HABITAT
creating a
Volta River Biotope
For my first ‘biotope’ tank, which I wrote about in a previous issue, I confined myself only to species which were native to Thailand. But as I learned more about the different fish I had in that tank, I realised that, even though they were all found in one country, their distributions didn’t necessarily overlap. So, for my next attempt at a biotope, I decided to 40 ∙ Aquarium World
by Melanie Newfield
confine myself to species which all occurred in the same river catchment. I was, at the time, setting up my third Fluval flex tank for Norman’s lampeye killifish (Poropanchax normani). It was going to be a species tank – just the Norman’s lampeyes – so I didn’t need to worry about finding other fish that came from the same area. But the
