Thursday, August 28, 2008

My community fish tank.

This fish tank was setup in march 2008, and it's size was specially design to keep the fish species which I fall in loved. Actually have no intention to keep these fishes, but was fascinate by the Black ghost knifefish. The black ghost was small in size from the LFS which I bought from and was about 5cm long, did not expected fast growth. Hence got to get a bigger tank, deep in height for the reason they might jump out of the tank. These fabulous creature looks alike those dolphin, so cute looking and a little aggressive towards small fishes, now grown to 16cm long.

Tank size: 60cm x 30cm x 54cm H..Black ghost knifefish.








Below are fishes found in the tank, 2 nos. Electric yellow cichlid scientific name Labidochromis caeruleus was very active and entertainment fish. It needs some rocks cave to allow establishment of territories, less aggressive than other fishes. 2 nos. dwarf Golden algae eater, 2 nos. Koi angel and 3 nos. Black ghost knifefish can get along in this community tank.

Electric yellow cichlid
. Golden algae eater ..... Black ghost.






This present community tank which I house with lesser fishes, because the black ghost are very aggressive at time. Some of my smaller fishes was attacked by them and I decided not to have too much difference species in this tank. For the Electric yellow cichlid, it can grow until 5" long and at present it's only 3" long. Where else the GAE will help to clean up the algae and left over food in the tank. Hope you like it as viewing this post and loved the hobby.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

the pictures you took are impressive! you must be a professional photographer!

Cpark188@yahoo.com said...

Hi,thanks for the compliment,and hope you enjoying it. I just learning and a beginner in digital photography and also learn from some photography forum. Thanks and have a nice day.

Anonymous said...

bro, that's not an ottocinclus affinis. its a dwarf golden algae eater.

Cpark188@yahoo.com said...

Thanks bro, for correcting me the fish name dwarf "Golden Algae Eater".
I'm very please that you commented and once again thank you.