Stream(ish) project

[hx]

Hey, y'all. Long time no stream.

My streamtank got an annoying capillary leak and I had to basically take the whole thing apart. But it's going to be back in business. Aquarium is the same, but there's an added riverbank to make it a paludarium...

Just got it filled for the first time after remake:


I'm going for lighter colored, finer sand this time.
Planting shall start as soon as I figure out the lighting. I'm prolly going to go for 6 x 54 w T5's.

[NDininno]

Looks excellent! I give your tank 5 out of 5 clowns

[chefkeith]

That looks great too!

[hx]

Thanks for the quintet and words.
Hope I manage to plant the sucker accordingly...

[hx]

First inhabitants, 3 Sewellia breviventralis (anyone confirm?)

[froglover007]

That is awsome. Good job.

[Francois van Brederode]

By what I can tell they don't look like any sewellia I've seen.
Then again I only have S. Lineonata.

Its just that there overal bodyshape looks so different from other sewellia species, and there shape looks suspiciously like some of my pseudogastromysons.

I'd bet someone else wille correct me.....

Absolutly brilliant looking tank btw.
When I start living a bit bigger I definetly want something like that (and the money to buy it would be great to....)

[hx]

Thanks.

To my eye at least the mouth looks a lot like a Sewellia mouth.

Today, a few new inhabitants, 25 Yunnanilus cruciatus:

[ch.koenig]

hi hx
I like your tank-design and the inhabitants. about sewellia: s. elongata 4 times, sold as "breviventralis". the underside picture makes me think you have the s. sp coming with elongata. are you shure that they look all the same?
cheers scharles

[hx]

Thanks, Charles.
I have actually never seen neither breviventralis nor elongatas live before, so I'm def no expert. It is not uncommon that newer/rarer species travel under false identities. My first reaction when I saw their backpatches of dark brown through vegetation at the shop was that they're Sinogastromyzon wuiis. Not for long, though.

To clarify my very unscientific photo layout, there's three specimens alltogether, photos are randomly of propably just two fish.

You might have a point in them all not being of the same species, I'll look into it after the fish adapt to their new tank and colour up a bit.

Thanks again for help and kind words.

[hx]

Ambiance with the first plantings:


Thanks.

[Keith Wolcott]

Very beautiful!

[ch.koenig]

hi hx
anybody who doesn't want to be a fish in this tank?
no problems with your pictures. but for better results with elongata: you may put some bigger, rounded, flat stones about 10 cm from the front glass, creatinf resting-places and they will pose for you.

[hx]

Heh, thanks for your words, guys.

Sewellias are becoming braver now, so no problem with posing. Other than the Y. cruciatuses, that is. They are acting like remoras do towards sharks, for god's sake, following the Sewellias and sticking to their ears like leeches. They even stick themselves in between their hosts and glas when the host tries to land on the glas.
Not all the time, though.

Thx.

[FishyLady]

WOW!! this is one gorgeous tank!!

Val