Intro and help :)

[Peace River]

In your pictures above that appears to be a thin-lined hermit crab (in picture 3) and it also appears that you have two types of pipefish (possibly a Signathus scovelli in the third picture and possibly a S. floridae in the first picture of post #7 above). More pictures would be necessary to confirm the pipefish, but that will give you a place to start your research for a positive ID. Good luck!

 

[Big G]

@Paul B

Any help for a fellow au natural tank setup?

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

Welcome to R2R and happy 4th!

 

[Rick Mathew]

Welcome to the R2R Family…Great to have you...Very Cool Tank Idea!

…Explore…Learn…Share---Practice Patience

 

[WIReefer]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[SPR1968]

Hi Adam, Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[sp1187]

brings back childhood memories of bluegill, catfish, crayfish and tadpole tanks.
welcome to the show.

 

[SCReef'n]

Welcome to R2R!!!!

 

[mich2599]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Raturner33]

hi ,really cool pics and video,not sure about wood? @Big G any idea? tia,..also are you running skimmer?

No skimmer I’m afraid. I do plan on beefing up filtration and adding uv

 

[Raturner33]

Welcome to Reef2Reef! Are you testing this system? I would definitely check parameters and see where it's at. Ammonia is likely an issue.

I had not been testing until I noticed my fish not doing well. Bought a kit and ammonia was <.25 looked like 0 to me. Wife thought .25. Comparing colors are hard in my opinion lol

 

[Raturner33]

Salinity slightly low. I believe wood may have leached making it acidic (are you keeping log on ph level?)
Algae- Is tank at or near a window? If so, you are getting strong UV plus temperatures changes to high level when direct sun hits tank. What filtration are you using as it appears with all mentioned above, you suffered from low oxygen concentration.

Thank you for the comment. I do think that temperature may have been an issue with the tank. Would temperature issues lead to low oxygen concentration? Fish were definitely gasping, I just don’t know if temp leads to that.

would you think I should increase salinity despite it matching the water I get straight out of river? Where fish came from? Not to mention it was just so sudden. Healthy for 5 weeks, died in 2 days.

just two sponge filters for now. But I plan on adding more now that this happened.

 

[Raturner33]

Welcome to R2R!!! I agree that it is great fun and can be very interesting to collect fish and inverts in the wild. I have done a lot of it in freshwater, brackish, and saltwater. I would strongly caution you to not bring home fish that you aren't able to identify for many reasons, but especially because they could be endangered species. There are many reasons that the fish may not have survived including poor water quality, disease, stress, failed transition to new types of feed, and many more. Certainly some species are able to thrive in home aquaria far better than others. There is an organization called the "North American Native Fishes Association" (NANFA) that has a lot of tips on their website about collecting. Additionally, if you can post pictures of specific fish either water side or in your tank and post them for ID or describe and post pictures and water parameters in the fish disease sub-forum you may be able to get more help there as well. We're glad you're here and wish you the best of luck in your adventure!

Thank you!! I have actually been looking for a resource like that and haven’t come up with anything good. I will definitely check it out. Here is a picture of the guy I added that harassed our needle fish to death. I like the thrill of catching a species I haven’t yet... I tracked this guy down with my net for like 20 minutes haha

 

[Raturner33]

In your pictures above that appears to be a thin-lined hermit crab (in picture 3) and it also appears that you have two types of pipefish (possibly a Signathus scovelli in the third picture and possibly a S. floridae in the first picture of post #7 above). More pictures would be necessary to confirm the pipefish, but that will give you a place to start your research for a positive ID. Good luck!

Awesome. Thanks! I’ll post more

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thank you for the comment. I do think that temperature may have been an issue with the tank. Would temperature issues lead to low oxygen concentration? Fish were definitely gasping, I just don’t know if temp leads to that.

would you think I should increase salinity despite it matching the water I get straight out of river? Where fish came from? Not to mention it was just so sudden. Healthy for 5 weeks, died in 2 days.

just two sponge filters for now. But I plan on adding more now that this happened.

Temperature has effect on oxygen and I ask abut filtration as It is my suspect and likely affecting water quality as sponge cannot provide mechanical filtration, only chemical filtration.
I would suggest even for now, run to Walmart and buy a $15 hang on back power filter. It will provide oxygen, water movement and purification of water.

 

[Raturner33]

In your pictures above that appears to be a thin-lined hermit crab (in picture 3) and it also appears that you have two types of pipefish (possibly a Signathus scovelli in the third picture and possibly a S. floridae in the first picture of post #7 above). More pictures would be necessary to confirm the pipefish, but that will give you a place to start your research for a positive ID. Good luck!

 

[Raturner33]

know what kind of Blenny that is?

 

[Raturner33]

I would guess a goby of some kind

 

[fishguy242]

hi horse is soo..cool!! video 1&3 are not working for me,anybody else??

 

[Peace River]

I can't see the videos (it is sometimes better to post to YouTube and then include the link). The first picture appears to be some type of spider crab and the second picture is a saltwater ghost shrimp.

Breeding saltwater feeder shrimp

So my friend ordered some feeder shrimp online which stated they are SALTWATER SPECIES and not freshwater acclimated ghost shrimp. Their scientific name is Palaemonetes vulgaris. So anyways he gave me about 200 of them and I put them in a forty gal with a huge bunch of macro algae haha. They've...

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