Biotope-ly correct?

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Hi all,

I've been thinking of a rescape lately, because my driftwood has been covered in some sort of black slime thingy ( not BGA ) that I cannot get rid off, and now my driftwood looks exactly the same as the colour of my black background paper. So I thought: Heck, time to rescape.

I want to do a river like theme, with river rocks, crypt balansae, lots of Java Moss thinly draped over the rocks, a few dottings of crypt wendtii/becktii/some rosette crypt around. Possibly crypt parva for the foreground too. Heck, the whole damn tank is going to be crypt if I can help it.

Got my ideas off a very beautiful and serene tank in Nature Aquarium World Book 1, also in AquaJournal Vol 35. Got some info from here too.

What I want to ask is: The main fish are also going to be Asian, Trigonostigma Espei. As such, I prefer to make it a river biotope-sort of tank.

Are the plants listed above found in their habitats? budak, you gotta help me out here

[lorba]

Most crypts are from this eastern region of ours, and most likely you can find rasboras like rasboras, barbs, loaches and red shrimps in the biotope.

If you want to create a real biotope, it could be even a rock tank alone. Or just one kind of crypts in it. You will not find manyl kinds of cryptocorynes in one place.

Wendtiis are in sri lanka, do you find espei there? I am not too familiar with espei, lets do a check.

For an asian theme, not narrowing down to An Espei Biotope, you can probably use all kinds of crypts, java moss.

Check this http://132.229.93.11/Cryptocoryne/index.html for crypts in their regions.

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Hey lorba, thanks for the reply!

Nope, espei isn't in Sri Lanka as far as I know. Are wendtiis only found in Sri Lanka? How about cyrpt cordata?

Great link, thanks! ( abit laggy though :P, still waiting for the alphabet list to show up )

[lorba]

there are many cordate crypts around.

in Malaysia region, cordata var cordata, zonata, longicauda etc. Wendtii-like plants are probably nurii.

You can probably order cordata var blassii, var siamensis from the LFS.

[tano_horcas]

hi!
i was reading the topics and i be interested in the link "crypts in their regions" , but is down, have you other?