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Plants
in the African tank
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Above:
Detail from the 1.300 liter, non-mbuna tank. An anubia has grown and
used both the gravel and the rocks to attach. The roots have
attached so strongly on the rocks that removing the rocks without
damaging the plant is impossible. |
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Left:
Detail from the planted 500 liter Mbuna tank. An anubia nana
flower is the result of near optimum conditions for the
plants. The white dots that rise from the plant are oxygen
bubbles, a result of intense photosynthesis. In this
environment all plants showed their best. Echinodorus sp. for
example produced new shouts every month which were cut and
planted. As a result, a very dense Amazon swordplant
"forest" provided shelter for fry and milder mbuna. |
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Right:
Detail from the 45 liter tank. Java fern pieces attached to
bogwood with nylon fishing line. The plant, after attachment,
shows a quick growth and is very rarely touched by cichlids -
not even mbuna. |
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Above:
Detail from the fry-raising tank. A Ceratophyllum sp. collected by
Francesco from Lake Malawi during his recent trip (October 99). The
plant is used to decorate one of the raising tanks, the one
which has become the house of the Fossorochromis rostratus wild
caught specimens, which Francesco kindly shared with me. A rootless,
dense plant, adds much to the appearance of this tank.
See next
page for more photos of my plants. |
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