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I want to try to make a small plant low-tech aquarium.
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True, it all started with the fact that I married a girl who had a tank.
Since then, the tank became part of my window.
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Batjok said:
Formosa does not want to breed.
Therefore, I added rice fish.
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Do you feed your Heterandria formosa live food? Mine Neoheterandria elegans didn't really want to breed until I started hatching artemia for them. Recently I switched to Grindal worms and these seem to be even better. Also what's the tank temperature? Heterandria likes it on the cooler side from what I read about them.

Although as you've added another fish species to the tank, formosa fry will probably have problems to survive, they are very fragile and easy snack for bigger fish.
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mysiak said:
...bigger fish.
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What you write is very interesting.
The temperature is room, I do not specifically heat and do not cool - now t+24C.
In summer, I feed live Daphnia, in winter - Drosophila.
I do not breed worms - it is very difficult.
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A livebearer not breeding? That sounds impossible :)

Try https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/heterandria-formosa/
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Perhaps a livebearer breeds in other conditions.
She needs thick thickets of grass, less often to change water ...
And really, for me it is too small a fish.
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Are you sure you have a male in there ? I don't see a male in your pictures.
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mistergreen said:
... a male in your pictures.
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a male

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Batjok said:
What you write is very interesting.
The temperature is room, I do not specifically heat and do not cool - now t+24C.
In summer, I feed live Daphnia, in winter - Drosophila.
I do not breed worms - it is very difficult.
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I have no personal experience with them, but read a couple of articles/first hand experience reports and from what I recall, they do best at about 20-22C. 24C should be still fine.

How long do you have them? Sometimes it can take a few weeks or even months for first fry to appear (the same applies to Neoheterandria elegans).

Breeding of Grindal worms is actually quite easy, the hardest part is usually to obtain a starter culture. After that and a couple of "learning weeks" you'll have a few boxes with stable colonies of worms suitable for daily feeding of adult fish and their fry. :)
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Those rice fish look nice. I'll have to get some. My only worry is the rice fish out compete the livebearers for food and eat any babies.
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Formosa lives with me for a year.
I'll think about creating a more comfortable aquarium for formosa.
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Changed the name of the topic.
Formoses in another aquarium gave birth to one fish.
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I once did that using only garden soil..sifted so it was just the clay soils we have. No covering at all. By a window,with only one of the small bulb water lilies and a male Betta...So other plants that I can't recall.
What I remember most was that I would feed all my fish in multiple conventional tanks live worms and brine shrimp- cheap here by San Francisco bay. After he are all he could...I would put more in. A few hours later,the worms were half in the soil and half out..wiggling their red bodys. Sun by the window caused pearling.
That must have been the early 80's.
btw,The water with no filter at all..was semi clear. When it had no fish..rotifers showed up,daphnia.
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Stan510 said:
I once did that using only garden soil..sifted so it was just the clay soils we have. No covering at all. By a window,with only one of the small bulb water lilies and a male Betta...So other plants that I can't recall.
What I remember most was that I would feed all my fish in multiple conventional tanks live worms and brine shrimp- cheap here by San Francisco bay. After he are all he could...I would put more in. A few hours later,the worms were half in the soil and half out..wiggling their red bodys. Sun by the window caused pearling.
That must have been the early 80's.
btw,The water with no filter at all..was semi clear. When it had no fish..rotifers showed up,daphnia.
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This sounds like a wonderful and memorable tank. Nature at its best!

I have had dirt tanks without a gravel cover. They do fine. Garden soil is best for this, because the biofilms hold the small clay particles together. (Fresh organic soils will float to the surface.)
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Stan510 said:
btw,The water with no filter at all..was semi clear. When it had no fish..rotifers showed up,daphnia.
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Tank with the clay soils and without a filter are very interesting.
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Ouch! The forum has not been connected for three years - and now everything works! And I wanted to get into beekeeping.
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Aquarium on the window - no lamp, no filter - najas guadalupensis, guppy fry, food live daphnia -
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Batjok said:
Аквариум на окне - ни лампы, ни фильтра - наджас, мальки гуппи, food live daphnia -
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Beautiful tank. Is there a Latin or scientific name for the plant?
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johnwesley0 said:
a Latin or scientific name
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Sorry, corrected - najas guadalupensis
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