mud for my mudskippers?

[frasertheking]

got anypics id really like to see how you designed it to flood

 

[trouwvalk]

i'll post some pics later on
i'm at work right now

 

[trouwvalk]

and here are my mudskippers
enjoying the new mud in the tank

 

[Tanyoberu]

Oh CHEET! That's a nice Tank Trouwvalk.

But please explain the flooding system and what size tank is that?

 

[cassharper]

bizzump. I still want to see this flooding system.

 

[trouwvalk]

my tank is 130x60x60cm

and this is the overflow-system

A: is the floodlevel, it's higer then the overflow cup but that depend on the power of your pump
B: is the level of water when the pump shut's down
C: there's a small hole and that's the lowtide waterlevel

 

[Stab]

i've changed the substrate today into a mixture of sand and clay
it was an advise from a dutch biologist who specialises in magroves

That tank looks amazing! I am planning on setting up a mudskipper tank and would love to recreate what you did with the substrate. What is the exact ratio between sand and clay? What type of sand and what type of clay did you use? Are they (the mudskippers) still digging? Finally, what are the benefits of having changing tides in the tank?

 

[trouwvalk]

i've used 2 parts of clay from the fields over here (plain riverclay) and one part sand
it works perfect, still soft but also hard enough to digg tunnels and burrows.

the changing tides keep the mudskippers in the mood for egglaying (don't know how to say it in english)
and it's their natural habitat with high and low tides

 

[muckieman]

looks very cool i would love to do a flood system when i set up a mudskipper tank but i don't think i can since my tank will only be about 40g tank indian dawf mudskippers i'm brobly gonna do mircle mud i like the lok and loks more like natural habitat if you lok at some wild ones

 

[Stab]

Thanks for a quick reply. The tank does look amazing. Even the water being a bit cloudy from clay makes it look very natural. I am curious how this clay affects your PH?