Tanganyikan set up

**Lab_Rat** · 10-10-2010, 04:30 AM

Here's my new set up for some Tanganyikan shell dwellers and rock dwellers. I'm thinking about attempting a riparium type tank, so I've only filled the tank halfway. I didn't bother with substrate since I'll be moving in about 8 months and didn't want to mess with it. It's a very simple set up, with some rocks, plants, and the fish. Filtration is an internal whisper filter and a sponge filter (tough to figure out filtration for a half filled tank.) Stock is leleupi, juli transcriptus fry, and a couple of multies that escaped being caught for the auction. Very low bioload tank.

**Lab_Rat** · 10-11-2010, 04:15 AM

Added some riparium plants. Since the riparium planters are expensive I made my own out of the sponge prefilters I use on my canisters. They were all getting old and manky so I figured the plants would like to root in them. I used some suction cups to attach the plants to the back for two of them. We'll see if my ghetto riparium works.

**Lab_Rat** · 10-11-2010, 04:16 AM

Some of the tank residents

**korith** · 10-11-2010, 07:28 AM

Good looking holey rock! The transcriptus get along with the rest?

I've seen people use those suction cup soap dishes meant for showers as ledges for plants. I was thinking about trying to silicone a glass shelf inside the tank, sort of like a planter box people put on their windows.

**Lab_Rat** · 10-11-2010, 02:51 PM

Thanks! The transcriptus are tiny, about 3/4", so they don't bug anyone. The leleupi and multies will squabble when the leleupi get to close to the multies territory, but since I've moved everything with the new set up, a lot of that has dissipated.