Valliserna Jungle

[three-fingers]

Really love this! Favourites have to be the red nose shrimp and pencilfish (ones in that 3rd pic of that last post).

You sure the hillstream loaches are going to do OK in there? IME they only last more than a few months in river set ups with a fast flow of water .

 

[Gill]

So your trick to getting all this lush growth is just strong lighting and a basic liquid fert routine? Nice

Yep thats it.

Really love this! Favourites have to be the red nose shrimp and pencilfish (ones in that 3rd pic of that last post).

You sure the hillstream loaches are going to do OK in there? IME they only last more than a few months in river set ups with a fast flow of water .

Thanks, I love watching the Pencil Fish.
So far the Hillstream's have been ok, busy cleaning the glass. if i see any signs of stress they can go in with the Denisoni Barbs outside. That is filtered by an otter pond pump (4000LPH)

 

[mark7616]

Whats the actual stocking of this tank?

 

[Gill]

Whats the actual stocking of this tank?

Stocking

4 Blue Rams - M/F
15 Threadfin Rainbows
40ish Coffee Bean Rasboras
5 Sparkling Gouramis
1 Pair of Heterandria Formosa and their Offspring
3 Dwarf Platties
2 Delphax Cories
3 Juli Cories
5 Hasborus Cories
1 Peacock Eel
2 Indo Rock Gobies
1 Pair Balloon Sailfin Mollies
7 Gold WCMM
7 One Lined Hockey Stick Pencil Fish
2 Wood Shrimp
3 Long Armed Shrimp
25 Cherry Shrimp
10 Red Nose Shrimp
4 Hillstream Loaches
Numerous Snails: Apple, Nerite, Ramshorns, Pest, BumbleBee
1 tropheous Moori

 

[GobyMaster]

You have a peacock eel with all those small fish and shrimp?

Doesn't he eat them?

Tank looks great, BTW!

 

[Gill]

You have a peacock eel with all those small fish and shrimp?

Doesn't he eat them?

Tank looks great, BTW!

Yeah Never had a problem with him, He comes out at night and roots around in the hair grass for food. I know he ahs been out and about as there will be hair grass floating at the top, where he has dug it up.
If he eats a few cherry shrimp and fry no loss. as they breed so fast.

 

[GobyMaster]

Oh, just double checking, you have some nice fish in there, and I'm sure it would suck if some of them got eaten!

Got any pics of your eel?

 

[Gill]

Oh, just double checking, you have some nice fish in there, and I'm sure it would suck if some of them got eaten!

Got any pics of your eel?

i do have some, will look for em tonight.

 

[GobyMaster]

Kewl, looking forward to it!

You certainly have some lucky fish!

 

[Miss Wiggle]

beautiful, looks fantastic and great photography as ever Gill

 

[Gill]

Kewl, looking forward to it!

You certainly have some luck fish!

Tooo Tired - Too Much work and OVertime to Pay for the New car and Pond. Need to travel alot this week visiting other Offices(last Minute thing) so will post sometime this week when i have time to sift thru the thousands of pixs i have.

beautiful, looks fantastic and great photography as ever Gill

Thanks.

I love taking pix of them now. But have to wait for evening as its so bright.

 

[swayzee_au]

Ive been looking around at this site for weeks, and just had to sign up when i saw your tank and WOW!!!
i think you have inspired alot of people i mean no c02 its so lucious (how ever you spell it lol) oh and you never did post
any pics of your eel, so post us a pic lol


cheers

 

[rossyboy]

That looks fantastic!

I use that plant in my cichlid setup, lovely when it thrives... do you feed the plant anything?

 

[Gill]

Ive been looking around at this site for weeks, and just had to sign up when i saw your tank and WOW!!!
i think you have inspired alot of people i mean no c02 its so lucious (how ever you spell it lol) oh and you never did post
any pics of your eel, so post us a pic lol


cheers

Thanks for the kind words. fish keeping is my only vice as don't drink, smoke party and all the wasteful stuff. so it leaves me to potter about with these tanks of mine.

I have transferred everything from this to a 5*4*2 now and that is coming aong nicely.

That looks fantastic!

I use that plant in my cichlid setup, lovely when it thrives... do you feed the plant anything?

Thanks, I feed them Nutrafin Plant gro and it seems to love it.

 

[dazsmith69]

great looking tank,

ive gone down the route of lots of small fish in a big tank, makes great viewing and gives them lots of space

loving the floating plants, what are they? i tried water hyacynth in mine, didnt work lol

ive got primailry liverbearers shrimp, corys and a trio of pearl gouramis as centrepiece, gona add some guppies and more plants

how bigs your tank? would be great to watch all the little fish in that jungle

Daz