Occupant Ideas for 24G Nano Cube?
- Thread starter Runner
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Cool, I was just looking at those guys in the store yesterday!
Very nice.
Macclellan, I got a little smirkle out of your "legal" links above.
Mel, I'm hoping to get a Long-Finned or Fairy Wrasse sometime down the road from CR for the 30g build I'm working on. I really need to learn more about those guys as well.
Runner, if you're still interested in a Sixline Wrasse, just be aware that they can sometimes get pretty aggressive.
They are also really bad about stealing food from corals, so if you keep LPS corals that need feeding you need to take that into consideration.
Very nice.
Macclellan, I got a little smirkle out of your "legal" links above.
Mel, I'm hoping to get a Long-Finned or Fairy Wrasse sometime down the road from CR for the 30g build I'm working on. I really need to learn more about those guys as well.
Runner, if you're still interested in a Sixline Wrasse, just be aware that they can sometimes get pretty aggressive.
They are also really bad about stealing food from corals, so if you keep LPS corals that need feeding you need to take that into consideration.
Runner
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I have been disappointed with how little I have seen these guys. Since I put one goby in, I did not see him at all for 24 hours. The other one was out of sight since last night. But this afternoon, I fed the tank some brine shrimp and the AWOL goby came darting out of a hole on the front-left of the tank, grabbed some and went back in. The one that was hanging out on the right side of the tank yesterday peaked out from under the piece of rubble where the shrimp has set up shop -- and the shrimp pushed some rubble by him. So apparently those two have paired up. 
So things are progressing fairly well. I just get tired of looking at a fishless tank most of the time.
So things are progressing fairly well.
I just get tired of looking at a fishless tank most of the time.
EvilMel
is a serious goby fanatic
Scott, give it some time. The fish should end up being buddies again.
They were all over each other and both sharing a pistol shrimp in those tiny cubes at the reef (for about a week and a half) so your tank, though it looks small to you, is probably huge to them. If you want to catch the other watchman and deposit him closer to the other guys, you could always use that bottle method that Paul is using to hold his clowns in one spot.
Don't be disappointed yet! Good grief! Talk about impatient!
I would definitely think about trying to get that other goby over there but the issue may be the size of the pistol shrimp and his inability to dig a large enough burrow for all of them right away.
They were all over each other and both sharing a pistol shrimp in those tiny cubes at the reef (for about a week and a half) so your tank, though it looks small to you, is probably huge to them. If you want to catch the other watchman and deposit him closer to the other guys, you could always use that bottle method that Paul is using to hold his clowns in one spot.
Don't be disappointed yet! Good grief! Talk about impatient!
I would definitely think about trying to get that other goby over there but the issue may be the size of the pistol shrimp and his inability to dig a large enough burrow for all of them right away.
EvilMel
is a serious goby fanatic
If you stick with gobies, you'll be good. Though some gobies get big, I doubt that any would eat any of those guys.
Now you need to check out the firefish and blennies, as well as all of the billions of other tiny gobies you could have. Those tiger gobies completely grew on me down at the reef. They grew FAST too.
I'm hoping we get a green banded goby growout system going so we'll be able to fatten them up and get people interested in them more easily.
Now you need to check out the firefish and blennies, as well as all of the billions of other tiny gobies you could have. Those tiger gobies completely grew on me down at the reef. They grew FAST too.
I'm hoping we get a green banded goby growout system going so we'll be able to fatten them up and get people interested in them more easily.
Runner
Active member
Clownfish are damsels. 
You want violent, trying putting a bunch of rift lake shell-dwellers in a little tank and watch them crowd each other out as they reproduce, mature, and pair up. Damsels are light-weights gram-per-gram by comparison.
The pair was out tonight (after hiding for mostly 3 days) for a while. The shrimp even came up and dug around for building materials. I watched them for a while and fed 'em some mysis shrimp.
Live Aquaria apparently sells yasha pairs with a Randalls shrimp for $150. I got a pretty good deal (even though I have to take a good swallow when looking at my tiny trio).
You want violent, trying putting a bunch of rift lake shell-dwellers in a little tank and watch them crowd each other out as they reproduce, mature, and pair up. Damsels are light-weights gram-per-gram by comparison.The pair was out tonight (after hiding for mostly 3 days) for a while. The shrimp even came up and dug around for building materials. I watched them for a while and fed 'em some mysis shrimp.
Live Aquaria apparently sells yasha pairs with a Randalls shrimp for $150. I got a pretty good deal (even though I have to take a good swallow when looking at my tiny trio).
macclellan
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Shelldwellers are at, or very near, the list of the coolest fish (sorry salt water aficionados). I had a quintuplet of 'Lamprologus' stappersii ("Pearly Ocellatus), arguably the most beautiful shelldwellers, in a 20L. I'd never before seen a 1" fish defend a 6" diameter territory so vociferously, and probably never will again. When cleaning the tank one time, I needed to move a shell, which turned out to be inhabited. It didn't just bite my hand, it attacked me with gusto... scared the crap out of me and I almost fell off my step stool (top tank on a rack of three). I read somewhere that in Lake Tanganyika, someone observed a shellie attacking an alligator that got too close to her fry. I don't usually buy urban legends, but that just has to be true!
I've got some pics of that tank somewheres...
Runner
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Yep, they are cichlids. I had a 10G at work that had Neolamprologus brichardis (now pulcher?). I started with three. Two paired up, killed the 3rd, then had 40 babies a month later. I was careful with those guys and about 6+ months later I had 18 small fish pairing up and staking out territory. I took a bunch of them to the LFS to donate. One of my big fish had died, so the remaining large fish paired up and had more. I finally stopped taking out the fry and left it to survival of the fittest. One of the original fish lived another 5 years and was paired with her grandson. There were about 6~10 fish at any one time spanning about 8 generations. Then one day I came to work and they were all dead -- high ammonia in the water so I suspect a mis-sprayed cleaning agent by the cleaning crew, but I'll never really know. If not for that, I would still have that tank running. Closest thing to self-perpetuating I ever had.
btw, those are amazing photos, Joel. What plants did you have in there? With the crushed coral, my pH was always around 7.6 and I couldn't get anything to grow for very long.
btw, those are amazing photos, Joel. What plants did you have in there? With the crushed coral, my pH was always around 7.6 and I couldn't get anything to grow for very long.
macclellan
New member
Yeah, I think brichardis is now pulcher (and meleagris now stappersii). The whole genus is debatable though...cichlid-forum has them as simply 'Lamprologus'...
Sounds like a cool tank.
The plants in that tank are wisteria, vals, anubias, and najas... all bulletproof pH was about 8. Substrate was a mix of two kinds of aragonite, which is now seeing a second life in our reef tank.
I stopped by the Aquarium last week, which is rare these days. They have several multis in for $9.99/ea. tempted I was...
Sounds like a cool tank.
The plants in that tank are wisteria, vals, anubias, and najas... all bulletproof pH was about 8. Substrate was a mix of two kinds of aragonite, which is now seeing a second life in our reef tank.
I stopped by the Aquarium last week, which is rare these days. They have several multis in for $9.99/ea. tempted I was...
