Hendre's liquid legacy.

Hi all, It's finally time to do this thread. I have been seriously into fishkeeping since 2015 and got my first tanks in June 2016 starting with a 20l tank that was in storage and a 250l tank which was a monster for me! It's only getting worse. Currently I'm running 5 tanks in my room and one in my brothers room, with 8 species of fish, 3 of shrimp and +- 25 types of plants. Let's see...

250l tank - 2 Polypterus senegalus, 4 African brown knife (2m, 2f) and a synodontis euruptus.
60l tank - 8 glowlight tetras, one rosy barb and brucie my paradise fish.
40l - 4 pygmy gouramis, lovely creatures
30l - +-70 sakura/cherry shrimp
20l - M/F pumpkin shrimp pair
16l - 4 Blue carbon shrimp
And a rack soon to come

Plants? Let's not start...

My favourite fish are my African knives and polypterus, amazing fish from Africa. I got 2 male knives over a year ago, and then 2 females recently. The polypterus I have had since April/May this year. I have a captive bred fish, nibblet after his habits, and a Nigerian wild caught, toothless. Just awesome fish.

Here is nibblet in April 2017 when I got her, a toothpick of a fish, maybe 10cm tops:


Now here she is months later, thick and big!

The other one is toothless, a beautiful wild caught fish


The 2 together, nibblet left and toothless right:



Some knife shots, there are 4; night-time and day-time(males), then dawn and dusk(females) all named by my brother based on colours haha.

Now for some gourami action, I've had these for two weeks and I love them. Microworms are a favourite food


An old photo of my glowlight school:


Brucie (after Bruce Lee) my paradise fish, love this fella! His fins have recovered since this photo was taken


I'm a mad planted tank fan, and I set up all of my tanks with plants, black sand and a black background. It makes the colour really pop and gives a clean look. Have yet to breed fish but I'd need more tanks for that, so not yet

A long term goal of mine is to breed my knifefish, it basically hasn't been done before so I want to crack the code, I have a mixed group and with the help of a varied and thorough diet I hope to trigger it one day. For now I'm focusing on my gourami group I'm hoping to breed them soon

I hope you all enjoyed this thread, more pics to follow

 

Looking very good Hendré. So many more rooms in the house you can take over. Don't stop now.

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Full tank shots and stuff:

My sakuras and their tank:


Side view of the 60l


Gourami tank:



Carbon blues and tank:


250l tank:

My pumpkins:

 

Nice man! and about time too.

 

A catchy title, great looking tanks and happy inhabitants seem to indicate that you are doing things right.
Keep up the good work (in headmaster voice)

 

Very nice thread @Hendre!!

Beautiful tanks
Those polys and the knives have really grown and that tank looks stunning
Would be awesome if you did ever manage to breed them..

 

Stunning Hendre Stunning

 

Yeah typically you see a for sale sign in a few months, hope this was not the peak of his legacy.

 

My only sales plans are shrimp, I'll need to thin out my sakura sooner or later

I am also now trying some emersed growing. Anubias "petite" on the left, Buce Catherinia rhizome in the middle and a black lizard on the right. I'm hoping this will grow. Substrate is peat fiber with tank water and DSD fertilizer added to it

 

Update time

Built a rack! On it is my 30l shrimp tank and 60l plant holding tank. Then I also have my 30l gourami tank on my desk

 

That looks awesome .. where you going to put your buce ?

 

I'm going to make the bottom tank into an emersed setup. Actually got the lights today

Some buce melawi in the gourami tank as well

 

Very nice tanks

 

Looking awesome @Hendre .. well done!!

You have sure put in a lot of hard work.. its really paid off

 

Thanks

 

Awesome work buddy!