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My new fish
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Guest_exasperatus2002_*
Posted 07 January 2012 - 11:10 PM
#3
Guest_jblaylock_*
Posted 08 January 2012 - 07:11 PM
Keep us posted on the tank.
#4
Guest_frogwhacker_*
Posted 08 January 2012 - 10:56 PM
Within minutes several were already feeding. A male banded darter was flirting with a female and scootching her to the nearest rock cover.
That's interesting. A male banded that I collected a couple months ago was also doing that shortly after I put him in the tank. If I remember rightly, it seems like it even appeared as if he was trying to flirt with one of the blacksides too.
It looks like your starting a collection of some good looking rocks. Like jblaylock mentioned, I like to collect rocks while I'm collecting and sampling fish also. Often I take a 5 gallon bucket for fish and another one for rocks. Now I've got rocks all over the place that I'm not using so I've backed off on the rock collecting.
I love the pictures of your darters eating bloodworms. Thanks for sharing and congratulations on them and the fun of setting up the tank.
Steve.
#5
Guest_exasperatus2002_*
Posted 09 January 2012 - 11:51 AM
That's interesting. A male banded that I collected a couple months ago was also doing that shortly after I put him in the tank. If I remember rightly, it seems like it even appeared as if he was trying to flirt with one of the blacksides too.
It looks like your starting a collection of some good looking rocks. Like jblaylock mentioned, I like to collect rocks while I'm collecting and sampling fish also. Often I take a 5 gallon bucket for fish and another one for rocks. Now I've got rocks all over the place that I'm not using so I've backed off on the rock collecting.
I love the pictures of your darters eating bloodworms. Thanks for sharing and congratulations on them and the fun of setting up the tank.
Steve.
I have the power head shooting down the middle of the tank. would it be better to direct it towards the front or back wall instead?
#6
Guest_frogwhacker_*
Posted 09 January 2012 - 12:34 PM
I have the power head shooting down the middle of the tank. would it be better to direct it towards the front or back wall instead?
If by "down the middle of the tank" you mean that it's positioned lengthways to spray the full 48" as opposed to spraying it 12" from front to back, that would be my natural inclination to do. It seems like a common thing to spray lengthways and then position the rocks and other structure to guide or break up the flow depending on what your desired pattern is.
The tank that I referenced to in the other thread is not a good example of this as I was trying to juxtapose two different habitats in the same tank. While the plumbing was a task, the flow is pretty basic so that it doesn't interfere with the other section of the tank. The video that jblaylock provided in that thread would be a better example of a true "full" riffle tank. I've also seen some examples where Todd Crail drew lines to explain the water flow in one of his riffle tanks that shows how he used the structure/decorations in the tank to direct the water flow.
Here it is. http://farmertodd.co...e_fish_tank.pdf
I think this is the one I was thinking about. Hope this helps.
Steve.
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Guest_exasperatus2002_*
Posted 09 January 2012 - 01:31 PM
Edited by exasperatus2002, 09 January 2012 - 01:35 PM.
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