A withe water river in Thailand - biotope aquarium.

I am fond of aquariums and in particular biotope tanks. I am trying to recreate the habitat of the fish. I am not  too strictly following the habitat, but I am trying to select fish and plants that are found in similar region (not obligatory the same stream)

The first aquarium was a South East Asia biotope - white water river in Thailand. It started like this:

Plants: Rotala indica, Lymnophila sessilifolia, Hygrophila siamensis "small", Hygrophila angustifolia, Hygrophila difformis, Microsorium pteropus, Cryptocoryne wendtii brown, Cryptocoryne Lutea, Cryptocoryne cordate, Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia.
Fish: 11 Puntius tetrazona, 11 Trigonostigma espei, 5 Crossocheilus siamensis, 5 Pangio kuhlii.

March 2009:

Then I removed most of the fast growing plants and it became like this:

December 2009

In March 2011 I moved to a bigger tank - 330l / 146x5x50h. I kept the same idea of the aquarium, the fish, the plants and roots and added some more. It is a typical "slow" aquarium.

Plants: Microsorium pterosus normal, narrow and needle, Cryptocoryne wendtii brown, Cryptocoryne Lutea, Cryptocoryne cordate, Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia, Cyperus Helferi.

Fish: 25 Puntius tetrazona, 25Trigonostigma espei, 7 Crossocheilus siamensis, 2 Gyrinocheilus aymonieri, 10 Pangio kuhlii.

June 2011:

  

December 2011:

July 2012:

I still have some problems with the plants, especially the Microsorum and Cyperus Helferi

That aquarium is situated in our bedroom: