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Haibarben freshwater catchbasin 1400 l (391 gallons)

Haibarben freshwater catchbasin 1400 l (391 gallons) Tube. Duration : 0.83 Mins.





Mein Haibarbenbecken am 27.10.2008. Maße des Beckens: 250 cm lang, 70 cm hoch, 80 cm tief = 14oo Liter Volumen Well, here are Details of my tank: L: 250cm, H: 70cm, W: 80cm. Light: 4 x JBL Tropic Solar 36W, 4 x Daylight 36W. Light used 13 hours per day. Capacity CO2: 10kg; enough for about 4 months. CO2 supply on 1 hour after light on to 2 hours befor light off. Filter: Eheim 2260, 2000 liters per hour. Water changing 200 liters every week. Plant fertilizer: JBL Ferropol, 150ml every week, special tabs under the roots of the Echinodorus. Ground: 300kg river gravel 3-8mm, Some river stones with caves, 2 roots. Plants: Echinodorus bleherii, E. osiris, some other Echinodorus, cryptocoryne balansae, C. undulata, C. aponogetifolia, C. wendtii, some other Cryptocoryne, microsorum pteropus, some Anubia. Bewohner: 7 Haibarben (balantiocheilus melanopterus) 80 rot-blaue Kolumbianer (hyphessobrycon columbianus 4 Wabenschilderwelse (glyptoperichthys gibbiceps) 100+ braune Antennenwelse (ancistrus sp.) 5 siamesische Rüsselbarben (crossocheilus siamensis) Inside of the buttom: A lot of Red-rimmed melania (Melanoides tuberculata)



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Posted by - September 22, 2011 at 5:58 pm

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29 Gallon Freshwater Aquarium

29 Gallon Freshwater Aquarium Tube. Duration : 3.25 Mins.





The setup is only a couple months old and I just started trying to add plants. So it’s far from finished looking right now. In the tank I have 1 – Marble Angel 2 – Indian Glassfish 4 – Ghost / Glass Catfish 1 – Albino Long Fin Bristlenose Pleco 1 – Dragon Goby / Violet Goby 1 – Long fin White Skirt Tetra 3 – Ghost Shrimp The angel is exceptionally fat today because yesterday I filled their tank with brine shrimp (mostly for the goby) but the angel got it all. The other fish are too intimidated to get between the angel and it’s food. The goby, and the glassfish are going to end up in a 55 gallon brackish water tank. I was going to wait until I got a brackish tank to get a goby, but then I saw this guy in Wal-Mart’s pond-fish tank with Koi and feeders and I figured a clean freshwater aquarium would be better than what he was already in. The Goby is about 7″ long and hasn’t gotten any bigger since I got him in September. The glass catfish are my newest addition.



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Posted by - September 19, 2011 at 5:35 pm

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Mollies Are Great Freshwater Tropical Fish For The Home Aquarium

Mollies are part of the livebearers collection of fish, including Guppies, Platies and Swordtails. They are very easy to breed and it is fairly easy to distinguish the males from the females.

Most of the colors of Mollies are a result of specialized breeding practices from the people who raise them.

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It is recommended that Mollies be placed in aquariums containing at least 15 gallons of water, a maximum of ¼ inch of gravel, and a heater that keeps the temperature of the water between 78 and 82 degrees Fahrenheit. As with Guppies and other livebearers, you should put 1 tablespoon of aquarium salt per 5 gallons of water to help them survive better in fresh water environments. Unique to the Mollies species of fish, they can actually live quite well in complete salt water aquariums as well. Since Mollies have this flexibility, they are a versatile fish that could be compatible in many different aquarium set ups.

Mollies Are Great Freshwater Tropical Fish For The Home Aquarium

Once considered a difficult fish to care for, the Mollies are now being seen as indicator fish as they will be the first fish to provide signs that the aquarium is unbalanced or the water is contaminated. Mollies kept in freshwater tanks require frequent water changes to remain healthy, while Mollies in reef aquariums rarely need a water change.

The best diet for Mollies includes feeding them floating flake food and freeze dried bloodworms on a daily basis, with a few Black Worms fed every other day.

