Your current Fish tank Setups!
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Soldato
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No new additions to my 6-foot freshwater African tank for quite a while, been gradually losing fish in there over the last ~7 years, most recent loss was my African Knife Fish that I'd had for ~13 years. All that's left now is four Silver Distichodus, a Synodontis angelicus and a Synodontis schoutedeni. Out of nowhere, the "golfball stomach" S. schoutedeni has a huge open sore behind its right eye, nearly the size of a 50p coin. At the moment, I'm guessing it's a fight injury with the other syno, but I can't be sure... Normally both are very secretive fish, unlike the distichodus group, that will normally swim over to me if I'm in front of the tank. 
Last time I had an open sore like that in that tank was when I still had my quartet of Euchilichthys catfish, one poor fish came to the tank front with an open sore ~7x3cm and died the next day.
Trying to decide what to do for the best, I've added a bit more tank furniture to reduce line of sight, but part of me wonders about risking moving the schoutedeni to keep my 15 year old Leopard Bushfish company despite the dangers of stress making things worse.
Last time I had an open sore like that in that tank was when I still had my quartet of Euchilichthys catfish, one poor fish came to the tank front with an open sore ~7x3cm and died the next day.
Trying to decide what to do for the best, I've added a bit more tank furniture to reduce line of sight, but part of me wonders about risking moving the schoutedeni to keep my 15 year old Leopard Bushfish company despite the dangers of stress making things worse.
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Bristlenose Catfish. Great algae eaters.The plants are almost doing too well, need a trim soon:
The Siamese algae eaters are really fun to watch, they are so active. A couple of the loaches were out today too, I guess they haven’t settled into their nocturnal routine yet.
I have a pothos plant arriving soon, will be another good addition to the top of the tank and should be great at filtering the water.
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Really pleased with these plants, have added some Pothos now too:
Got some new corals on Friday, glad to say they've settled in.
Unfortunately I lost both my fireshrimp and I'm not sure why. I had an ICP test done and everything seemed fine.
Going to monitor the tank and see about maybe getting some more next weekend.
Unfortunately I lost both my fireshrimp and I'm not sure why. I had an ICP test done and everything seemed fine.
Going to monitor the tank and see about maybe getting some more next weekend.
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Just noticed you have some Inch Plants growing out of the tank, we've had some growing in a standard pot by the east facing window for a while and I wondered about adding some to fish tanks to help mop up nutrients plus give a bit of colour
Unfortunately the chalice is not doing well at all. I've moved it to a lower area of the tank to see if it recovers.
On the plus side of things, after months of hunting, I finally got a Pitho crab.
Who knows if he's appetite will change, but right now I'm so happy he's munching on the bubble algae!
On the plus side of things, after months of hunting, I finally got a Pitho crab.
Who knows if he's appetite will change, but right now I'm so happy he's munching on the bubble algae!
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Decided to add some sticks above the water surface for the plants to climb up now that they are growing rapidly.
