Fish for nano?
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garychef1
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Originally Posted by julie853
I would say no on fish.
It's just to small to house a fish.
You can easily have a fish in there. I saw a beautiful 2 gal pico tank with a yellow clown goby in it loaded with coral frags, a seahorse, and a skunk shrimp. It is facintaing what you can do with 3 gallons. any type of goby will do and maybe (research this) you can even put in a clown.
I would say no on fish.
It's just to small to house a fish.
You can easily have a fish in there. I saw a beautiful 2 gal pico tank with a yellow clown goby in it loaded with coral frags, a seahorse, and a skunk shrimp. It is facintaing what you can do with 3 gallons. any type of goby will do and maybe (research this) you can even put in a clown.
bjoe23
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Originally Posted by Garychef1
You can easily have a fish in there. I saw a beautiful 2 gal pico tank with a yellow clown goby in it loaded with coral frags, a seahorse, and a skunk shrimp. It is facintaing what you can do with 3 gallons. any type of goby will do and maybe (research this) you can even put in a clown.
fish and a seahorse in a 2 gallon wow!
can u send me that link possibly?
and maybe a clown? life is good!
You can easily have a fish in there. I saw a beautiful 2 gal pico tank with a yellow clown goby in it loaded with coral frags, a seahorse, and a skunk shrimp. It is facintaing what you can do with 3 gallons. any type of goby will do and maybe (research this) you can even put in a clown.
fish and a seahorse in a 2 gallon wow!
can u send me that link possibly?
and maybe a clown? life is good!
clay12340
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Life probably isn't good for clown stuck in 3 gallons of water. The dwarf seahorse isn't a bad choice, but they are annoying to feed. Dwarf seahorses move very little, but arn't really worth the trouble of hatching brine shrimp every day IMO.
Saying any type of goby would be workable is simply not true. Mandarins are gobies, engineer gobies get over a foot long, diamond gobies get to be 5", court jesters need a supply of pods although less than a mandarin, nearly every goby out there is going to live a very short life in a 3 gallon tank.
There are a very small handful of gobies that "might" be workable in a 3 gallon. Some clown gobies, Catalinas(if you can keep them cold), Red-headed gobies, and I think Trimma gobies might stay small enough. Even those would be hard to keep I'd think. My 3 gallon tank shifts a lot in water chemistry from one day to the next.
A successful tank isn't one that was pretty at the pet shop. It is one that can sustain the livestock in it comfortably. You can put anything you want in a 3 gallon. You are just condemning it to a short and unpleasant life if it isn't appropriate. So if you plan to just replace the losses at least buy tank bred fish. That way you aren't wasting wild caught fish.
Saying any type of goby would be workable is simply not true. Mandarins are gobies, engineer gobies get over a foot long, diamond gobies get to be 5", court jesters need a supply of pods although less than a mandarin, nearly every goby out there is going to live a very short life in a 3 gallon tank.
There are a very small handful of gobies that "might" be workable in a 3 gallon. Some clown gobies, Catalinas(if you can keep them cold), Red-headed gobies, and I think Trimma gobies might stay small enough. Even those would be hard to keep I'd think. My 3 gallon tank shifts a lot in water chemistry from one day to the next.
A successful tank isn't one that was pretty at the pet shop. It is one that can sustain the livestock in it comfortably. You can put anything you want in a 3 gallon. You are just condemning it to a short and unpleasant life if it isn't appropriate. So if you plan to just replace the losses at least buy tank bred fish. That way you aren't wasting wild caught fish.
coral keeper
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I posted a thread if i can but a clown fish in a 8 gallon bio cube they said MAYBE a false peric, and so i dont thingk ANY kind of fish should be kept in a 3 gallon tank. False perics are the smallest kind of clown fish that get up to 3.7 inches, so i think a clown fish should NOT go in a 3 gallon tank.
Thats just my 2 cents.
Thats just my 2 cents.
yerboy
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Originally Posted by Clay12340
Life probably isn't good for clown stuck in 3 gallons of water. The dwarf seahorse isn't a bad choice, but they are annoying to feed. Dwarf seahorses move very little, but arn't really worth the trouble of hatching brine shrimp every day IMO.
Saying any type of goby would be workable is simply not true. Mandarins are gobies, engineer gobies get over a foot long, diamond gobies get to be 5", court jesters need a supply of pods although less than a mandarin, nearly every goby out there is going to live a very short life in a 3 gallon tank.
There are a very small handful of gobies that "might" be workable in a 3 gallon. Some clown gobies, Catalinas(if you can keep them cold), Red-headed gobies, and I think Trimma gobies might stay small enough. Even those would be hard to keep I'd think. My 3 gallon tank shifts a lot in water chemistry from one day to the next.
A successful tank isn't one that was pretty at the pet shop. It is one that can sustain the livestock in it comfortably. You can put anything you want in a 3 gallon. You are just condemning it to a short and unpleasant life if it isn't appropriate. So if you plan to just replace the losses at least buy tank bred fish. That way you aren't wasting wild caught fish.
Mandarins are not gobys.
And i dont see anywhere in this thread where anyone said any goby would work.
Life probably isn't good for clown stuck in 3 gallons of water. The dwarf seahorse isn't a bad choice, but they are annoying to feed. Dwarf seahorses move very little, but arn't really worth the trouble of hatching brine shrimp every day IMO.
Saying any type of goby would be workable is simply not true. Mandarins are gobies, engineer gobies get over a foot long, diamond gobies get to be 5", court jesters need a supply of pods although less than a mandarin, nearly every goby out there is going to live a very short life in a 3 gallon tank.
There are a very small handful of gobies that "might" be workable in a 3 gallon. Some clown gobies, Catalinas(if you can keep them cold), Red-headed gobies, and I think Trimma gobies might stay small enough. Even those would be hard to keep I'd think. My 3 gallon tank shifts a lot in water chemistry from one day to the next.
A successful tank isn't one that was pretty at the pet shop. It is one that can sustain the livestock in it comfortably. You can put anything you want in a 3 gallon. You are just condemning it to a short and unpleasant life if it isn't appropriate. So if you plan to just replace the losses at least buy tank bred fish. That way you aren't wasting wild caught fish.
Mandarins are not gobys.
And i dont see anywhere in this thread where anyone said any goby would work.
clay12340
Member
Originally Posted by Garychef1
You can easily have a fish in there. I saw a beautiful 2 gal pico tank with a yellow clown goby in it loaded with coral frags, a seahorse, and a skunk shrimp. It is facintaing what you can do with 3 gallons. any type of goby will do and maybe (research this) you can even put in a clown.
That is the post that said any goby. While mandarins are technically dragonets, it is very common to see them sold as a mandarin goby. It seemed easier to toss them in that pile for the purpose of that post.
