Cichlid – Green Apollo

Guppies

Male guppy with its beautiful big tail, each guppy has its own special and colourful design. Amazing just to watch them swim and surprisingly only male have such big dress like tail.

Female Guppy with its roundish body and smaller tail design. Female guppy has less colour compared to the male and usually body only have one similar colour tone.

Mating, female on the left and male on the right.

Cichlid – Frontosa

Water Lily [nymphaea cultivars]

Water Hycinth [ eichhornia crassipes ]

Water Hycinth, a common floating aquatic plant found in lakes and river banks throughout southeast asia. It produces one of the most beautiful flower and a healthy hycinth has a shiny green leaves. This is a very easy to grow plant and need very little care, just plenty of lights and can be used to filter your little fish pond or outdoor aquarium.

I grew my first batch in a poly tank and added some soil in it. They multiply quickly and they will grow bigger if the water contain fertiliser which comes from changing my aquarium water.

A shocking discovery, healthy water hycinth seems to have blue roots, most aquatic plants reference books says white roots are healthy. However, this is white and blue, sometimes black. Those water hycinth which has total black roots usually are the dying ones and they are really tough plants, if you sense something is wrong, just add tap water and flush out some old water. That should fix it, you wont run out of hycinth, usually you need to remove some to prevent congestion.