texasmetal
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Originally Posted by MiaHeatLvr
Are you scared about INKING?
Nope. She doesn't startle at all. I can actually touch her and she doesn't flinch a bit. I do have a bucket of SW nearby in case I need to siphon ink out and do a water change though.
It's a 75 gallon tank, and it's not drilled unfortunately. That would be ideal.
There is about 80lbs of rock in the tank. Half of it is live rock, the other half is lace and limestone. There is about 80lbs of sand. The tank has been set up for over a year.
As for equipment, I have a wet/dry, a HOB Penguin 400 for carbon, and a 3 gallon refugium. There are also 2 Maxijet 1200's for flow. All returns are covered with plastic mesh. So far she hasn't messed with the intakes of the powerheads but that could be a problem. The U-tube for the overflow is set inside a circular sponge and fits snug. If water quality becomes an issue I have a protein skimmer. I should have put it in anyway before I plugged everything up because now it's gonna be a pain.
All spaces between the lids, tubes, and returns are fitted with 1 inch thick styrofoam, cut to fit. Then that's sealed off with duct tape. It's not pretty but it does the trick. It's a pain in the butt to get in the tank every single time but I'd rather not find my dogs turned her into a chew toy.
For lights I use two 20 watt Aquaglow fluorescent bulbs, and one 65 watt Odyssea VHO strip.
I kept a dwarf inside this tank several months ago when it was a FOWLR. It was an O. Mercatoris. In order to keep track of him and keep him from killing/being killed I kept him inside a large plastic Critter Keeper. He never escaped it, and would chase the fish at night. Night being the only time it ever came out, and usually much later than I could stay up. I always had to view him under a red light as O. Mercatoris are very secretive and nocturnal, not much fun. I had him for 4 months. I did place him inside a 10 gallon all by himself for about a month, and he wouldn't even come out to hunt no matter how much/how little rock I placed in the tank with him. That's him on my avatar. You might have also seen him in Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine
Are you scared about INKING?
Nope. She doesn't startle at all. I can actually touch her and she doesn't flinch a bit. I do have a bucket of SW nearby in case I need to siphon ink out and do a water change though.
It's a 75 gallon tank, and it's not drilled unfortunately. That would be ideal.
There is about 80lbs of rock in the tank. Half of it is live rock, the other half is lace and limestone. There is about 80lbs of sand. The tank has been set up for over a year.
As for equipment, I have a wet/dry, a HOB Penguin 400 for carbon, and a 3 gallon refugium. There are also 2 Maxijet 1200's for flow. All returns are covered with plastic mesh. So far she hasn't messed with the intakes of the powerheads but that could be a problem. The U-tube for the overflow is set inside a circular sponge and fits snug. If water quality becomes an issue I have a protein skimmer. I should have put it in anyway before I plugged everything up because now it's gonna be a pain.
All spaces between the lids, tubes, and returns are fitted with 1 inch thick styrofoam, cut to fit. Then that's sealed off with duct tape. It's not pretty but it does the trick. It's a pain in the butt to get in the tank every single time but I'd rather not find my dogs turned her into a chew toy.
For lights I use two 20 watt Aquaglow fluorescent bulbs, and one 65 watt Odyssea VHO strip.
I kept a dwarf inside this tank several months ago when it was a FOWLR. It was an O. Mercatoris. In order to keep track of him and keep him from killing/being killed I kept him inside a large plastic Critter Keeper. He never escaped it, and would chase the fish at night. Night being the only time it ever came out, and usually much later than I could stay up. I always had to view him under a red light as O. Mercatoris are very secretive and nocturnal, not much fun. I had him for 4 months. I did place him inside a 10 gallon all by himself for about a month, and he wouldn't even come out to hunt no matter how much/how little rock I placed in the tank with him. That's him on my avatar. You might have also seen him in Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine
