In July 07, I got a 4ft aquarium second hand from one of my friends. It came with all the equipment I needed, which I gradually replaced with new stuff (at great expense), and was in a pretty bad state. Cleaning it and going through crises with gravel, disease, dying plants and territorial fish was a good learning experience. After a few months, it's now an established low-light planted community tank!
In the tank, I have:
1 bristlenose plec (Yuri)
1 rock shrimp
12 neon tetras
1 platy (Eric)
1 swordtail (Wilkinson)
11 rummy nose tetras
3 Bolivian ram cichlids
2 wild-type angelfish
5 sterba's corydoras
And now I've set up my second aquarium, something completely different! It's a biotope for a pair of Lamprologus ocellatus - shell-dwelling cichlids from Lake Tanganyika in Africa. It took me eight weeks and a 2-hour round trip to get hold of these aggressive little buggers, but they were well worth it. They recently had babies while I was on holiday, which I'm hoping to raise to adulthood and sell on.
I hope you like the pictures!
In the tank, I have:
1 bristlenose plec (Yuri)
1 rock shrimp
12 neon tetras
1 platy (Eric)
1 swordtail (Wilkinson)
11 rummy nose tetras
3 Bolivian ram cichlids
2 wild-type angelfish
5 sterba's corydoras
And now I've set up my second aquarium, something completely different! It's a biotope for a pair of Lamprologus ocellatus - shell-dwelling cichlids from Lake Tanganyika in Africa. It took me eight weeks and a 2-hour round trip to get hold of these aggressive little buggers, but they were well worth it. They recently had babies while I was on holiday, which I'm hoping to raise to adulthood and sell on.
I hope you like the pictures!