Mandarin, scooter or sixline
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marvida
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Think about a watchman or one of the shrimp gobies. They are kinda fun to watch & do well in a nano. The main thing is to find a fish which is sedentary, doesn't get too big and eats the same thing your zoos & LPS eats.
Good luck on your 10, they are one of my favorite tanks!
My 10 Gal Nano
Good luck on your 10, they are one of my favorite tanks!
My 10 Gal Nano
overanalyzer
Active Member
Black99l - Welcome!!!
In a 10 gallon I'd look @ a clown goby or a shrimp goby and a pistol shrimp ... possibly another clown depending on what kind you have in there.
Also - if you want a faux Nemo tank you could go with a yellow tail blue damsel and call it Dori ....
Otherwise I think you are out of room. Most Clowns are jumpers and I'd think putting an active fish like a 6-line in there would crowd the tank and be a potential cause of carpet surfing for your clown ....
The reasons why the fish you list won't work:
1. Mandarin
- Mandarins are most likely goign to eat only live food such as copepods
- most folks recommend at least 75-100 pounds of LR in order to provide good breeding ground for pods
- Mandarins being taken from the reefs are selected based upon color brillance. The population is starting to be impacted because the females will only mate with brilliant colored males. So buying of mandarins should be restricted to tanks which can support them in order to stop the conitula purchase and die off ...
2. Scooter
- Same as the first two reasons above.
3. Sixline
- Need rock work to cruise through and feel safe during the day
- eat a mix of pods and prepared food - but seems to thrive when placed in an enviroment continaing pods
- will get too large and need a larger tank to swim in
HTH ....
In a 10 gallon I'd look @ a clown goby or a shrimp goby and a pistol shrimp ... possibly another clown depending on what kind you have in there.
Also - if you want a faux Nemo tank you could go with a yellow tail blue damsel and call it Dori ....
Otherwise I think you are out of room. Most Clowns are jumpers and I'd think putting an active fish like a 6-line in there would crowd the tank and be a potential cause of carpet surfing for your clown ....
The reasons why the fish you list won't work:
1. Mandarin
- Mandarins are most likely goign to eat only live food such as copepods
- most folks recommend at least 75-100 pounds of LR in order to provide good breeding ground for pods
- Mandarins being taken from the reefs are selected based upon color brillance. The population is starting to be impacted because the females will only mate with brilliant colored males. So buying of mandarins should be restricted to tanks which can support them in order to stop the conitula purchase and die off ...
2. Scooter
- Same as the first two reasons above.
3. Sixline
- Need rock work to cruise through and feel safe during the day
- eat a mix of pods and prepared food - but seems to thrive when placed in an enviroment continaing pods
- will get too large and need a larger tank to swim in
HTH ....
black99l
Member
The reason that i asked about those 3 fish is b/c they were suggested to me in the reef forum. i seem to have a bloom of what i believe to be flat worms and are looking for something to eat them. i do feed my tank with frozen brine shrimp every two to three days to suppliment some of the meat eaters. any other suggestions on fish to help out with this problem?
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overanalyzer
Active Member
Whew - flatworms .. hmmm I'd try some of that flatworm exit - but have pre-mixed water ready and do you have an external filter set-up to run carbon?
Kip did an awesome thread on how he did it and I think you biggest issue will be controlling the watervolume while siphoning those suckers out!!
Good luck!
Kip did an awesome thread on how he did it and I think you biggest issue will be controlling the watervolume while siphoning those suckers out!!
Good luck!
ophiura
Active Member
Agreed, the fish mentioned are only suggested to sometimes eat flatworms, and it seems to me that it is not really something to rely on. Some individuals might, but most won't. If it was the only fish in the tank, and you had lots of LR to cruise in and out of, I don't think a sixline would be that poor of a choice simply as a fish stocking question. But definitely not, IMO, with another fish in there. Personally, I would stick with one fish and look into more inverts. I have one damsel in my 15g and he would kill anything else put in there, fishwise.
Also, sixlines are far less picky about diet than mandarins and scooters. Very few mandarins or scooters take to frozen brine at all, and usually it requires training.
Also, sixlines are far less picky about diet than mandarins and scooters. Very few mandarins or scooters take to frozen brine at all, and usually it requires training.
ophiura
Active Member
Nope, you got 'pods! Good beasts. That looks like an amphipod, but the term 'Pod' refers to a number of tiny crustaceans (amphipods, isopods and copepods) that are common and generally beneficial reef critters. The scooter and mandarin live almost exclusively on copepods, which are much smaller than the amphipod shown, but when you eat really small stuff you need loads and loads of it. So they quickly wipe out the pod population of a small tank, and subsequently starve to death.
This is a good beast, good scavenger....a sometimes unnoticed member of the clean up crew.
And surely not something you want to erradicate!
This is a good beast, good scavenger....a sometimes unnoticed member of the clean up crew.
And surely not something you want to erradicate!
lesleybird
Active Member
Originally posted by black99l
well after actually seeing a flat worm at the LFS. i have come to the conclusion, i don't have flat worms. i did manage to get a picture of one. maybe some one can id it for me...
I don't know what kind of pod it is, but I know it is not an amphipod because I used to raise amphipods. Lesley