Hello All!
Q: What inhabitants should I select for a 5G minibow?
The Setup:
I've got a 5G minibow, and I'm using a 20 Watt 50/50.
The Content:
4+ lbs of live rock, some small (dime/quarter size) feather dusters, about a dozen or so mushrooms, and a healthy serving of coraline algae.
The History:
The tank used to have a mantis shrimp. When it died, I picked up a couple blue legs and snails, which seem to have died over the course of the past year. I'm not sure why. I can count the number of water changes that this tank has received on one hand (maybe that's why? haha. Everything else seems to be living on just fine), and this is not likely to change in the future.
Considerations:
I've currently got some bubble algae, and hair algae growing. I'd like to eliminate this. I've got bristle worms, which while I understand are awesome for the eco-system, they are totally ugly! They also hang out in the algae, which means I'm not able to pluck it. There has been no predator in the tank for over a year, which means that not only do they hang out during the day, but they are all over the freakin' place! = )
I'm looking for inhabitants that are:
1) Self-sustaining
2) Not going to eat each other, or resort to eating the shrooms
3) Require no fancy feeding techniques (harlequins are damn cool, but I don't have the heart to cut up/sacrifice starfish). I'm cool with a weekly feed though.
4) Going to scare the bristle worms
5) Going to solve the algae problem
You guys are totally the experts, so I thought I'd ask you all rather than relying completely on the fish store dudes = )
Q: What inhabitants should I select for a 5G minibow?
The Setup:
I've got a 5G minibow, and I'm using a 20 Watt 50/50.
The Content:
4+ lbs of live rock, some small (dime/quarter size) feather dusters, about a dozen or so mushrooms, and a healthy serving of coraline algae.
The History:
The tank used to have a mantis shrimp. When it died, I picked up a couple blue legs and snails, which seem to have died over the course of the past year. I'm not sure why. I can count the number of water changes that this tank has received on one hand (maybe that's why? haha. Everything else seems to be living on just fine), and this is not likely to change in the future.
Considerations:
I've currently got some bubble algae, and hair algae growing. I'd like to eliminate this. I've got bristle worms, which while I understand are awesome for the eco-system, they are totally ugly! They also hang out in the algae, which means I'm not able to pluck it. There has been no predator in the tank for over a year, which means that not only do they hang out during the day, but they are all over the freakin' place! = )
I'm looking for inhabitants that are:
1) Self-sustaining
2) Not going to eat each other, or resort to eating the shrooms
3) Require no fancy feeding techniques (harlequins are damn cool, but I don't have the heart to cut up/sacrifice starfish). I'm cool with a weekly feed though.
4) Going to scare the bristle worms
5) Going to solve the algae problem
You guys are totally the experts, so I thought I'd ask you all rather than relying completely on the fish store dudes = )