#329: 345L Biotope Aquascape North outskirts of Pantanal, Brazil.

Kamil Hazy Poznan, Poland

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Dimensions 180 × 60 × 32 cm
Title North outskirts of Pantanal, Brazil.

Volume 345L
Background Black foil
Lighting 40x 1W 6500K LED modules on 12 indepentent channels
13x 0,7W RGB LED modules on 3 lines (R,G,B)
2x 6W Aquael Leddy tube plant (8000K)
4x 6W Aquael Leddy tube sunny (6500K)
Filtration Eheim 2228 canister filter
Eheim skim 350
Aquael Circulator 1500
Plants Echinodorus tenellus, Echinodorus angustifolius, Hydrocotyle leucocephala, Myriophyllum aquaticum, Cabomba aquatica, Bacopa monnieri, Pistia stratiotes, Salvinia molesta, Lemna minor
Animals Apistogramma trifasciata 3+3
Apistogramma borelli 3+3
Corydoras sterbai 10x
Corydoras hastatus 20x
Nannostomus beckfordi 16x
Nannostomus eques 12x
Materials Substrate: Fine sand with peat
Decor: Driftwood
Additional Information Aquarium represents a northern part of the second most largest wetland in the world. It's a Clear Water biotope with dense aquatic vegetation, and some roots/branches of trees along the banks of ponds/rivers/flooded areas. This type of environment creates very good place to live for small species like Apistogramma sp., Corydoras sp. and Nannostomus sp. During the rainy season, with plenty of food, fish can easily spawn and fry is safe to grown between plants, roots and detritus from fallen leaves.
Water parameters: Temp. 24C; pH 6,8; KH 2; GH 4.


Lighting in the tank recreates a sun movement in 12h interval, starting from red/orange, yellow, and white light and move from left to right side of the tank, ending with red/orange again. All works under three LED controllers, each with fully programmable 5 independent lines.

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