Akysis vespa

[brodnig]

Hi all,

Has anyone had any experiences with these in planted tanks? I know they like to burrow in substrate and wondered if this would have any affect on plants uprooting etc.?

Cheers

 

[TOO]

Very nice fish, thanks for alerting me to it.

With its preference to dig into the sand it is probably best suited to a more specialized species tank. Ideally, I guess, the substrate should be all sand, which we normally don't have in planted aquaria. Also it seems to come from fast flowing waters, which would mean something like 15-20x filter turnover.

A combination could be a planted tank based on plants that do not require substrate, Microsorum, Bollbitis, etc. Then you could go for all sand substrate. This is is just the tank I immediately started planning when I read about these fish .

Thomas

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Give them a go, I don't think they will up-root the plants or that you will probably see them very often. They might struggle with high CO2 <Akysis vespa • Akysidae • Cat-eLog>.

cheers Darrel

 

[brodnig]

Thanks for the replies Thomas, Darrel.

I'm going to add them to my nano with a view to creating a biotope along the lines Thomas described when funds permit.

Hoping dim lighting with lots of floating riccia to diffuse light will encourage them to be out and about a bit!! Will be low tech all the way, no co2 added