Chuck's Aquarium Page

Attention anyone in the Denver, CO area:

I am always looking to trade plants with others. Email me if you would like to get together to trade.

Great News! I located a bunch of M. herbertaxelrodi at Nautilus Fish in Longmont, Colorado. I just picked up 5 of them. They are very young right now, so their colors haven't developed at all. Once they grow out more, I'll pick out several to save for myself, and I'll be selling or trading the others.

75g Heavily Planted Rainbow tank

or Click here for a REALLY BIG version (113K)

Equipment:
240 watts of flourescent lighting, provided by 6 40w tubes. CO2 injection using a 5lb CO2 tank, high pressure regulator, and Eheim CO2 diffusor. Substrate is locally collected river gravel/sand, with a little flourite mixed in by accident! Filtration is provided by a home-made wet/dry. Heat provided by 2 Ebo Jager 250w submersibles, in the sump.
Water Parameters:
Temp: 77 degrees (f) pH: 7.6 from the tap, 6.6 after CO2 injection KH: 4.0 dKH GH: 6.0 dGH	Nitrates: 0 with the AP Dry-tab high-range test, 5-10ppm with the Red Sea test. Fertilizers: Daily addition of KNO3, Iron chelate, Zinc chelate.

Flora:
General Pics
3 Amazon swords	No pics available
1 Melon sword Aglaonema simplex
3 Banana Plants Nyphoides aquatica (one produced from a runner!)
Wisteria Hygrophila difformis	No pics available
Hygro Hygrophila polysperma
Pennywort (?) Hydrocotyle leucocephala
Micranthemum umbrosum	No pics available
Red Hygrophila Alternanthera rosaefolia
Java Moss Vesicularia dubyana	No pics available
Java Fern Microsorium pteropus	No pics available
Tiger Val Vallisneria spiralis "Tiger"	No pics available
Spiral Val V. americana var. biwaensis.	No pics available
Cabomba Cabomba caroliniana	No pics available
Dwarf Sagittaria	No pics available
Cryptocoryne wendtii
Anubus nana
Madagascar Lace sword Aponogeton madagascariensis (Just got it, in real bad condition)
Tiger Lotus Nymphaea maculata
Bacopa Monnieri
2 new plants, possibly Cryptocorynes Can you identify these for me???

Fauna
Pictures of several rainbowsfish groups together
2 Glossolepis incisus Irian Red Rainbowfish More Info
2 Melanotaenia lacustris Turquoise Rainbows More Info
2 Melanotaenia praecox Neon Rainbows More Info
2 Melanotaenia boesemani Boeseman's Rainbowfish More Info
5 Melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi More Info Note: These guys are very young. About 1" long. They haven't gotten any of their color yet.
7 Iriatherina werneri Threadfin Rainbowfish More Info
This one is not a great pic, but if you look closely, you can see the one on the left "displaying", raising his top fin. The fin is taller than his body when raised.
1 Farlowella sp. Twig Catfish More Info
7 Corydoras reticulatus More Info
9 Otocinclus vittatus and Otocinclus vestitus Otos More Info on O. vittatus and O. vestitus
5 Crossocheilus siamensis Siamese Algae Eaters More Info	No pics available
1 Platydoras costatus Striped Raphael catfish More Info	No pics available
5 Caridina japonica Yamato Shrimp, aka Algae Eating Shrimp	No pics available
1 Red Ramshorn (hitchhiker!)
TONS of Malaysian Trumpet Snails	No pics available