agsansoo

What are you feeding him ?

Tom

Frozen bloodworms and brineshrimp. With some BBS.
Tom

agsansoo

That's perfect. Any snails in the tank yet ? One or two small one will help keep any algae from taking over the tank.

Tom

No snails yet. I plan on getting some in a couple of days or next week.
Tom

atmmachine816

Congrats, found your other thread now. Sounds like you are headed down the right path of sw and fw. Lucky your parents aren't so strict about fish, I think mine would drive me right back up to the fish store and return the fish if i got one for free. Are you going to add any llive rock or hermit crabs? I can see tom posting on the sw board lots now too, one thing isn't enough, i can see him making his tank more like mine soon, only a matter of time.

Turbo snails would get much too big for the tank, go with cerith, astrea those are the one's off the top of my head. Stay away from the one's with black shells and silver swirls in them, margarita snails, they like cooler temps and are hard to keep alive.

Tom

No live rock or coral, don't have proper lighting for anything except a fish only. What would be a good snail(with a link prefered) to get for that small tank?
Tom

atmmachine816

http://www.marinedepotlive.com/inver...d-animals.html Cerith, nassarius, and astrea are all good snails. I'm not sure of the others. Turbo get large and I've read bumblee bee can be mean but I think with just your it might be ok, but a little research on those would be good. Not sure if anybody else knows of any other snails. what lighting do you have?

Tom

Just a regular incandescent bulb. Why?
Tom

atmmachine816

o because live rock can go under most anything. Not sure of incadescent though, maybe somebody else would know that, though you can buy fluorescent bulbs for incadescent fixtures. Live rock adds places to swim and hide along with decoration and natural filtration and is fun to look at. Not sure if you could or want to get it.

Tom

So LR is good to go in that small of a tank and with that poor of lighting?
Tom

Gozer_1

I'm not sure but I think the lighting may cause some brown algae problems. It seems like I heard it does better in low light. On the other side, my coraline does MUCH better in the shaded areas of my tank.

Tom

I might get some LR(small bits at a time).
Tom

atmmachine816

I have live rock in my 5.5 gallon tank and it does great. But I'm with gozer, not sure on how it would do in incadescent lighting. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/produc...70&pcatid=9870 Maybe you have these around you, the 50/50 one would be good for your tank. Not just for your tank but it will just make your tank look better, just a suggestion not sure if you can find any.

Tom

I think they carry them here. I'll have to check when I go back later today.
Tom

atmmachine816

cool, hope they do, their not very expensive either.

Tom

What are you talking about? I had to pay about $30CDN at the store. I got home and found out it was a little too large, but I think I can make it fit if I take of the little vent and have some of it sticking out of the hood. It is a 5 gallon tall, not the usual long tanks, I'll have to see later.
Tom

atmmachine816

Really, even in stores there only 10$US so that should be 15CDN or a little more. Not sure why your's is so expensive. Hope you can get it to fit, if not can you return it?

Tom

Actually, $10US would be more like $8-9CDN since the exchange rate is good(for us). I can return it if I need too. I think there are incandescent bulbs that I can get that will do the same thing and only be something like $10CDN.
Tom