Aplocheilichthys normani

When you see pictures of stunning planted tanks it's not unusual to
see not that many fish and often they'll be all the same species. I
have a bunch of tanks but have two, that while neither are remotely
up to AGA showcase standards are my besy planted tanks Once is
the source of the pictures I took to make the graphic for the
header of aquaria.net and in that tank there's only one species
of fish, the one named in ths Subject: line.

I've had a dozen or so fis in that tank - and besides some snails and a few shrimp
that's all thats's in there - for about a year or so now. And the population
has doubled. Just feed them and stand back and given the size
of the tank - 40 something gallons and the amount of plants in there
they don't actually ned feeding that often. I see them all the time
eating things from the water column far too small for
me to see and in some weeks I only feed them once or twice and they
never seem to mind - babies appear all the time regardless.

To my mind although they're one of those scary killifish that poeple
think die in a year (they don't) I think they're the perfect lpanted tank
fish.

Here's a few pics:

http://rs79.vrx.net/works/photoblog/2006/oct/3/
http://rs79.vrx.net/works/photoblog/2006/oct/2/
http://rs79.vrx.net/works/photoblog/2006/oct/1/

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