Wild Nut Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 As well as bettas and killifish, I am very big on Australian and New Guinea natives. At the moment my set-up is limited to smaller rainbows and pseudomugil species, but hopefully in the future I can house a wider range. This tank is 60x36x30 and houses around 9-10 Skull Creek rainbows, and the same amount of Delicate blue-eyes. I am intending on attaching a black background to make it look a bit neater, and adding some more leaf litter. Unfortunately, my rainbows are cowards and just hide at the back whenever I come near the tank so I sneakily watch them from my bed haha. Fish were all from Dave at Aquagreen and the hardscape was (painfully) dug up by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gulp Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Very nice, I'm thinking about getting into natives, love aquagreen. Nice pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 I love it. Very natural looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Nut Posted May 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Thanks. I like to house most of my fish in natural looking tanks. The blue-eyes and rainbows in this tank (including my accidental pygmy perch) spend a lot of their time pecking at the wood and sifting through the leaf litter. My vals have started throwing off runners so hopefully they should thicken up some as time goes by. Finally got my hands on some rare 'ish' Pseudomugil connieae. Once I have a proper set-up sorted out for them, I will snap some photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briztoon Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Awesome looking tank scape mate. Nice leetle feesh too. I had to do a double take on the 3rd photo, as I thought a saw a ubiquitous piece of Aussie creek scape, a number plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zui Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Great work WN. Hats off to you. Very natural looking :applaud: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2littlerevheads Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Lovely tank :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Nut Posted May 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Haha it's actually a book behind the tank. It does have a dead fish on the cover and includes the murder of a koi so it is deserving of a starring role Blue-eyes are so awesome to watch sparring and displaying. I have some honey blue-eyes and the males spend 90% of their time on display for their three lucky (or possibly unlucky) ladies. Definitely recommend them if you have a nano tank to fill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Nut Posted May 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 Here's two shots of my Pseudomugil connieae. They are very active fish so it was hard to get a decent shot. They are very friendly and boisterous. They have already learned to come up and take food from my tweezers. This is the only decent shots I could get of my Pseudomugil mellis previously I put some dried riparian leaves from Dave in their tank and you'd think it was Christmas. They spent the next couple hours exploring, pecking and squabbling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forever_and_a_day Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 wow really nice Ashlea! all that pain digging up the roots paid off, it looks amazing in the tank. :applaud: where did you get your gravel from? i had gravel of a similar size before, but i swear it was messing with my pH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Nut Posted May 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 Yeah I'm about to schedule a trip back up there as they have this old rocky area we call the 'gravel pit' and I'm going to dig some big rocks up to use in my connieae tank. Plus see if I can't dig up some more of their paddock...I mean tea tree heh heh. The substrate is sand I got from Exotic Aquatic in the bigger tank and in the other tanks it is fine gravel I picked up from Petbarn. In my honey blue-eye tank the sand mixed with some laterite soil I purchased from Dave so it has got some bigger chunks through it. Haven't had any issues with my pH aside from needing to bump it up with crushed coral to keep my darn tanks cycled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gulp Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 Care to dig up some roots for me? lol Love the pics :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forever_and_a_day Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 btw what kind of plant is that thin reedy stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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