(200) 180l Red swamp, Southeast Asia, Channa bleheri
Warning: Contains old, ancient emigrants from the South of America, representatives of the genus Corydoras.. (female sterbai, female panda, male paleatus).. And African plants Anubias (where to put the nice surplus? 🤭..) They live there only to the end of their days and grow only in a stopover☝️.. So take the subcategory "biotope" with a grain of salt🫠..
The main inhabitant is the male Channa bleheri (somehow turned brown after two years, so probably the brown form), bred by Kuba Lasota, Heiko. Snails Planorbids, Lymnaeids, one lost Clithon, lost and rediscovered Melanoides, Filopaludina..
It is still a low-tech aquarium, where the only technology includes a pumping head from jk animals and an LED tube hsbao retrofit. Occasionally a skimmer jingye, for emergencies when one doesn't want to use tweezers.. But I don't want to get rid of it completely (is that possible?), I make jichu for watering houseplants 😁.. We fertilize with fish waste and maximum long-term NPK fertilizer in the substrate. The used leachate is literally alchemy. The base is Kachu, leaves of Quercus robur, Fagus, Schima, alder cones and leaves, Sphagnum, torf, lotus petals, lotus fruit.... The representatives of the plants growing here are Microsorum, Cryptocoryne, Bolbitis, Najas, Limnophila, Schismatoglottis, my favorite and simultaneously hated Lotus tiger, sometimes red, sometimes green, as it pleases (can be seen in the photo in my gallery, so I'm not making it up..), which was obtained by Jirka Fojtik from Surpan and from whom I also have Schismatoglottis (thanks!), Limna, Rhygoriza (I have it again after 5 years, thanks to Míla Popelka 🍀), and somewhere among all this are still living, just somehow leafless stems of Hydrocotyle leucocephala 😅... And finally, Java and hybrid mosses, Cladophora and Rhizoclonium, which didn't want to grow for a long time .. 👌.. And the lighting conditions themselves? Terrible... But it's growing! 😂
