kevine6678
Member
I work at a pet shop that sells salt water fish and love actually getting paid to do what I love and that it play with fish tanks. Anyhow, I have a couple questions that I am absolutley puzzled by about some stuff at the store I work at.
1) We always get manderin gobies in. I know that they are only supposed to eat copepods but with every single one that we have ever got in I have had no problem getting them to eat frozen food and/or pellets. Why is this? Can they survive off of these foods?
2) We have a couple 20 gal long tanks with wet/dry filter systems hooked up to them. These tanks are where we keep nothing but hundreds of the hermit crabs and snails that we have. These tanks are always spotless (we never even have to clean them) and all that we feed to them is romain lettice every so often which will be completley devoured withing a couple hours. There are no fish in these tanks. When I test the tanks the nitrate is always very high. Why would this be? I thought that cleaners don't add to the "bio load" but when there's that many does that change things?
Thanks!
1) We always get manderin gobies in. I know that they are only supposed to eat copepods but with every single one that we have ever got in I have had no problem getting them to eat frozen food and/or pellets. Why is this? Can they survive off of these foods?
2) We have a couple 20 gal long tanks with wet/dry filter systems hooked up to them. These tanks are where we keep nothing but hundreds of the hermit crabs and snails that we have. These tanks are always spotless (we never even have to clean them) and all that we feed to them is romain lettice every so often which will be completley devoured withing a couple hours. There are no fish in these tanks. When I test the tanks the nitrate is always very high. Why would this be? I thought that cleaners don't add to the "bio load" but when there's that many does that change things?
Thanks!