New Setup Tank

[mpderksen]

I would humbly suggest you spend a LOT of time reading before you buy anything. Nothing I have read makes sense. It you truly want Sea Monkeys (which are food to about everything else in this hobby), you could set up a nano with a single, small powerhead. You won't have chemical issues because there is almost no waste product. Even changing the water will suck up your buddies.

 

[shifty51008]

I can post pics of my setup but its nothing real exciting. Its just a brine shrimp hatchery that you can buy for around 7.00 from any local pet store. The brine shrimp i have i got from brineshrimpdirect.com

 

[shifty51008]

There is nothing wrong with raising them to adulthood and watching them have babies. I used to do it when i was younger in a 5 gal tank, i would just add a little phyto and put the tank in the sunlight, the sunlight kept the phyto growig for the shrimp to eat. The biggest problem with keeping them is cleaning the tank fairly often as shrimp molt a lot of times and can foul the water.

 

[shifty51008]

here is my easy shrimp setup


and this is the only reason I hatch them, to feed these lil guys

 

[duperdave]

that looks like a pretty simple setup to build , hey anything to help you save money on food right. what do you feed the shrimp.I'm pretty new to all this.

 

[shifty51008]

i don't feed the shrimp anything, they become fish food right after they hatch from their eggs so they still have their yolk sack to eat till then.

 

[BrianB421]

I hope this is real... I want to see a tank build.

 

[shifty51008]

I hope this is real... I want to see a tank build.

In reality it cant be real, brine shrimp dont swim well in water so if he plans on putting 4 powerheads and an overflow on the tank the shrimp wont stand a chance of surviving

 

[pace507]

Hello All,

It was an interesting year, but things did not go very well, the water kept clouding up and I did not see anything. I think they kept getting chopped up by the pumps or whatever. I was really hoping this would work. My daughter was really interested in watching them grow and float around.

I got frustrated with it and abandoned the idea. A friend of mine was getting out of saltwater and he gave me a real nice fish, when I looked it up it was a Naso Tang? Really cool fish, he likes the flow alot. Right now I have the basic setup above, I used some rocks from petsmart and a few fake plants. Did find some cool decorations on clearence at petsmart also.No live rock yet. We saw a fish at local fish store, it was some chinese named and looking fish, they sold me on. Very pretty some kind of goby. I will have to take a picture of it for identification.

Well all I will try to figure out how to upload a picture from my cell phone (I still have a flip phone so hopefully I can figure out how to save it).

Thanks for all the info I took your advice but in the end it just didnt work out. We plan on adding some more fish to the tank, we really like the yellow tangs and maybe clown fish.

Talk to you later.