tropheus chibongbong and the ugly fish gang!

[ssrprelude]

Fry don't stand a chance with that cat in there.

[eklikewhoa]

naw not really.

I am trying to replace the roselines with the cyps that tattoo is offering which would cover the upper water column.

The roselines were cause of the petsmart sale, so it was an impulse and they look good and school like crazy.
The bristlenose is only in there cause the female is a freak of nature.

Never really intended for it to be a bio-tope tank but the majority of the inhabitants are from lake tanganyika
-Petrochromis orthoganthus Ikola
-Tropheus Brichardi M'toto
-Telmatochromis Brichardi Mkinga
-Anaspidoglanis macrostoma "dwarf giraffe cat"
-Tetraodon MBU puffer
-Mastacembelus ellipsifer eel (coming soon)

[aggrofishkeeper]

Just curious, thought you were going for a biotope.

[eklikewhoa]

Are all the fish in your tank native to Lake Tanganyika?

The majority of them are, why do you ask?

The only thing in the tank that aren't that I can think of is the bristlenose pleco and the roseline barbs, everything else is tanganyikan.

[aggrofishkeeper]

Are all the fish in your tank native to Lake Tanganyika?

[eklikewhoa]

The dwarf giraffe cat finally decided to come out!

[cu0ngsayz]

Really?!? I'd think it's easier to post on YouTube

[eklikewhoa]

You tube takes forever to upload and it's easier for me to post straight from my phone with photobucket

[cu0ngsayz]

YouTube>photobucket

[eklikewhoa]

it's hosted on photobucket and others have told me the iPhone is weak so it can't play it.

[cu0ngsayz]

Either the iPhone isn't letting me see that there's a video. Or there isn't a video at all

[eklikewhoa]

It's already set up and there's a vid in the purigen thread in the chemistry sub forum.

[New_Cichlid11]

very interesting man i might want to do this in the near future. post a vid after you set it up on your tank

[eklikewhoa]

I have a vid in the purigen thread in the chemistry forum.

It works just the same as if used on a SW/Reef tank but with a lot less flow to fluidize since the purigen is much lighter than normal media meant for the reactor, actually slightly less than what you would on a Rowa Phos reactor.

instead of passing water though a bag and only utilizing the outer, exposed media you "bounce" the media in the reactor and water passes around every bit of media thus creating a 100% efficiency from the media.

Running out of the wet/dry is the same, pump feeds into the reactor from whichever chamber that holds water (I chose the last chamber to minimize detritus that enters the reactor) then it returns into the drip tray to keep the wet/dry running when I shut off the return pump during water changes.

a lot of reef technology applied to FW which works great seeing as though Tanganyikan closely resembles that of a reef.

[cu0ngsayz]

i wonder too.... lets get a video or something of how this thing works