Planted Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 been a member of this site for about a year now and still havn't posted anything so thought id'e put up a cpl of pics of my Thoricthys Ellioti breeding pair to make a start. and hope to spend a bit more time on the site now. Male : Female : and a youtube vid with fry atm : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonnyM Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 STUNNING! Don't know what else to say. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priscacara Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Gorgeous colors! Always enjoy seeing what other people have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CThompson Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 fan-bloody-tastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link2Hell Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Planted Great colours in your fish and really nice tanks in your vid link, can you add some details water parameters , feeding, etc nice aquascaping they sure give the Geo's what for Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citypainter Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 2nd time I saw taht species this week. great fish mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planted Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 Cheers guys Link2Hell : tank the Ellioti are in is a standard 5ft tank with pool filter sand substrate. filters are 1 x Eheim 2215 and 1 x Fluval 405 running Co2 to control the pH "sitting on 6.8" Sera pH controller, Dupla inline reactor pumped by eheim inline 1250 pump aged tap water with geo liquid added at each weekly 30-40% water change lighting is just 1 x aquamedic 80w plant grow tube running atm. lots of wood and a few rocks. plants are just narrow leaf java fern, Philippine java fern and valis. fish are : 2 x close to adult Thoricthys Ellioti 5 x geophagus araguaia "not so orange head" 6 x L201 pleco's male and female longfin albino bn's 2 x ornate tetra's 2 x pencil fish foods fed are : "Hikari" Mysis shrimp, brine shrimp with spirinula, blood worms occasionaly "the L201's love the bloodworm" "NLS" large fish formula, Thera+A, Cichlid formula Sera San, flora live brine shrimp twice a week. yep the Ellioti give the Geo's a bit, but only when they have fry otherwise they get on ok usually this is an older pic of the tank, doesn't have as many plants in it anymore though as i robbed some for another tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link2Hell Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Excellent run down of the set up and diet I like the flow in the way you have layed out the tank looks just the right balance ... great job very impressed with the health and condition of all your fish that you've shown It's a good mix with tetra's, very similar to Japes post of his Geo's Do you still have the Choc Gourami and Gold Rams that were in one of your vids Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antz Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 very very very nice!.. so is that the cousin of a firemouth? never seen those before.. how big do they get awesome tank! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planted Posted April 17, 2010 Author Share Posted April 17, 2010 Thanks Link2Hell yep still have the Choc gourami, it's the last left out of 4 i bought about a year ago. euthanased one of the gold rams the other day as it developed popeye and didn'y want to risk any of the other fish in the tank. yep the Ellioti is a relative of the firemouth, but not as aggressive. the Ellioti get to approx 15-16cm for the male with the females being quite a bit smaller. my pair are pretty much full grown now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planted Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 another photo of the tank from just now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topogigio Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Nice fish mate. Your husbandry sure is showing in the quality of the fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planted Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 thanks mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackos80 Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Any Fry for sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planted Posted July 3, 2010 Author Share Posted July 3, 2010 not atm sorry, been just letting the last batches get eaten... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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