20g ideas for peaceful tank
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seecrabrun
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Also I actually really want a scooter blenny. I love them, but I'd need to research the crap out of that idea and would talk myself out of it during the process.
seecrabrun
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I am testing a DIY skimmer on my occupied tank.
This tank has a canister filter (which I'm liking, used to be a HOB), it has a HOB refugium and I just bought a bigger one to take up the space the HOB filter used to occupy.
The refugium is as old as the tank, but it houses gracilaria. I'll be adding other algae to it after the upgrade.
What I'm concerned about is the fact I used to have pods, both copepods and amphipods, but don't anymore. I check often and I'll search for a long time.
Neither of my tanks have them anymore, yet at one time they both had a great population.
I need to figure that out, I feel like it's a sign something is wrong.
seecrabrun
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I check everywhere. I'll easily spend an hour in the dark randomly turning the flashlight on to look. I haven't seen even one single pod in more than 2 months.
I'm wondering what else could keep the population down? I thought in my main tank it was my fish as I see them nipping the rocks even though they aren't algae eaters, but considering this tank has basically been fishless since the beginning of January (with a very short stint from chromis) and it still doesn't have pods...
It's concerning me.
I'm wondering what else could keep the population down? I thought in my main tank it was my fish as I see them nipping the rocks even though they aren't algae eaters, but considering this tank has basically been fishless since the beginning of January (with a very short stint from chromis) and it still doesn't have pods...
It's concerning me.
seecrabrun
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The tank was started in July of last year with live sand and dry rock and 1 piece of live rock. It was started in a 10g. Then in January I moved everything to the 20 and after a couple weeks added a little more dry rock.
So it has 1 piece of, from the ocean, live rock
2 pieces of 6 month old rock
And 2 pieces of 1 month old rock
My other tank has 2 dinner plate sized pieces of, from the ocean, live rock and the rest is 7 month old rock
So it has 1 piece of, from the ocean, live rock
2 pieces of 6 month old rock
And 2 pieces of 1 month old rock
My other tank has 2 dinner plate sized pieces of, from the ocean, live rock and the rest is 7 month old rock
seecrabrun
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Thing is that there used to be pods, they've come and gone, so it isn't that it took a bit to start up.
Maybe they weren't getting enough food? I don't have much algae. In fact my larger snails died because I don't have much algae.
Maybe they weren't getting enough food? I don't have much algae. In fact my larger snails died because I don't have much algae.
seecrabrun
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I've been thinking of getting some pods and adding them to my tanks and then seeing how they do.
seecrabrun
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Would you just get copepods, or would you get the mix that has amphipods?
Any point in getting isopods?
Any point in getting isopods?