Keep more female Mollies than male Mollies for the best results. The list of compatible fish is fairly long and Mollies can share the tank with several varieties of fish. The best tank mates include Platies and Swordtails, Angel Fish, a single Plecostomus, Corydoras Catfish, or larger Tetras including Red Serpaes, Silver Tips and Black Skirts.

As with any fish, you will need to have adequate room in the tank as well as a good filtration system. Proper lighting is also important for the health of your fish. When introducing Mollies to your tank, be sure you keep them in the bag that you received them and and float that in the fish tank for about 20 minutes to let the water temperature slowly match that of the tank. Then open the bag and mix a small amount of tank water in – let that sit for about 5 minutes. Repeat this last step a few times so that your fish can become acclimate to the water in it’s new home before you release them into the tank.

Mollies tend to live an average of 4 or 5 years and reach a size of 5″ in length.

Mollies Are Great Freshwater Tropical Fish For The Home Aquarium

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Posted by - September 11, 2011 at 5:07 pm

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Starting an aquarium of freshwater tropical fish

Of all the hobbies are fish to be one of the most rewarding, interesting and useful. From an aquarium of freshwater tropical fish is not difficult if you know how to know and how you have to start off right information.

Some people naturally start to get information from her boyfriend, thinks he knows everything and thinks it's obvious what must be done. People do not want to hear. Recruitment is one thing you and Iright? Keeping fish need the right information to help you is to start on the right foot and to keep this hobby for life.

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Not, in fact I will go so far as to say do not listen to all your friends or family, because if they are not involved in the hobby, then the need for the surrounds. If you know something or to start very soon, you will fail within a month or so, guaranteed.

Starting an aquarium of freshwater tropical fish

Keeping fish is not the same hobby of origami for example, wherenot very important if you make a few mistakes to begin with. No, sir, is a question if the fish stay alive and for how long. There is no people joke. What happens if your innocent ignorance will bring together two fish, and did not know that was one of them tend to eat other fish? Result – one eats fish, dead and buried.

So come on people, start an aquarium of freshwater fish, but make a good start. Need to know what you plan to keep exploring this hobby fish sonow and start your hobby in a few hours, because it has all the initial research. Then your new found hobby will last a lifetime and not a month.

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Posted by - August 30, 2011 at 11:40 am

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10 gallon freshwater aquarium with live plants

10 gallon freshwater aquarium with live plants Tube. Duration : 6.95 Mins.





This is an update of a previous video after 8 months of improvements and iterations to complete the configuration. The idea has always been to create a healthy, viable long-term environmental, low maintenance, low cost technology to create and bass. A lot of research, trial and error went into this configuration. No increased risk or changes from the beginning, is that this device can be used as a guide proven that it worked for a year. Proposal for the public is to take a serious aquarium setup, becauseare many correct ways in which it unfolds. Summary of what follows, I have learned in the process, and where I want to do is take in the future, such as the aquarium: – General rule of thumb in an aquarium tank increases the size of the setup cost increases, rising costs maintenance, but maintenance costs. However, bowls, vases and home are so hostile to fish and are even illegal in some European countries to do so. – An aquarium should always be below the highest point of a position in space, sostanding, should size, noise filter, the color and lighting must be designed in advance. – Within an aquarium consider the type of substrate, bottom, hood light, heating, filtration, and how to hide them better. Try contrasting colors with dark substrate and background colors in the end, with green plants and bright colors of the fish. Read more "Aquarium Golden Ratio" for the layout. – When the setup time progresses many types of algae is a part of natural phenomena, are not harmful, but canbe



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Posted by - August 19, 2011 at 5:44 am

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The choice of the best fish for your freshwater fish aquarium, tropical

Most new owners of freshwater aquarium fish are so overwhelmed with the sheer number and variety of fish. To answer these important decisions, it is sometimes difficult to choose one to receive that type. There are over 25,000 identified species of fish and more than 2,000 of them are accessible to hobbyists. Once you have decided what you want to get fish in the tank, then the rest of snap decisions are much easier. Here are some of the mostCandidate for your first aquarium.

