Fishtank in HD part 2

have taken out the wood and the tank is pretty bare... thought id take a video none the less.
Am thinking of going for rock instead... something light and sandy coloured as all the wood was rotting the water a bit

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Tropical
• Fish
• Aquarium
• Aquatic
• Fire-Eel
• Fire
• Eel
• Geophagus
• Convict
• cichlid
• Keyhole
• Oscar
• Astronotus
• Oscellatus
• firemouth
• pimelodius
• pictus
• royal
• plecostimus
• common
• pleco
• synodontis
• cuckoo
• syno
• zebra

[proballerbiker]

whats the blue fish at 0:25 called.

[twicksisted]

thats a convict cichlid... we rehomed him as he grew up to be a bit of a brute and would pick fights with everyone ;)

[Bowserboyproductions]

is that one in the biggining a bichir the alligator looking one cause i saw one at a exotic pet store were it was 200 f-ing bucks and a lungfish was 150 i mean geeze

[twicksisted]

yes thats a Birchir (Polypterus Delhezi).... $200 is very expensive!!! i think i paid £15 for mine about 1.5 years ago

[Caimingchang]

How do you maintain the tank with all the sand? Do you have an UG filter or something to clean the sand?

[twicksisted]

No, i use two external cannister filters with a strong output so the dirt just rolls over the surface till it gets sucked up by the filters intake.

Every week or two its important to stir the sand up a bit to release any gas buildup from the nitrosomonous bacteria as this can be toxic to the fish if left untouched... waterchanges are easy, just use a hose and siphon the water in above the sand surface to pick up any leftovers... (not too close or you suck up the sand)

[BingX14]

what species of cichlid is that at 0:48 ? it looks VERY similar to a Thorichthys Meeki(firemouth cichlid) but something about it looks different...is is a different species of Thorichthys?

[twicksisted]

hehehe..... yeah he could be shot i guess :P

I liked the music as it was from a film i enjoyed (forget the name) ;)

Glad you like the sturio... first one ive ever seen in 20 years of fishkeeping and its mine hehehe

[noddy176]

Oh, here we go again.

I love the video and love to see your Oscars.

And your sturio, uhm, LOVE IT!

Very nice indeed.

Superb quality filming, bro!

Gonna look for more....keep it up!

btw if you decide to shoot that guy playing the accordion, I totally aggree with you!lol

[twicksisted]

I have 2 pimelodius pictus catfish left (had 4 but two of them died of old age)... the other large one with the black spots is a sturio cat (also a type of pimelodius).

Pictus cats do well in a group, if you get a couple more they wont hide ;)