Description of the aquarium:
Category:
Tank size:
130 x 60 x 60 = 468 liters ~ 123 gallons (us)
Specific features:
Overflow chute, which is used as a guide for the tubes of the outer filter
Aquarium decoration:
Gravel:
4cm play sand
Plants:
Bolbitis heudelotii
Special features of the facility:
3D back wall, stream gravel, 1 piece of wood from the forest
Aquarium equipment:
Lighting:
11W energy-saving lamp of Brilliant
Lighting time: daily 7:30 to 12:30 and 16:30 to 22:00
Lighting time: daily 7:30 to 12:30 and 16:30 to 22:00
Filtration:
Eheim Professional II 2028
Other equipment:
Eheim Compact 600 as additional flow pump
Stocking:
1/1 Teleogramma brichardi
1/3 Steatocranus casuarius
5 Garra congoensis
16 Alestopetersius caudalis
2 Synodontis brichardi
1 Labeo cyclorhynchus
1/3 Steatocranus casuarius
5 Garra congoensis
16 Alestopetersius caudalis
2 Synodontis brichardi
1 Labeo cyclorhynchus
Water parameters:
PH: 7.2
GH: 9 °
KH: 6 °
NO2: n detectable.
NO3: 10 mg / l
Temperature: seasonally between 22 ° and 26 ° C
Water change weekly about 100 liters
GH: 9 °
KH: 6 °
NO2: n detectable.
NO3: 10 mg / l
Temperature: seasonally between 22 ° and 26 ° C
Water change weekly about 100 liters
Feeding:
Live food: mayfly larvae, black mosquito larvae, Daphnia, bloodworms, occasionally houseflies and other insects.
Frozen Food: Artemia, red (rare), white and black mosquito larvae, daphnia, krill
Vegetables: occasionally cucumber or salad
Per week 1 - 2 Fast Days
Frozen Food: Artemia, red (rare), white and black mosquito larvae, daphnia, krill
Vegetables: occasionally cucumber or salad
Per week 1 - 2 Fast Days
Further information:
The Aquarium represents a small section of the rapids of the lower Congo, Kinshasa below. In addition to a biotope fairest possible means has been taken to use only fish which occur there in nature.