Rio Paraguay biotope attempt

[navneethtk]

Since exams started, I thought I'd make a biotope so not too much attention to maintain is needed.

So I had karthik's extra clear tank and a few buckets of collected driftwood.

Made this with it. Planning for black neons with suspended warm yellow LED spotlight and some leaf litter.

Mods please move this to wherever its right. I didn't find a biotope sub forum

Comments appreciated.

Sent from my Panasonic P11

[SCORPIO]

Navneeth Ji, if you lighten some information about the biotope it will be helpful for all of us.

I liked the wood arrangement.

[navneethtk]

Navneeth Ji, if you lighten some information about the biotope it will be helpful for all of us.

I liked the wood arrangement.

thanks sir.

so rio paraguay actually has a lot of fish varieties, but since this is a small tank the only possible option are black neon tetras. and also the only ones within my budget.

seriouslyfishy states their habitat as:
"Small tributaries, creeks, areas of flooded forest and sand banks. The water in these biotopes is often stained brown with tannins and other chemicals released from decaying organic material, and is very acidic as a result."

some links show a lot of frogbit in their habitat along with hydrocotyle and e.quardicostatus at times, but i will only be adding frogbits.

[SCORPIO]

Thanks for sharing information.

[KarthikC]

Nav great tank again! Shouldn't we check for smaller options? I'll do some searching too.

Cheers,

Karthik


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[navneethtk]

Nav great tank again! Shouldn't we check for smaller options? I'll do some searching too.

Cheers,

Karthik


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Going with black neons. A dozen is fine.



So the leaves have sunk and released a bit of tannins making the water dark.
Added some frog bit as well since its one of the three plants that are biotope correct.

The other two are hydrocotyle lueclocpholia and echinodorus quadricostatus. Which I've chosen not to add.

Hope you guys like it..

Sent from my Panasonic P11

[navneethtk]

Finally added a dozen black neons. Sadly one jumped out in the night covered the top to prevent anymore suicides.


Sent from my Panasonic P11

[devchitra]

nice fishes.

[KarthikC]

Nice pic man!

Cheers,

Karthik


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[navneethtk]

They're doing well and day before they had a meal of ants which they predated extremely actively.

Sent from my Panasonic P11