Help Please - Plecs in the wild

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SilverDub

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I will be building a Xingu/Altamira Biotope and trying my hardest to replicate in Nano (by comparison) in my 260ltr tank. the natural enviroment and there natural neighbours. In recent years I have always tended to throw tanks together and make them functional, this time I want a piece of the Xingu in my living room. I have been in brief talks with Colchester Zoo about doing an installation in there aquarium but they want to see what I have planned first.

Like many of us I have spent hours/days trawling the web for fish information (it becomes an addiction). Recently I have been looking for natural biotope and more specifically Xingu (Belo Monte/Altamira) images and/or footage. If you search Altamira you get lots of people at the beech at Altamira and I've found some beautiful landscape shots and a few of rocky out crops in the water and of course the rapids (boy do they look rapid). I have tried in vain to find some under water shots but to very little avail.

Today i found a very important picture of H Zebra in its natural enviroment, so far this is the only picture I have found of this subject matter. Interestingly the Zebra was flanked by 2 small L18/81 in the same rocky crevice.

If any of you guys out there have found good natural images or footage of this area please post the links I would really appreciate it?

Many thanks
Alan
 
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Example of the flow rate near Altamira:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b8YqZ1s0-w

Example of rockscapes in the Iriri (awesome wolf fish - Hoplias Malabaricus and Peacock Bass fishing as well) which shows the types of apex predators these fish live with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul_d5QgIsBw&feature=related

This is a beautiful fishing montage at Belo Monte/Volta Grande it shows wonderful rockscapes at low water levels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OtcV6tPr7Y&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
 
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I couldn't find many habitat pictures in plec bookmark library, but this is what I could find.

Catching Baryancistrus xanthellus in (presumably) Xingu or Iriri.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSTKNok60ho&lr=1&user=lienweichieh

PC underwater pics for species from the Xingu.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/captions.php?search=underwater

Not Xingu/Altamira specific but a good collection of underwater videos in German and English.

http://www.aquanet.tv/Kategorie/Expeditionen

Catching Panaque in the Araguaia(?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRN33xDLmnw&feature=related

http://ameblo.jp/panaqs/page-13.html#main
 
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not jealous at all

see now that just sucks. watching those guys just grabbing those fish out of the water like that is just annoying:eek:hmy:
 
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I spent a week in the Xingu mate :)

Thng with flow rate is that it's different every few meters, I've never seen anything like it mate. The depths change constantly and the currents can be wild in some places and still in others. If I was doing a L46 biotope then I'd have the flow as fast as possible, as the L46 where in the deepest water with wild currents. Thing with nuggets is they are under practically every rock In the river lol so your bound to find them with L46's.

Personally if I was going to do a Xingu Biotope (main river that is) then I'd go with White sand, rocks and plenty of flow and maybe a piece of wood as I did come across a couple of fallen trees.

I've got pic's on a external hard drive if you'd like me to post them?

Kev
 
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HI Kev, thanks for the info its difficult to get first hand experience. If you could post pictures that would be great. With regards to flow I have a thing for SEIO water circulators and seem to be collecting them even though I have no intention of using them all. I have 2 6000lph and 1 10000lph which might be over kill on a 260ltr tank.

I've been scouring youtube for biotope inspiration and think some of the Malawi keepers have the right idea for rock scape so I'll go down that route with play sand I think see how we get on with that.
 
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kevaldo said:
I spent a week in the Xingu mate :)

Thng with flow rate is that it's different every few meters, I've never seen anything like it mate. The depths change constantly and the currents can be wild in some places and still in others. If I was doing a L46 biotope then I'd have the flow as fast as possible, as the L46 where in the deepest water with wild currents. Thing with nuggets is they are under practically every rock In the river lol so your bound to find them with L46's.

Personally if I was going to do a Xingu Biotope (main river that is) then I'd go with White sand, rocks and plenty of flow and maybe a piece of wood as I did come across a couple of fallen trees.

I've got pic's on a external hard drive if you'd like me to post them?

Kev
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hi mate i don't suppose you could send me some of the pics aswell as i am trying to go down this route? cheers
 
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