I didn't want to interrupt micros thread on how to stock the new tank, so I decided to start an optional approach. I would love to have the problem, and believe me it would as much a problem.
I am big on L. Tanganyika.
If I had a 7 foot long tank I would spend hours building a scene such as Ad Konings defines the regions. Maybe a surge tank, with scattered rock piles and 6 power heads stirring the H out of the sand substrate (pre-filtered of course with sponges). Then I would stock it with fish endemic to the bioscape.
Or maybe I would construct a towering sloping rock pile to the rear of the tank to similate the precipitous rocks and stock it with colonies of rock dwellers. Thirty or forty 3 inch cichlids of many species plus colonies; now THAT would not be boring. I am inclined toward this.
If I had a tank that spanned the whole wall of a room I would do the rocks and stock 6-8 juvies of every specie-type that occurs in the biosphere in THE lake and see what survives.
Is anyone with me on this?
I am big on L. Tanganyika.
If I had a 7 foot long tank I would spend hours building a scene such as Ad Konings defines the regions. Maybe a surge tank, with scattered rock piles and 6 power heads stirring the H out of the sand substrate (pre-filtered of course with sponges). Then I would stock it with fish endemic to the bioscape.
Or maybe I would construct a towering sloping rock pile to the rear of the tank to similate the precipitous rocks and stock it with colonies of rock dwellers. Thirty or forty 3 inch cichlids of many species plus colonies; now THAT would not be boring. I am inclined toward this.
If I had a tank that spanned the whole wall of a room I would do the rocks and stock 6-8 juvies of every specie-type that occurs in the biosphere in THE lake and see what survives.
Is anyone with me on this?