decided that I can no longer have an Amazon biotope tank. A brown cube in the corner is not what she wants. Funny how the human race tries to pretty up nature to its liking. I'd be interested to know if ANYONE runs a biotope tank that looks anything like what was shown last night.

WK

 

[CFC]

Actually my 200g isnt far off that, its not quite a Amazon biotope at the moment as i have the fish from my ex African biotope bunking in with them and i went with a Australian arowana since silvers get too big but the basic lay out is like that found in a section of the Amazon. The whole tank is only lit with one 4 foot tube which is a dim red in colour (looks more brown) and the water is a golden brown tanin stained colour, the decor is made of only natural looking pieces of wood and the substrate is plain coloured sand, there is also no live plants which is the most important thing, live plants cannot grow in that dark murky water so all these people who claim to have a "natural planted Amazon biotope" actually have no such thing

 

[Cat]

Anybody watching this ?

Yuck those things like wriggly worms ,no wonder those men looked scared

 

[Matchu]

That was pretty interesting, I only turned on at the bit where it was showing the puffer puffing up.

Good programme

 

[bunjiweb]

Looked like Figure of 8 puffers from what i could see, hard to tell though...

Didnt see much of the massive panaque plecs which i was really dissapointed by....

Im actually very dissapointed how short the episodes have been.... Why didnt they do a 3 day series of hour long programmes, that would have been much better.

Ben

 

[Paul_MTS]

so anyone else think the freshwater dolphins where butt ugly??

it is dispointing how they do extremely small clips of fish i am interested in.

not sure about the puffer, F8's are brackish anyways so surely would be in a different area unless they were breeding?