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In my new setup I'll have the same fish of these tank: Apistogramma borelli, Aphyocharax rathbuni and Corydoras aeneus.
Sfortunatamente passo ad un nuovo allestimento perchè ho avuto un blocco del filtro in concomitanza con la caduta accidentale di molto cibo in vasca durante la mia assenza che...
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Rio Guporè is between Bolivia and Brazil. In the same area there is the Pantanal. I think that in the Brazilian part of Rio Guaporè there are a lot of plants; probably more than in other Bolivian parts of the river...
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in this page there is a biotope of Rio Guporè by Bleher. There is the image but not the description with the name of the plants. In Rio Guaporè there are a lot of plants and it is similar to a Pantanal biotope...
Italiano anche tu? :) Grazie del complimento :)
La pianta alta è L'Echinodorus grandiflorus: dovrebbe crescere fino ad uscire dalla vasca.
Tha tall plant on the back is Echinodorus grandiflorus: it should grow and come out of the tank.
Thanks for your answer :) The Potamogeton is invasive: I have started with 7 stems and now it covers all the floor. Indeed the floor is covered by the Potamogeton and not by the E. bolivianus! But the result is good imho.
I agree with you; I'll add some coconut caves and dead leaves.
I add...
Thanks for your answer Mike! They can tolerate a wide range of parameters, evidently. Also my tapwater has the same parameters of the yours. I'd like to keep them in my tank but in Italy they aren't common and, moreover, the opinion of gerald is very convincing :)
Hi gerald :) Thanks for your explanation. I agree with your opinion: probably Phalloceros in nature live also in soft and acidic water but not because they prefer that conditions.
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my name is Matteo and I'm Italian.
I have read about this fish in an article about Paraguayan fish (but it could be found also in other countries).
It is Phalloceros caudimaculatus, but there are also other species of Phalloceros in the same "biotope". It is a Poeciilidae but it seems that...