Originally Posted by swlover
Hi I have the dwarves, yes they breed freely and 20 gallon is pretty big for them. Because they only eat live brine shrimp, the food would get lost or sucked up the filter...which leads me to another problem about dwarves, they will go right up the filter. You need to get a filter sock and rubber band it around any openings in the intake. You can do it, but just get about 10 or so, after a while they will know when you feed them and if you can get a turkey baster even better, that way you can squirt the food down in the bottom of the tank and they will learn when it's feeding time. You need to get a brine shrimp hatchery, these you can get on the auction site. They will start to pick at other things, mine pick at frozen foods that I feed my hermits. NO CORALS or BRITTLESTARS. Corals that sting are a no no for seahorses and brittles will eat the young seahorses. Good tank mates for dwarves are snails, hermits, mushrooms, sponges and anything that they can hang onto without being stung. Hope this helps.
yes thank you that helps alot...it is actually YOUR dawrves that made me want to get them. I saw some of your pictures somewhere on these forums...as far as a sock to go over the intake...right now i cut a peice of plastic screen material (like on screen doors) and cemented it onto the intake of the filter...this should be good. would any slow moving fish be ok? so far i think im only going to get like 20 or so snails, like 5 hermits, of course ill throw in some mushroom, but as far as hitching posts...im going to get those twigs like you have...but like i said im no expert...im mainly just copying yours haha