The most popular types of tropical fish, angel fish. The angelfish is a piscivores, so that the angel fish, the smaller fish, which takes you into the tank to eat. Angels are cichlids and cichlids like everyone else, if you have 2 or 3 in the same aquarium, the strongest of them make the other miserable. They are a territorial species. If you are young for their defense, you can really belligerent toward any other fish in the area.
AsAngelfish become larger, they are very efficient in the use of small fish such as stalking and guppies and neon tetras.

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I am a tropical fish in your tank more, the Rosy Barb. Rosy Barb happy to live together in packs. They are usually pink in color with the males with a black tip of the fins. You're not a fish rigorous. It 'better to add floating plants in the aquarium. They also love tunnel, and then need a soft bed of sand of the aquarium. If 'Rosy barbs to spawn, the eggs are left on the plants. Usually after a day broods of eggs. It takes a couple of days for the fish begin to swim freely. The adults eat the eggs and young of the eighth, so be sure to protect them.

The choice of the best fish for your freshwater fish aquarium, tropical

Another very popular tropical freshwater fish, the swordtail. The swordtail is available in a variety of different colors easily with the little man with his signature line "sword" identified. This is a very bold fish, which can accommodate a wide range of waterConditions.
They are ovoviviparous, which means that the children come from free swimming fish. There was a bill with male aggressiveness was one of the swordtail when keeping multiples.

If the owner is to determine the order to buy the fish, is often made based on the color and appearance.
The tropical freshwater aquarium fish owners will be presented with an assortment of choices.

The choice of the best fish for your freshwater fish aquarium, tropical

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Posted by - July 25, 2011 at 11:32 am

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10 gallon freshwater aquarium set Angel Fish Tetra Whisper Pump Flip Mino camera

10 gallon freshwater aquarium set Angel Fish Tetra Whisper Pump Flip Mino camera Tube. Duration : 3.12 Mins.





Recorded with the Flip Mino, 10 gallon aquarium set up, angel fish, freshwater aquarium 10 Gallon Tetra Whisper Pump set Angel Fish Flip Mino camera



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Posted by - July 7, 2011 at 11:53 am

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Freshwater Tropical Aquarium 29 Gallon

Freshwater Tropical Aquarium 29 Gallon Tube. Duration : 2.83 Mins.





This is my 29-liter aquarium freshwater tropical fish. It consists of two lyretail Moliere (1 Cremecide 1 Silver), 1 Red Tail Shark, 1 Angelfish, 1 Mickey Plady, Marigold variatus 1, 1 Cory Catfish, 1 Blue Gourami and a swordtail. Decorations include apocalyptic Brooklyn Bridge, the Colosseum and the Egyptian Sphinx, with two fake plants and 3 live plants! All the fishes get along. I'm thinking in time, turn it into a tank of cichlids, but for now I'm happy with my sweettropical fish. Let me know what you think! Twitter: twitter.com Please help me out by clicking this link! bux2get.com thanks!



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Posted by - July 4, 2011 at 5:59 am

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Freshwater angelfish and hatchetfish / @ scalar and bellies bring Cologne Zoo [24/52]

Freshwater angelfish and hatchetfish / @ scalar and bellies bring Cologne Zoo [24/52] Tube. Duration : 1.18 Mins.





WATCH MY OTHER VIDEOS www.fischbottich.de + + + This is the Aquarium atanks Zoo Cologne Zoo, as the "Cologne Zoo." And 'the material of the third travel fischbottich.de Zoo. + + + We have a video of each tank at the zoo. March 27, 2009 (27/03/2009) For scale: The front wheel is 1.2 feet (3.93 meters) tall. + + + The population of this pool: fresh water angel / or sail-finned angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare) hatchetfish common or river hatchetfish / Silberbeilbauchfisch(Gasteropelecus sternicla) Umbrella Cichlids / Borelli's dwarf cichlid (Apistogramma Borelli), Panda Panda Corydoras Catfish and / Panda Corydoras (Corydoras panda) + + + RELEASE courtesy of the Cologne Zoo. Further information under www.koelnerzoo.de



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Posted by - June 21, 2011 at 5:35 pm

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Breeding tropical fish freshwater

Many owners of aquariums beginners are not the way in which to lay eggs considered his animals. If you have recently purchased a larger aquarium, you should always use the smallest and use it as a breeding tank. Most tropical fish are known to spawn in aquariums. With a breeding tank can insulate and protect the breeding pair and fry the eggs eaten by the other members of a community tank occurred after spawning.

