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great news Emma

And where's that photo - tis tommorrow now

That is some growth Is there anything you actually add or do you just let things run as they do?

Yes... and were are these pic's



Ashleigh

Well since she won't show her's... I'll show you what I found in the tank today. Not a sp....but still a sewellia..

What a cutie!!

fantastic you must be so pleased.

Yes, I am very happy.. the rest of the family thought I was a raving idiot searching for the camera...

Congratulations, bullisbm! It is such a great feeling when you spot that miniature fish scooting about.
I have only seen one of the two fry I saw the other day, so I hope the Schistura didn't find the other one....
Apologies for not getting the tank pic up yet, been rather busy here. Will do it sometime this weekend for you all.

Emma

So much for what I just said, I just spotted 4 little baby Spotties!

we will remember

Hello,

very great tank and cute fishes.

Fine regards.
Dirk

Emma Turner wrote:So much for what I just said, I just spotted 4 little baby Spotties!

It just amazes me how well these little guys hide.. Just when you think you lost them more appear... so far I have only seen the one.

Bret

I must apologise for the delay in getting the pics up - but better late than never!

Although I normally do ok with taking close up pics of fish, I always seem to struggle with full tank pics - they always come out far too dark. So for a few of these I had to hold the shutter open for longer, but that means that there might be the odd blur in the pics.

First off, a reminder of how the tank looked last October:


And now, it's a jungle in there!








A sharper couple of pics, but much darker:





Did you notice the baby Crypts growing at the front of the tank? Here's a closer look:





I have to thin these out all the time. The right hand side of the tank is much calmer than the left (the leaves do act as a natural water break) but the water is highly oxygenated throughout.

Here are a few quick pics of just some of the inhabitants that obliged:

Schistura balteata


Annamia normani (female) with Sewellia species.


Annamia normani (female) munching on JMC catfish pellets


He's "the daddy"! Again munching on JMC catfish pellets. The spotties are fiercely protective of these.


And here are a couple of tiny young spotties. The first one, I was astounded to see was eating a baby snail. I have a feeling that a bigger loach killed it and partially dragged it out of it's shell, but this little 'un was having a good old munch:




And an even smaller fry, at 5mm TL:


Emma

P.S. I add absolutely no fertilisers or do anything special for the plants. The lighting is simply 2 x 42" Hagen Powerglo tubes.

Great pics of a great tank!!
No wonder the sewellia reproduce so well in there.
I imagine they love the protection offered by the thick overhead plants.

Wow! Everything looks just so... perfect in there!

Those sewellia are just so cute!

David

And wow those crypts have grown!!!

Thanks chaps!