BIOTOPE AQUARIA -- Updated December.7.2004
A biotope aquaria is an aquarium that is set-up to simulate a natural habitat. The fish, plants, water chemistry, and furnishings are similar to those that can be found in a specific natural setting.
A biotope is a tank that is set up to simulate accurately the original environment of the animal as much as possible. This is includes the type of plants (if any), snails, companion fish, other life and substrate, rocks.
A Biotope from the "Me" Decade
Perhaps my all-time favorite is the Skippy Fletcher tank biotope. In this biotope, the aquarist seeks to replicate the tank owned by Skippy Fletcher, one of my boyhood pals.
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Freshwater Biotope vs. Saltwater Reef
I've always thought that keeping a well balanced planted biotope tank is probably harder than any reef tank and takes more knowledge of ecosystems and the living things within them, ...
Apistogramma biotopes
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Shorelines vs. open water
by Marco Lacerda (Sun, 02 Nov 1997)
Shorelines vs. open water
by "Vinod Kutty" (Thu, 13 Nov 1997) ...
An 160 liter miniature m'buna biotope
by Antonis Roussos
My first - accidental - visit at MCH functioned as a challenge for a deeper and more complete knowledge of the Mbuna flock.
Biotope:
Betta antoni was collected in the extreme upper reaches of the little flow of the inside of the hill. It was also found inhabiting the northern part of Sanggau and a forest on the south side of Nangah Pinoh.
Biotope Natural environment of a organism.
Black Water Water that has a dark cola-like color caused by Humic acids, it has a very low pH and is very soft, common in the Amazon river basin.
Biotopes :
Fish only - totally up to you - could have a genus tank, with fishes of the same genus like yellow tang, sailfin tang in the Zebrasoma genus,
or say a tank of groupers in the Epinephelus genus.
Biotope Aquarium - An aquarium that is designed with the intent to reproduce an existing natural habitat or niche, in terms of its physical/visual characteristics and its naturally occurring species. See Biotope. Also see Theme.
Biotope: Natural environment of an organism.
Bioturbation: Reworking of sediments by organisms that burrow and ingest them.
A biotope of a West African river can be reconstructed in an aquarium.
Lake Tanganyika.
The Biotope: P. maccus are only found amongst driftwood tangles close to the banks in the main river channels. Their striped brown and cream coloured body provides excellent camouflage in this environment.
The ideal biotope for the Black Neon Tetra includes subdued lighting, live plants, open space for swimming, a dark substrate, and a healthy water current in the mid to upper region of the aquarium where they prefer to swim.
The normal biotope should be copied to provide optimum care. These fighting fish reside in peat swamp forests, underneath trees where hardly any sunlight penetrates the canopy. Many roots and branches with hardly any plant growth.
The brackish biotope
Brackish habitats can be found in nature throughout the world where river deltas meet the ocean. estuaries, mangrove forests, or swamps.
Firstly, because this is their natural biotope. As I always proclaim, fishkeeping is both an art and a science. It is always stupid to neglect nature's lessons.
Keep a 45-gallon temperate seagrass lagoon biotope seahorse tank between 65 and 68°Fahrenheit.
These are referred to as 'Biotope' aquariums. They replicate a natural water way, such the Amazon Basin for an Amazon biotope, and incorporate plants and fish found in those habitats.
If you keep species that are native to a rocky biotope, it is important that you provide them with numerous rocky areas in the aquarium. This will serve two purposes.
A lovely colourful miniature fish worthy of its own species biotope tank or in a quiet well-planted community aquarium.
Without getting into a complete discourse on biotope or habitat ecology, which is beyond the scope of this article, we will discuss one principle of ecology for the purposes of illustrating the cause and effect of changes to species population, ...
Unless you are going for a particular biotope it is recommended just using a fine natural colour aquarium gravel with a base of laterite for the plants. When setting up make sure that your tank is level and supported across its entire width.
Biotope aquariums
Amazon floodplain stream
Central American Lake
Central American coastal stream
East African temporary pool
West African rainforest stream
Lake Malawi rocky
Lake Tanganyika
South East Asian inland water
South East Asian river ...
In other words, they are designed to replicate a painted picture of nature; many times they are biotope specific.
One piece of advice that we'd like to pass along is that you may have the best results if you try to focus on a particular biotope or niche on the reef.
It doesn't really matter, unless one is aiming for a strict Amazonian biotope, what kind of plants the Lemons have as company, so long as they have plants, arranged so as to provide the combination of hiding places and open water which they like.
Apistogramma steindachneri is kept in next tanks: Guyana biotope,
Photos of the Apistogramma steindachneri:
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Die Bachlinge besetzen in Süd- und Mittelamerika etwa die Biotope, die die Prachtkärpflinge in Afrika besetzen.
Plesiolebias cf. lacerdai
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There are variations but the above covers the three main categories pretty well. A further possibility would be a species tank for instance or a biotope tank (e.g. only animals from a certain region - Red Sea for example).
In theory fish could live in this, but not for very long! As we are going to be maintaining a mini bit of aquatic biotope in our houses, some equipment will be needed to keep our fishy friends alive.
As a result they will be quite colorful and lively. Very hardy fish, that does well in every tank. They can stand very hard water, and if a biotope aquarium isn't preferred, would make a nice addition to a african(Malawi/Tanganjika) cichlid tank.
a Piece of driftwood with Java fern attached, some spikes of a dwarf type of grass, a banana lily, my favorite betta Fred, a Florida flagfish, and two cherry shrimp. Add a 'seasoned' Palm filter and a 25W desk lamp..voila! A neat little biotope atop ...
If you are finding it difficult to choose, look for fish that are from the same part of the world that would live together naturally. You could even set up a ‘biotope’ aquarium (containing fish and plants from a specific place).
A perfect biotope to promote breeding, would be lots of bogwood, a few live native plants, with dark substrate and subdued lighting with floating plants.
 See also: Water, Fish, Species, Aquarium, Plants
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