bratyboy2

do you a a spotted leaf fish in there?

oregon aqua

Its a Ctenopoma acutirostre a.k.a. Spotted Climbing Perch, Spotted Bushfish and a couple other common names im sure. From what I understand its related to leaf fish but not the same. He is pretty cool always hides under the mossy branch and watches the room, he eats my flake food (i have been told its not common) and brine shrimp and unfortionitly he also likes neons cardnial tetras and amano shrimp

I'm bored so here is some pics.








My gourami isnt doing very good been like this for 2 days but still alive. not sure what i should do


and my hidden sword

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here is some close ups of the rocks. maybe someone can tell me what they are?




These new smilies ROCK!!!

oregon aqua

7 Day UPDATE: added new plants from Robert at aquabotanic the Pogostemon stellatus was a nice big portion and looks great! the Ranunculus inundatus is acclimating and has melted a little but i think its going to look great when it starts to grow

the dwarf guramie (can't spell) i finally put to sleep. i liked him alot and i didnt want to watch him suffer anymore.

water has cleared, my mistakes are fixed, and so some new pics of tank, plants and fishies. In no order what so ever.

cs_gardener

It's looking great! I love the rocks and the overall layout. I like the idea of some Anubias in there for contrast. Maybe a Nuphar japonica, the large, light green, translucent leaves would be a great foil for your spiky plants and it's easy to train it to stay a certain height.

The Ranunculus inundates is great (I think it may be what I traded to Robert). Mine always heads toward the back of the aquarium since the tank is in front of a window and it wanted the sunlight - darn plant ignoring my scaping plans. Anyway, as long as it gets sufficient light it's easy to grow.

oregon aqua

Thanks jackh


thanks cs_gardener
my luck with anubias has been less the spectaculer! i seem to be able to grow BBA on it more then i can grow it by itself. But i think an larger leaf anubias might look pretty cool if i could figure out where to fit it. and keep it whiped into shape

I omited two plants from my list i just relized. they both whree plants that didnt handle the algea outbreak and subsiquient bleach dip very well. they are both hidden but in the tank.

on the left is ECHINODORUS PARVIFLORUS 'TROPICA'
on the right is Cryptocoryne moehlmannii

Both are hidden because im not sure they will make it.

Sorry for spelling my spell checker not work today.

krisco

very beautiful.

Tex Gal

Nice. I like your newly added plants. What is the plant in you next to the last px from the bottom? It's the one in the middle background in your full tank shot.

oregon aqua

Pogostemon stellatus the tops are just yesterday starting to get color. im trying my hand at some harder plants this time.

oregon aqua

UPDATE: 14 days

little algae but nothing bad.
lost a couple more fish, jumped tank. all water test i can do come out normal except Gh i cant get a reading.
the hidden tropica sword is not looking good. everything else is pretty good.

PICTURES

foofooree

Your tank is growing in nicely. I like your rocks, are they pagoda stone?