European cold standing water aquarium

3. European coldwater aquarium replicating standing waters

List of Fish:

• ninespine stickleback Pungitius pungitius - body length up to 6 cm, live feed
• stickleback (threespine) Gasterosteus aculeatus - body length up to 8 cm, forms loose schools, live feed
• European bullhead Cottus gobio - body length up to 15 cm, predator, bottom-dwelling, live feed, protected
• ringed bullhead Cottus poecilopus - body length up to 15 cm, predator, bottom-dwelling, live and plant feed, protected
• ruffe Gymnocephalus cernua - body length up to 20 cm, bottom-dwelling and schooling, live feed
• dace Leuciscus leuciscus - body length up to 30 cm, schooling, live feed
• gudgeon Gobio gobio - body length up to 14 cm, schooling, live and plant feed
• spined loach Cobitis taenia - body length up to 12 cm, bottom-dwelling, live feed, protected
• silver bream Blicca bjoerkna - body length up to 30 cm, live and plant feed
• tench Tinca tinca - body length about 30 cm, live feed, protective dimension 25 cm
• Balkan loach Umbra krameri - body length up to 12 cm, live feed
• European weather loach Misgurnus fossilis - body length up to 30 cm, bottom-dwelling, nocturnal, live feed, protected
• roach Rutilus rutilus - body length up to 30 cm, schooling, plant and live feed
• sabre carp Ballerus ballerus - body length up to 30 cm, schooling, live feed
• European bitterling Rhodeus sericeus - body length up to 11 cm, schooling, plant feed (phytoplankton), protected
• European whitefish Coregonus albula - body length up to 30 cm, schooling, live feed
• stone loach Barbatula barbatula - body length up to 20 cm, bottom-dwelling, live feed, protected
• brown bullhead (American) Ameiurus nebulosus - body length up to 30 cm, live feed
• Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii - length up to 25 cm, an invasive alien species in Poland, which should not be released after being caught, live feed
• common bleak Alburnus alburnus - body length up to 20 cm, schooling species, live feed
• rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus - body length up to 30 cm, schooling species, plant feed, protection size 15 cm

List of other aquatic animals:

Snails:

• greater pond snail Radix balthica
• great pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis
• ear pond snail Radix auricularia
• river nerite Theodoxus fluviatilis
• sharp pond snail Physella acut
• common Bithynia Bithynia tentaculata
• white ram's horn Gyraulus albus
• shining ram's horn Segmentina nitida
• great ramshorn Planorbarius corneus
• common river snail Viviparus contectus

Crayfish:

• noble crayfish Astacus astacus - partially protected in Poland

Mussel:

• zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha
• painter's mussel Unio pictorum
• duck mussel Anodonta anatina

List of plants:

• yellow water-lily Nuphar lutea (partially protected in Poland)
• water chestnut Trapa natans L.
• Nuttall’s waterweed Elodea nuttallii
• common waterweed Elodea canadensis
• tape grass Vallisneria spiralis L.
• Hotton’s milfoil Hottonia palustris L
• water soldier Stratiotes aloides L.
• common bladderwort Utricularia vulgaris L.
• common spike-rush Eleocharis palustris
• needle spike-rush Eleocharis acicularis
• globular stonewort Chara globularis
• comb pondweed Stuckenia pectinata L.
• curled pondweed Potamogeton crispus L.
• broad-leaved pondweed Potamogeton natans
• shining pondweed Potamogeton lucens L.
• claspingleaf pondweed Potamogeton perfoliatus L.
• soft hornwort Ceratophyllum submersum L.
• common hornwort Ceratophyllum demersum L.
• common duckweed Lemna minor L.
• fat duckweed Lemna gibba L.
• purple duckweed Lemna turionifera L.
• three-grooved duckweed Lemna trisulca L.
• long-necked water starwort Callitriche cophocarpa
• floating fern Salvinia natans (species protected in Poland)
• water arrowhead Sagittaria sagittifolia L.
• floating crystalwort Riccia fluitans
• water buttercup Ranunculus aquatilis L. (species protected in Poland)
• spiked watermilfoil Myriophyllum spicatum
• whorled watermilfoil Myriophyllum verticillatum L.
• floating frogbit Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L.

Aquarium Arrangement:

This type of aquarium requires a sandy substrate in combination with gravel, fine-grained substrate. Plants, including floating plants, are essential. Decorative elements should include single stones, branches, or roots.