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Brandis Edge (Flamingo)

beautiful fish ian and lovely scape what fish are they if you don't mind love the colour of them

Dean
 
TOO said:
This is a stunning fish, especially when the males flare. They have real tiny mouths, so if you want to give them a treat newly hatched brine shrimp is the thing to do.

Thomas
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Or banana worms . easier to culture and reproduce by the hundreds daily.

I think youve picked the right fish for this scape mate. I really like threadfins.
 
TOO said:
Interesting, thanks, definitely expanded my knowledge.

But why "ironic"? And why "edge"?

Thomas
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Yes, alstair is correct, Brandis is known as the god father of chopping trees down. The edge refers to the sand steadily leading up to a tree stump. Maybe on a beach or maybe deforestation. I don't normally get so deep! Lol
The ironic bit is, most of us are big fans of nature, and like what nature offers us. Most of us don't like the extensive deforestation happening in most parts where our fish we keep originate from.
 
Thanks for the explanation. You had to dig deep there :). But I like the idea of a tank with a bit of philosophy behind it. The tank, luckily, does not make me think of deforestation. There is a difference between chopping down trees for economic gain (deforestation) and aesthetic/botanical purposes (Brandis).

Thomas
 
There is it's a pity the governments around the world followed Brandis way of thinking.

Check this video...illegal gold mining in Peru.
 
Samjpikey said:
This looks so good :) is that a resin trunk or real ??



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Thanks Sam!

It's real wood, made up of 2 bits
These bits...
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A bit of sawing was involved as well.
 
That's good stuff :) , was it screwed or glued together ??
I'm doing a 50x25x25 soon so I'm on the look
Out for ideas :) ,
Have you got other tanks running at the moment or just this ??
Cheers


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Samjpikey said:
That's good stuff :) , was it screwed or glued together ??
I'm doing a 50x25x25 soon so I'm on the look
Out for ideas :) ,
Have you got other tanks running at the moment or just this ??
Cheers



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Cheers Sam, these are just held together with cladafora, and dug into the substrate, so there's no moment.

And yes this is the only tank I have going at the moment.
 
Daily maintainence...both the kids are picked off to school, so I took the opportunity to get some pics. I'm still doing 50% water changes, in the morning before lights come on.


The gear
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image by Ian Holdich, on Flickr


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image by Ian Holdich, on Flickr


And probs the best glassware I have every bought! Finally managed to get a 17mm nano inlet. Very very good quality...from Aquairum plant food uk
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image by Ian Holdich, on Flickr



Also a bit of HC floated when I was doing my maintenance, I was that stressed I had to do some one arm press ups, to get the endorphins going....












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I think there's a market for exercise and aquascaping ; )


Thank you Gary, I actually enjoy these first few weeks of nurchering a tank.
 
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