Hello everyone! My name is Shannon and I live in southwest Florida on the Gulf, and I am new at native tanks. I've dabbled in local saltwater fishes/invertebrates but not freshwater, which will be my latest foray. Originally I was going to use my 29g for a South American blackwater biotope, mean while locally collecting all of the decorations personally. I've had so much fun finding and preparing all of my wood, rocks and leaves that I've decided to ditch the strict biotope idea and catch my own stock as well. Since everything in it (aside from the sand) was found locally, I guess in a way it will still be a biotope. I'm looking forward to not only reading the forums, but contributing as well my own (albeit newbie) experiences. Any one who has any tips to offer is greatly appreciated, and of course those that are familiar with Florida that have any specific species to look for, even better!
Another one for the Florida roster :)
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Posted 05 September 2012 - 10:29 AM
Thanks for the welcomes! For those that are from Florida, what kinds of wood can you use? I currently have cypress and oak, but I've also been having cloudy water issues despite multiple boilings, though that may be attributed to the oak leaves.
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Posted 06 September 2012 - 12:10 PM
Welcome!! Cloudy water could just be from the bacterial colonies establishing themselves if the tank is brand new. If thats the case it should resolve itself in a few days. I would think that the oak leaves would produce more of a tannic effect more than cloudiness. I don't have personal experience, but cypress and oak should be just fine.
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Posted 13 November 2012 - 09:07 PM
hi, i'm in citrus, i have a 29 gallon, with some local, some store bought plants, with golden topminnows, mollies, and swamp darters, the topminnows are great, veri active and hardi, mollies get fungal infections requiring quarantine regularlli, darters are small plain bottom dwellers but interesting, collected them before but couldn't get them to eat before thei died, however i found thei love sinking shrimp pellets crushed, i also have a 10 gal with least killies, veri small docile, easi to keep and breed, and pretti blue fin killies, and a 10 with 3 store bought flagfish( couldnt seem to find ani on mi own) also have a small pond outside.
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Posted 14 November 2012 - 08:08 AM
Welcom Don,
Hope you will enjoy some conversation and some learning around here. Sounds like you have a nice variety of natives (I love swamp darters). Take the opportunity to head over to the main NANFA website and maybe even join up! We have a lot of members in Florida that you can link up with.
Hope you will enjoy some conversation and some learning around here. Sounds like you have a nice variety of natives (I love swamp darters). Take the opportunity to head over to the main NANFA website and maybe even join up! We have a lot of members in Florida that you can link up with.
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