Uaru updates!

[Brookster123]

I agree but I think Uaru are harder on plants than severums.

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Some giant anubias zip tied on would look pretty sweeeeeet!

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[Freakgecko91]

Thanks everyone!

The tree stump was found by a river and I cut it to size using a hand saw and hammer lol I lack good tools here. It took me about 2-3 hours to cut it and get it into the tank.

Uaru are HORRIBLE with plants. They are yet to bug some anubias nana in there or some tiny Java ferns. I wanna try lily pads to create some cover, add some color, and make it unique

I'm open to donations of anubias as I'm starting to become a bit tapped out on funds lol


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[PassengerTN]

The ones at the LFS are amphiacanthoides, stopped by to find out lol. $18.99/each



Jesse

 

[Freakgecko91]

Yup. I paid $25 each for mine so that's a pretty solid deal, although I know when I lived in Michigan, they were always of poor stock


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[NigelK8485]

Yup. I paid $25 each for mine so that's a pretty solid deal, although I know when I lived in Michigan, they were always of poor stock


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Did you go through Liveaquaria?


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[PassengerTN]

She has has these for awhile now, probably 6 weeks or more. I wouldn't think they're bad stock. She generally has nice stock


Jesse

 

[Freakgecko91]

I got them from a fish store near Baltimore.

They probably aren't. I'm just saying I had a lot of bad luck with them back home

The current stock list is:
6 uaru amphiacanthoides
1 crencichla regani (his mate wouldn't eat anything, withered away into nothing :/ )
24 Lemon tetra
13 Sterbai Cory
1 porthole catfish
2 apisto borelli (just added them)
2 bristlenose plecos
1 vampire pleco

 

[HUKIT]

The tank looks great!! Do you have any idea what kind of tree that is? I've used a few in the past that started to rot extremely quick. Which is why I only use manzanita now.

 

[Freakgecko91]

I'm not sure, I found it along a local river, and it had gotten pushed down from recent flooding. All the bark was stripped and it appears to be holding up well so far, and has finally sank


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[Freakgecko91]

So I looked more into the apistos I picked up and I knew they looked off for borelli. Pretty sure they're apistogramma sp. steel blue, the potential hybrid...not too happy about that mislabeling and my carelessness when looking at them. I knew the blue spangling on the face wasn't right for borelli


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[Gillie]

So I looked more into the apistos I picked up and I knew they looked off for borelli. Pretty sure they're apistogramma sp. steel blue, the potential hybrid...not too happy about that mislabeling and my carelessness when looking at them. I knew the blue spangling on the face wasn't right for borelli


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Pics? There have been a couple of rarely seen species that are similar to sp. Steel blue circulating in the last couple of months.

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[Freakgecko91]

And some uaru pics!


What do you think? Branches hanging? Or back down?



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[Bichir Bro]

I like hanging down, gives it a really cool optical affect along with the downed stump.


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[Gillie]

Could be sp. Steelblue, but it kind of looks like sp. Wangenflecken.

I also see a problem with your pics, there is an empty tank in them.

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[mikem691]

I like them hanging also. And thanks for posting more pictures. Its been awfully boring in here lately. The Uaru look great.

 

[Brookster123]

I like everything I see! Don't see an empty tank though? ? Shellies right?

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[Freakgecko91]

Thanks guys, I just know they're not borelli. I do like these two, lots of personality

The tank below are altolamprologus sp. sumbu white dwarf


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[Freakgecko91]

Could be sp. Steelblue, but it kind of looks like sp. Wangenflecken.

I also see a problem with your pics, there is an empty tank in them.

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Wangenflecken look awfully right for these guys!


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[Freakgecko91]

Also scored a 100 gallon metaframe tank the other day!


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