Best tank for a Species or Environment tank

Subject: Best tank for a Species or Environment tank Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:33 pm

You have a tank and you are considering starting a species or environment tank such as a Amazon biotope.
What size tank is best suited for a certain species of fish or environment that you would like to create?
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I was thinking of having a brackish tank with a mangrove tree in it. It would be a tall narrow tank and be half water and half terrarium. I was thinking of orchids and air plants attached to the mangrove above the water, and archer fish and others for fish in the lower half. I thought of placing a dish of rotting, but not smelly hopefully, stuff to grow maggots behind the mangrove so there would be a source of flies for the archer fish to do their legendary spitting thing on, and I'd have to have a screened or screen with glass top so the flies can't escape.

I do have an Amazon biotope, and it required a lot of thinking to set it up. I went with a 75 gallon, and I researched really hard to find plants and fish that came from the amazon. I decided to mainly collect swordplants for that tank, so I got some VHO lights so I could have the best growth from them. I also got some driftwood, and some brown and beige gravel. I poured in 4 inches of gravel, then placed the driftwood in. I used 2 Jager heaters, because I decided to go with discus, and they like warmer-than-usual water. I also used an Eheim canister filter, and an Aquaclear power filter. 2 powerheads were also put on, so that the plants were more areated and so algae couldn't build up that fast. The tank looked great, and 2 weeks later, I added 6 discus, 20 cardinal tetras, and 10 cory cats.

HTH
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