Hi all,
Having watched some of George Farmers recent videos, I'm really enjoying the new content, and something he said stuck with me on one of his videos where he interviews aquascapers.
In discussing the length of time aquascapes are maintained for, it was mentioned how many aquascapers set up a tank, for brief periods just to basically capture the end result for photo/video logging and then broken down again just as quickly. Not that there's anything wrong with this, but I realise I definitely have done this regularly and it can deprive of some long term benefits with established tanks.
That said, with the advent of the biotope forum and a separate thread discussing favourite fish types, I thought this could be a good opportunity to set up a (hopefully) longer term biotope aquascape for epiplatys dageti (red chin panchax) (dagets Killifish).
Previously the group of these I kept, I had fry emerge, but limited hiding spots and therefore they didn't survive. It's since been something of an objective to achieve this successfully.
Anyway, apologies for the wall of text, I have a dennerle 55l tank as a blank canvas, and I'd welcome input on what people would suggest for what I believe is a South/African Ghana biotope.
My initial thought process is sand, leaf litter, bolbitis, African wood types, if anyone also has good sources of info that's also appreciated!
Having watched some of George Farmers recent videos, I'm really enjoying the new content, and something he said stuck with me on one of his videos where he interviews aquascapers.
In discussing the length of time aquascapes are maintained for, it was mentioned how many aquascapers set up a tank, for brief periods just to basically capture the end result for photo/video logging and then broken down again just as quickly. Not that there's anything wrong with this, but I realise I definitely have done this regularly and it can deprive of some long term benefits with established tanks.
That said, with the advent of the biotope forum and a separate thread discussing favourite fish types, I thought this could be a good opportunity to set up a (hopefully) longer term biotope aquascape for epiplatys dageti (red chin panchax) (dagets Killifish).
Previously the group of these I kept, I had fry emerge, but limited hiding spots and therefore they didn't survive. It's since been something of an objective to achieve this successfully.
Anyway, apologies for the wall of text, I have a dennerle 55l tank as a blank canvas, and I'd welcome input on what people would suggest for what I believe is a South/African Ghana biotope.
My initial thought process is sand, leaf litter, bolbitis, African wood types, if anyone also has good sources of info that's also appreciated!