nonstophoops;4736047; said:
Sounds pretty good to me. I'll see what I can find out about anemones in order to keep this one alive.
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Sounds pretty good to me. I'll see what I can find out about anemones in order to keep this one alive.
Not sure on an exact number, but what nonstop describes should work well. This will make it easy to keep the substrate very clean, and avoid a nitrate factory. (Which you may have created by mixing different "grades" of sand.)
FLESHY;4736981; said:
Great... my dad's aquarium substrate is a nitrate factory...
Well, at least it should be fixed soon.
Have any recommendations on the lighting, FLESHY?
Well tell me the exact dimensions of your tank, and what exactly you are trying to do?
They may or may not be, but mixed grade sand compacts easily, and it therefore traps crud easily.
They may or may not be, but mixed grade sand compacts easily, and it therefore traps crud easily.
FLESHY;4738199; said:
It's a standard 55 gallon (48" x 13" x 21"), and the goal is to keep the current inhabitants alive and well. I have no idea as to if he plans on adding coral at some point or just keep his current quirky stock.
I think that the anemone is going to be the main concern with any lighting choice since it probably has the most specific lighting requirements out of all of the organisms in the aquarium (what those requirements are exactly, well, that's another story).
Somewhat good news: I thought that I removed all of the mangrove tree crabs to their own 20 gallon high vivarium a few days ago, but it seems that I missed a few. This is good news because I found them digging under the fake stingray decoration, and they are too small to have been brought home from Florida. I'm guessing that the crabs bred in the aquarium and the two that I found are larvae that survived.
I'm 99% sure that they're the same species of crab because the pattern on their carapace matches that of the other crabs except they are the color of the substrate rather than the same color as the adult crabs which are the color of the dock that I collected them from.
I guess this means that either the aquarium isn't entirely hopeless or these crabs can breed under almost any conditions.
I'm 99% sure that they're the same species of crab because the pattern on their carapace matches that of the other crabs except they are the color of the substrate rather than the same color as the adult crabs which are the color of the dock that I collected them from.
I guess this means that either the aquarium isn't entirely hopeless or these crabs can breed under almost any conditions.
FLESHY;4741112; said:
I'm guessing that MH is metal halide? What could we do as far as fluorescent lights go?
Wiggles92;4741782; said:
Yes it does, T5 and a whole bank of them, otherwise a ton of PC...I dont find that efficient, I would rather run MH, but the final call is obviously up to you.
