So this time since I've got some decent photo's of my guys I'd figure I'd post them in the cichlid forum instead of the plant one. (I like it down here better anyway, just don't tell anyone 
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BGA keeps tring as hard as it can to take over the tank. While I was rather immobilized with a broke toe my Co2 tank dumped and that started it. I lost all my stem plants. I did have Dwarf sag growing from one side to the other, and as nice as it did look when it was clean and free of algae and debris, I decided to remove all of it for the time being. It was like a magnet for debris, and while tring to keep BGA at bay without nuking the tank I figure it's an acceptable compromise. So Plant wise, it looks kinda bear to what it had been looking, I just wish I had some photo's from a few weeks ago.
Enough with that, on to the good stuff.
I like the driftwood arrangement. I've used 7 individual pieces in the tank. 5 for the large structure on the right and the two single pieces to the left. The fish love the tall driftwood with all the extra nooks and crannies. The chunk on the bottom is hollow, so it forms a nice large 'natural' cave.
I've never known anyone to rename a species of fish. My wife has though. Festivums are no longer festivums at our house, they are collectively known as The Bob's. Anyone think we can get this change official?
We lost two with the Co2 incident. But strange enough, the two that are left if I had to guess seem to be male and female. This is only going by the finnage, and I'm not real sure how effective this is to sex these fish. They are still very young anyway so I don't really care at this point. I would like to find more of these fish. Such a neat cichlid, quickly becoming one of my all time favorites.
I didn't notice till I was uploading these, but if you look at the bottom two of the above photo's, they show each of the two festivums, and as luck would have it the background is almost the same for both photo's! I couldn't do that agian in the next million pics. You can also see the differences with the fins. The first two is the larger fish, his dorsal and anal fins have a long filament that the smaller one lacks completely.
Here's a few of our nutty Apisto male.
And just because this is the best photo I've ever been able to get of these guys in the 6 months I've had them, one of three zebra loaches:
I also have 2 discus recently added, but I've saved those photo's for the thread in the discus forum.
)BGA keeps tring as hard as it can to take over the tank. While I was rather immobilized with a broke toe my Co2 tank dumped and that started it. I lost all my stem plants. I did have Dwarf sag growing from one side to the other, and as nice as it did look when it was clean and free of algae and debris, I decided to remove all of it for the time being. It was like a magnet for debris, and while tring to keep BGA at bay without nuking the tank I figure it's an acceptable compromise. So Plant wise, it looks kinda bear to what it had been looking, I just wish I had some photo's from a few weeks ago.
Enough with that, on to the good stuff.
I like the driftwood arrangement. I've used 7 individual pieces in the tank. 5 for the large structure on the right and the two single pieces to the left. The fish love the tall driftwood with all the extra nooks and crannies. The chunk on the bottom is hollow, so it forms a nice large 'natural' cave.
I've never known anyone to rename a species of fish. My wife has though. Festivums are no longer festivums at our house, they are collectively known as The Bob's. Anyone think we can get this change official?
We lost two with the Co2 incident. But strange enough, the two that are left if I had to guess seem to be male and female. This is only going by the finnage, and I'm not real sure how effective this is to sex these fish. They are still very young anyway so I don't really care at this point. I would like to find more of these fish. Such a neat cichlid, quickly becoming one of my all time favorites.
I didn't notice till I was uploading these, but if you look at the bottom two of the above photo's, they show each of the two festivums, and as luck would have it the background is almost the same for both photo's! I couldn't do that agian in the next million pics. You can also see the differences with the fins. The first two is the larger fish, his dorsal and anal fins have a long filament that the smaller one lacks completely.
Here's a few of our nutty Apisto male.
And just because this is the best photo I've ever been able to get of these guys in the 6 months I've had them, one of three zebra loaches:
I also have 2 discus recently added, but I've saved those photo's for the thread in the discus forum.
