Setting up a Orinoco biotope
Posted: 02 Jan 2013, 21:02
I have just joined this awesome website and I am so glad I did.
I would like to create a black water Orinoco biotope and as strict as possible with the fish it's quite hard to find accurate information about fish species from specific rivers.
The tank is a Fluval 190 corner tank with an external filter which is rated 2000 lph so I will have to slow the flow down, I only have a 150w heater so I will have to upgrade that to a 200w - 300w soon to achieve a higher temp. Substrate is just plain old play sand with some nice branchy bogwood and a few stones with some Indian almond leaves and a couple alder cones thrown in for visuals and water chemistry.
For the stocking here goes my plan I will need help with numbers of each species
Mesonauta Insignis
Marbled hatchets but not sure about origin mixed information on interwebs
Cardinals tetras
Mikrogeophagus ramirezi
But the main problem I have is picking some catfish for this tank as I don't have A brilliant knowledge about these fish?
Corydoras metae
Pygmy cory
And a lovely species of plea or two which I have no idea which one to pick but I have narrowed it down to these based on location
L129
L106
Peckoltia sabaji
L128
L103
I think this just abouts covers this and I'm sorry for such a long read
I would like to create a black water Orinoco biotope and as strict as possible with the fish it's quite hard to find accurate information about fish species from specific rivers.
The tank is a Fluval 190 corner tank with an external filter which is rated 2000 lph so I will have to slow the flow down, I only have a 150w heater so I will have to upgrade that to a 200w - 300w soon to achieve a higher temp. Substrate is just plain old play sand with some nice branchy bogwood and a few stones with some Indian almond leaves and a couple alder cones thrown in for visuals and water chemistry.
For the stocking here goes my plan I will need help with numbers of each species
Mesonauta Insignis
Marbled hatchets but not sure about origin mixed information on interwebs
Cardinals tetras
Mikrogeophagus ramirezi
But the main problem I have is picking some catfish for this tank as I don't have A brilliant knowledge about these fish?
Corydoras metae
Pygmy cory
And a lovely species of plea or two which I have no idea which one to pick but I have narrowed it down to these based on location
L129
L106
Peckoltia sabaji
L128
L103
I think this just abouts covers this and I'm sorry for such a long read