Rack Setup

Thank you Martin, what a good idea to introduce ourselves, – maybe we should have an introduction sektion 🙂 ..
I really like your setup, and think its good to see how others manage to make setups, – with parosphromenus I find that one ends up very quickly wanting many many tanks, – and its probably very different how we all do.

Here is a picture of my ‘setup’ – some of it, rather, since I also have a few bigger tanks around in the house, – one with a few linkei offspring.

Its not the best photo though, but still.

Mine is all made of wood, – with the help of a friend.

Three of my small tanks, designed as “lamps” at the side of a sitting-place.
(Well – it’s not a rack set-up! I shall show that in the next mail.)

Those are beautiful, Peter, so nice to see how others do.

Kevin, I have the measures for my ‘thing’ – but its really quite simple. The material I bought in the local timbershop, what its called in english I am not sure, but just ordinary things that you use in buildings, quite cheap.
I had someone with a bit of knowledge about woodwork doing it for me, because of course it needs to be staple and I was unsure about it.
I can send more precise measures to you if you want, but its just a matter of how big you want it. I think mine is 2.70 m long, and about 0.40 deep.

Kindai, whom do you mean? Me? I don’t use any filters or air-pumps. Certainly, the licorice gouramis come from floating waters and they like that in the aquarium, no question. But they display and breed in my small stagnant waters, too. The only thing is that a small bubble-filter would make things a little easier for the aquarist by reducing the intervals for water-change. But it’s too noisy for me since the small tanks are part of my working studio.
And the neccessity for maintenance measures is quite diversified. Some tanks with a mass of Ceratopteris spec. will stand long-time stable and with only little germ-load, while others, mostly with less active plants, must be cared for every two weeks.