It’s been a bit quite here lately, but here’s one nice picture of our Clown loaches (Botia macracantha) – Nipsu in the foreground and Napsu in the background. Aren’t they cute 🙂
Nipsu is almost twice the size of Napsu, but Napsu is better to find the bottom food I give them. Hence they sometimes have fairs competitions over the food. Of course Nipsu ultimately wins and that is why I try to give the bottom food tablets to different places of the tank so that both can eat in peace.
Our Juwel RIO 180 tank is now 8 months old and has grown from what only had content from our old 100 liters aquarium such as one stump (or rhizome?) and just a few plants. Now the plants have grown so much and I need to cut them at every water change. I really try to take care of our Amazon sword plants (Echinodorus bleheri) which there are multiple of in our aquarium. As you can see from the picture, I have some Amazon sword plant sprouts growing which is an indication of healthy water. Plants are in general very important to me, so as you can see in the upper left corner of the picture, I also have a CO2 dispenser that makes the plants grow really well.
The aquarium in the pictures below has had water changes every three weeks and to me this is the perfect cycle. All the important metrics (NO2, NO3, pH) are still within good numbers and I can keep the bottom clean as well.
In case you have any questions related to the tank, what I do with it or what I have in it, just leave a comment and I will get back to you. You can also send me an email with your question. You’ll find the email in the About section above.
Below is a picture of our aquarium taken 6th of November 2010. We added some white stones to the foreground and also some foreground plants (unfortunately I cannot now find the name of the grass we bought. Anyone?). We wanted to have the smooth stones for our sewellia lineolat loach. And of course the stones look nice too.
Our freshwater aquarium, 6.11.2010
We now have: