Native setup up and running!

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Plec123

Plec123

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Ive slowly been collecting stuff for my native 10gal tank, and ive finally got everything i wanted: 10 Softshell clams, 4 sandworms, 30 mudsnails, 3 little crabs, and 5 mummichogs!
The tank is being fed marine snow and frozen krill.
pics will be up soon. Does anyone have any experience with any of these animals?
Btw yhe mummichogs and sandwotms are fishing bait so theyll be gone soon.
 
Far from exotic lol i gt all the stuff from the beach 5min from my house.
The mud snails are a coldwater version of nassarius snails. When they found the chunks of krill in the tank they piled on top of each other just to get a bite of the krill.
Softshell clams can be found in grocery stpres as steamer clams, and after doing some research i found that i dont have mummichogs i have striped killifish.
 
i had a native marine setup last year. it was same size as yours infact. it was acually loads of fun and really interesting. i would do another one tomorrow, but i would definately do a bigger tank this time round. im thinking at least 400L. the 10g really limited my choice of livestock, to inverts, gobies and prawns, which is a shame as there are so many more interesting and unusual animals in the waters around the uk.

its nice to see others like myself, with an interest in animals on their doorstep.
 
I think if i was to do a real native setup i would need at least a 75gal. Theres a species of crab in my area called a lady crab thats extremely aggressive so i cant put it in my 10gal.
The small size of the tank also keeps me from putting any native sculpins, flounders, searobins, or spider crabs in it.
I think one of the best things about a native tank is that everything's free and that theres no hassle when you need to get rid of something (such as a very aggressive crab thats killing everything in he tank), since you just have to bring them back to the beach!

Evemtually i wanna get a big tank and collect some Hippocampus erectus from the beach. I find them sometimes.
 
could you post pic's of them so I can give you the proper species information on them?

thanks,

mr.reef24
 
Yeah sure. Pics will be blurry cause ive only got a camera phone at the moment, but ill post them.
 
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