At first glance the River Bottom name may seem odd, but once you begin to understand the thought behind the name…
At first glance the River Bottom name may seem odd, but once you begin to understand the thought behind the name…
At first glance the River Bottom name may seem odd, but once you begin to understand the thought behind the name…the thought behind the concept, I think you too will come to appreciate the focus the name implies.
What is the need for River Bottom? I am a lifelong aquarium hobbyist. It is my love for nature, my love for life in its’ purest form that hooked me at a very young age. It is a love that I introduced to my wife, and passed down to my daughter. Setting up a new aquarium is a time of great excitement, blending different species of fish to create a vibrant active environment requires planning and knowledge. As your aquarium begins to mature there is one inevitable outcome. No matter what you do the community of fish you put together reaches its’ natural conclusion, the strongest survive. Now you have a fraction of the fish you started with. The diversity of life is gone and it’s at this point many aquarium enthusiast loose the passion. So you have to ask yourself, why didn’t it work? The answer is you only copied one of the four layers found in an ecosystem. Four layers you say? Let me take you back to high school biology and specifically the study of ecosystems. Where in the world would you find the greatest diversity of life? That’s right, the Amazon Rain Forest. Now, how many layers make up the Amazon Rain Forest? Correct, there are four layers, the Emergent, Canopy, Understory and the Forest Floor. The concept of River Bottom recreates these four distinct layers to produce an in home “vivarium” capable of sustaining multiple species and for some species it is a fully functional ecosystem. Right in your own home! Like the forest floor and the rivers that flow through them, nutrients and food fall from above, and while few species actually make their home at the bottom, instead selecting a more suitable habitat from one of the upper layers, it is where they all come to feed. This is what you want to see, this is the River Bottom concept.
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