Sacrifice Fishy

Turtle77 · Mar 19, 2012

I'm looking for suggestions on a good cheap sacrifice fish to put in my 8 gallon to make sure they like it before i put in any corals. any suggestions or do any of you guys close by La Vergne have one you just been dying to get ride of?

ToXIc · Mar 19, 2012

Damsels are the devil!

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gmoney243 · Mar 19, 2012

Brackish fish like mollys cost like $1-$2 or something.

Can get at petsmart by target in smyrna.

They also eat all kinds of algae including diatoms and gha

Dowtish · Mar 19, 2012

OR you could just let the tank cycle by adding some ammonia like a piece of shrimp from the grocery store, and let it cycle naturally. Instead of intentionally killing a fish. Or if it lives, it has permanently burned gills from the ammonia in the tank.

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Turtle77 · Mar 19, 2012

actually the tank should already be cycled, got the rock and water and seed sand from smyrnareefer and its all good to go. didnt really technically start from scratch.

the term "sacrifice fish" was more of a "who wants to jump in the pool first" kind of deal.

Dowtish · Mar 19, 2012

do you have test kits to find out? add some food or some sort of ammonia source and see if it breaks it down, and see if any nitrites show up.

Turtle77 · Mar 19, 2012

water already tested. everything is right on.

_sludgefactory · Mar 19, 2012

Small gobies would be nice for a tank like that. Citron goby maybe. If you want to keep your water cooler than normal get a catalina goby, they've got great color. They absolutely need colder than normal temperature though.

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Dowtish · Mar 19, 2012

Well if the parameters are all checking out, then maybe I misunderstood the use of the word 'sacrifice'. I have been up entirely too long today...:sad:

They have quite a few little nano fish available at AC. Like neon gobies, citron gobies, small clowns etc. As long as your params are good, go get something you really like, and not just something to see how it does. Know what I mean?