Breeding Egg Scatter

Freshwater Tropical Fish

ManyFreshwater fish are egg scatterers. Fish egg dispersion show no signs of parental instinct. They are known to eat their children's future. Aquarists often add floating plants to their breeding pools in order to hide the eggs from predation. Another trick is a layer of beads on the bottom of the tank farm, instead. Most fish eggs sink. The eggs slid between the rounded surface of the marble and adults to reach. "In any case, it is advisableRemove adults from the fish ponds after spawning. Details for spawning habits of each species in the treatment of freshwater aquarium fish breeding and guidance is available.

Breeding tropical fish freshwater

Breeding Live Bearers

Guppy, Molly and the Sword are live bearing tropical fish. They will eat their fry born. The best way to avoid this is to use a trap breeding. Breeding traps are cheap and easily available in fish stores. Breeding traps are generally transparent plastic containersconsisting of two chambers. Place the impregnated females breeding in the upper chamber of the trap. When the female gives birth to the fry will fall into the lower compartment. After the female gives birth did remove them from the trap. The piece of plastic breeding trap is divided into two sections can then be removed to give the small fish more space. The young fish may be kept in the trap, while they are young. But remember that in a separate room for theirprotection. Replace the water with aquarium water regularly so cool.

Breeding and brood care

Cichlids are without doubt among the aquarium fish freshwater most popular, and the instincts of parents as part of the exhibition process of procreation. Oscars, discus and angel fish are all cichlids of South America. Cichlid breeding habits are very different and complex, which include modern parents. Breeding and parental care fall into four categoriesRelationship with the spawn original substrate brooders or open secret cave brooders, and two types of oral brooders; ovophiles and larvae.

Substrate brooders lay their eggs outside. First clean a hard surface like a stone or a piece of wood to lay their eggs on deposit during the breeding season.

Mysterious cave brooders lay their eggs in caves, cracks, holes or abandoned shells. Often lay their eggs on the roof fall breeding.

Ovophile mouthMouth brooders as incubators during the breeding season. Incubate the eggs in his mouth until they hatch. Free swimming fry can remain in the mouth for several weeks in custody before being released.

The larval mouth brooders lay their eggs or outside or in a protective housing, such as cave breeders. After hatching, the larva is dug in the mouth to develop into fry.

Cova mouth is usually a maternal role in cichlids. The male has a duty toguarding the female and her brood, should be protected from predators. Male is extremely territorial, after spawning. A breeding ponds, are territorial disputes that occur in a community tank with safety and security of eggs and fry from predation should be.

Breeding instinct and parental responsibilities do not cease once the young fish swim free. Both parents will help young people in search of food, teaching them the skills they need to survive on its own will.Foraging ability and survival often involves turning the leaves and stones and dug into the gravel bed of the river or looking for food to feed the brood. Parents and roast them are actually observed the communication during this learning process, both in the wild and in captivity. Communication between parents and children is to find a series of body movements such as trembling and flickering.

Cichlids are not the only freshwater fish to demonstrate to parents, extendedInstinct Interregnal as part of the race. Many types of exercise of various forms of the duty of parents to rear their brood after the deposition. Cichlids were taken as a general example of the instincts rearing experts because of their immense popularity among the owners of freshwater aquariums.

Feeding Fry

There are a number of products on the market for feeding fry. Fry liquid food, rotifers or infusoria are among them. Economic and easy to find a substitute powdered eggs. SomeAquarium owners feed their fry egg that, despite having pulled a cloth or pulverized in a food processor. Still others simply use a raw egg yolk. Whatever your choice, remember that the young fish are very small. Not every time. Information only serve fried food that can contaminate the aquarium water. Once the fry are a week or so old, their diet can be changed to newly hatched brine shrimp or finely ground fish scales.

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Posted by - June 20, 2011 at 5:28 pm

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