My 540 Liter Madagascartank

[Endymion]

Tank:
540 Liter 150x60x60

Lightning
1st Aquamedic Reef White 80 Watt T5
1st Osram 880 Skywhite 80 Watt T5

Back to nature Slimline Limestone

Pumps:
Eheim 2028 (hidden behind slimline)
Hydor Ario (hidden behind slimline)

Fish: (All from Madagascar)
9 Bedotia geayi
4 Katria katria
6 Paretroplus kieneri
6 Paretroplus menarambo, Lake Sarodrano
5 Ptychochromis cf. oligacanthus, Mananjeba river

Plants: (All from Madagascar)
2 Aponogeton boivinianus
2 Aponogeton ulvaceus

[sidguppy]

Beautiful tank!

where did you get the fishes from? zoos? or hobbyists?
some of these species are rare in Europe.

btw, don't be surprised if you wake up one day and see a tank without plants.
Paretroplus is a bit like a cow and sooner or later they'll strt to graze.

mine have aquired a taste for greenery that even fast growers like potamogeton or hard-leafed plants like Anubias are just extra food

but it's a great looking tank

I envy your katria and kieneri

[Michael.NEGRINI]

hi Endymion,

nice setup, but I think you can't keep all these fishes together in this tank.

Paretroplus menarambo will grow to more than 25 cm TL. In the long term, I think it will be better to keep only a pair or trio of each "small" species in this tank and move the P. menarambo to a bigger aquarium if you want to keep a group. A pair of P. menarambo can be kept in this tank...if it's a specific/breeding aquarium.

Your Bedotia, sold as geayi in the trade, are in fact Bedotia madagascariensis.

Hope this helps,

[Endymion]

If the tank gets to small I buy a larger one

[emartin]

If the tank gets to small I buy a larger one

That's the spirit! LOL Unfortunately there aren't many people like us willing to spend the extra coin for the sake of the fish!

[Endymion]

Today I have my first spawning in the tank.

[Lisachromis]

Congratulations!

[Sharpfish]

That is a beautiful site. Are you going to pull the fry or leave them in the main tank?

[Piotr Koba]

Cool tank and fish! I love the P. oligacanthus! Good luck with the fry.

[alanastar]

Hi Endymion,

This is a very nice collection of fish you have.
I had the opportunity a couple of years ago to keep some of these but it was the size of the tank required that put me off being able to keep them.

I hope you didn't have to let go some vics to make room for them

[fahaka]

Nice tank.

I also have both aponogetens and am wandering if you hibernate yours or just leave them to die off a bit and grow back. Are you using any fertilizers?
I am surpirsed your fish haven't eaten the plants yet.