Jessica Dring
10-15-2008, 2:35 PM
As above!
I did a search, but none of the threads I found had answers to all the questions I have. I've been trying to research these critters, but I'm getting very confused by the different ones available and the best ones suited to captivity!
Me and my BF want to set up a very nice, realistic natural setup for these critters. We would like sand substrate, with mangrove roots and a few places for them to come onto land. The mangrove roots won't be real, my BF designs and builds naturalist vivaria and aquaria on the side to his job, so its gonna be a real nice project.
We had in mind a 4x2x2 BUT
The size of the tank isn't an issue..we can give as much space as they will need.
We really wanted the larger species, I think those are the African ones? Please correct me if I'm wrong. But I read they are very terratorial, but we definately want to keep more than one! I believe these are the most colourful also? Would it be feesable to keep a small group of these in a larger setup, most importantly comfortable?
If so, could anyone experienced with these guys either point me into the direction of a very detailed caresheet for this particular species, or help me with some detailed information about them? And reccomended tank size with number of inhabitants? That would be a great help. Scientific name would really help too, as I haven't been able to find any solid information on these guys.
I'm a complete newbie with Brackish too - as I'm aware all of the species require Brackish? I heard of one that could be kept in freshwater, but if they are more comfortable in Brackish then thats what I'll do.
I'm familiar with water quality having kept Rays and Arrowana's, but all I've ever kept has been Freshwater, so if there is a good thread that explains setting up a brackish setup for noobs, that would be awesome too!
I plan on taking my time on researching and creating the setup quite a while before I get these.
Thankyou in advance! :)
I did a search, but none of the threads I found had answers to all the questions I have. I've been trying to research these critters, but I'm getting very confused by the different ones available and the best ones suited to captivity!
Me and my BF want to set up a very nice, realistic natural setup for these critters. We would like sand substrate, with mangrove roots and a few places for them to come onto land. The mangrove roots won't be real, my BF designs and builds naturalist vivaria and aquaria on the side to his job, so its gonna be a real nice project.
We had in mind a 4x2x2 BUT
The size of the tank isn't an issue..we can give as much space as they will need.
We really wanted the larger species, I think those are the African ones? Please correct me if I'm wrong. But I read they are very terratorial, but we definately want to keep more than one! I believe these are the most colourful also? Would it be feesable to keep a small group of these in a larger setup, most importantly comfortable?
If so, could anyone experienced with these guys either point me into the direction of a very detailed caresheet for this particular species, or help me with some detailed information about them? And reccomended tank size with number of inhabitants? That would be a great help. Scientific name would really help too, as I haven't been able to find any solid information on these guys.
I'm a complete newbie with Brackish too - as I'm aware all of the species require Brackish? I heard of one that could be kept in freshwater, but if they are more comfortable in Brackish then thats what I'll do.
I'm familiar with water quality having kept Rays and Arrowana's, but all I've ever kept has been Freshwater, so if there is a good thread that explains setting up a brackish setup for noobs, that would be awesome too!
I plan on taking my time on researching and creating the setup quite a while before I get these.
Thankyou in advance! :)