Greetings to all.
I am certainly not at the sophistication level that I am sure most of you are. I am in the DFW area and I am in my 5th month of slowly bringing up my first salt water tank. I found a really good shop near me and they are all salt water geniuses. LOL, compared to me they are.
I tend to like different approaches and experimentation. When I was running my 20g fresh water tank
I put a minnow trap in the 3 acre lake behind me and started with a population of baby perch. They were great but one grew fast and became very aggressive. He went back into the lake. I also had a live berth in my tank and I was confused as t0 why my 2 silver catfish became 3.
My current salt water tank is only 20g. I am using it to test my capabilities of keeping things alive.
So far it has worked. I like to try different approaches so I brought my own live sand back from under
the emerald waters off a beach in Destin. Prettiest sand you will ever see, but it has the consistency of flour. I will be curing a 40g tank to switch over to in the next 30 days. I have man made live rock curing in my current 20g and will move some of the sand from the 20g tank as well so it should cure quickly I have pushed the envelope and currently have one 1 Blenny cleaning the sand along with about five hermit crabs. I have 1 coral banded shrimp. 3 Blue yellow tail Damsels, 2 Silver Damsels, 2 emerald crabs, a few snails, one Chocolate Chip starfish and added 2 weeks ago 2 very small clown fish.
So far I have only experienced 3 casualties. My starfish had an appetite for my Hawaiian Feather duster. I spoke rather harshly to it and don't expect any more bad behavior.
As I was stacking rocks to cure in the current tank. one fell to the sand. I never saw my first Blenny after that rock fell. I lost A few small hermit crabs before my replacement shells got in the tank.
From this forum I want to find out what invertebrates are easy and fun and won't quickly outgrow a 40g tank.
I also have zero knowledge on sexing fish.
I plan to keep an isolation tank running for possible breeding and for any new fish to acclimate.
Thanks for this opportunity and your feedback.
I am certainly not at the sophistication level that I am sure most of you are. I am in the DFW area and I am in my 5th month of slowly bringing up my first salt water tank. I found a really good shop near me and they are all salt water geniuses. LOL, compared to me they are.
I tend to like different approaches and experimentation. When I was running my 20g fresh water tank
I put a minnow trap in the 3 acre lake behind me and started with a population of baby perch. They were great but one grew fast and became very aggressive. He went back into the lake. I also had a live berth in my tank and I was confused as t0 why my 2 silver catfish became 3.
My current salt water tank is only 20g. I am using it to test my capabilities of keeping things alive.
So far it has worked. I like to try different approaches so I brought my own live sand back from under
the emerald waters off a beach in Destin. Prettiest sand you will ever see, but it has the consistency of flour. I will be curing a 40g tank to switch over to in the next 30 days. I have man made live rock curing in my current 20g and will move some of the sand from the 20g tank as well so it should cure quickly I have pushed the envelope and currently have one 1 Blenny cleaning the sand along with about five hermit crabs. I have 1 coral banded shrimp. 3 Blue yellow tail Damsels, 2 Silver Damsels, 2 emerald crabs, a few snails, one Chocolate Chip starfish and added 2 weeks ago 2 very small clown fish.
So far I have only experienced 3 casualties. My starfish had an appetite for my Hawaiian Feather duster. I spoke rather harshly to it and don't expect any more bad behavior.
As I was stacking rocks to cure in the current tank. one fell to the sand. I never saw my first Blenny after that rock fell. I lost A few small hermit crabs before my replacement shells got in the tank.
From this forum I want to find out what invertebrates are easy and fun and won't quickly outgrow a 40g tank.
I also have zero knowledge on sexing fish.
I plan to keep an isolation tank running for possible breeding and for any new fish to acclimate.
Thanks for this opportunity and your feedback.
