firemouth biotope.

[toomanyfish]

Hi all,
would like to share with you a firemouth biotope.Central americans are fascinating me more and more and slowly and surely am moving towards them
Tank size 36 18 18
Light Philips Warm white tube
Filter eheim 2213 and eheim 2012 (Temporary as am upgrading to eheim 2217 soon)
Decor includes locally collected and store bought drift wood,pebbles cobbles and broken gravel of mixed sizes,and fine brown sand
Fish are 6 Firemouth cichlids and a large school of green swordtails.
I feed them hikari cichlid bio gold,beed,blackworms,Hikari food sticks and hikari excel 4 times a day
Still have to add some floating plants and leaf litter.
Do let me know what you think of this scape
Regards Hamza.

[Kaushik]

Superb authentic biotope... Few suggestion.. try to change the substrate with gray or black one to give it a dark look. May introduce small sizes cichlids like Rainbow Cichlids or Tomocichla sieboldii which I think you can managed as an biotope freak.

[parthapratim22]

If possible also update with tank decor and surrounding!!!

Not only for this tank but for your other tanks.

Lovely as usual.

[toomanyfish]

Sorry Partha did not follow what you saying?!

[toomanyfish]

@Kaushik
There is no black sand in a central american biotope..just brown sand mixed with pea size gravel and cobbles.The tank is anyways small for the 6 firemouths so dont wanna add more fish.hope i can get a good breeding pair out of these.

[parthapratim22]

Sorry for the confusion!!!

I will love to see the lighting systems, filtration systems, Stands...etc

[toomanyfish]

The lights are nothing special just 2 one foot philips tubes..
The stand is a regular iron stand and filter is a 2213 and eheim 2012.will be upgrading to a 2217 shortly

[jack]

Wow looks just perfect
The contrast of dark drifts and sand looks superb

As always your tanks are WOW

[toomanyfish]

thank you so much for the kind words.Appreciate it.

[toomanyfish]

some more pics