Stocking for a 700ml...(with 600ml sump)

PeterLL · Jan 10, 2019

For this tank, anyone got ideas? Thinking currently just a baby stomatella, by does anyone have any other ideas? Seen them with sexy shrimp online, but too small or what do you think? Also since it’s size, Cool smaller hitchhikers are 100% considered, even non reef safe or aggressive ones. Maybe a small single hermit?

User · Jan 10, 2019

Lol, I was just about to point out your typo and make a wisecrack about it being perfect for some sexy shrimp and a snail... but you were serious, lol

PeterLL · Jan 10, 2019

Wait what do you mean? I said I saw them online stocked with sexy shrimp and then asked the community what they think about it. I’ve never kept them, so I don’t have experience other than knowing they’re small.
Also it’s heated and has a really good filter so only limited by space.

User · Jan 10, 2019

I thought you meant a 700 g tank... don’t often see a combined total volume less than a gallon, lol

A couple sexy shrimp might work out perfect in there. Maybe a biggish trochus snail or a Mexican turbo, too

PeterLL · Jan 10, 2019

neilp2006 said:
I thought you meant a 600 g tank... don’t often see a combined total volume less than a gallon, lol

Ooohhh right lol, sorry for a slightly hostile reply then. Yup it’s only about 1.3l in total, but fully sunped and heated, and a pretty cool kit, only about 35usd total. Here’s an example of the set up that showed me the sexy shrimp aswell : https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOLuSUi1D6/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=13giwrfj1hbxw

User · Jan 10, 2019

I’m not sure they are sexy shrimp... look to be too big and they lack the spots they have. Fire shrimp with the red body and long white feelers.

Sexy shrimp are much smaller- in the pic, those are sos heads, so that is a good scale- should be ok in that size as long as you keep parameters stable. Inverts don’t like swings if any kind

PeterLL · Jan 10, 2019

Yeah don’t worry the fire shrimp is too big imo for it, you can see a sexy shrimp in the bottom left of the tank if you look, kinda hard to see him at first.
I should be able to keep it stable, there’s almost no evap due to the lid, and can easily do large water changes via my moon tank. Cheers

xiaoxiy · Jan 10, 2019

Where’d you get that kit??!

PeterLL · Jan 10, 2019

Heres a copy and paste reply from my answer on aother forum:
So I thought I'd reply to this in the thread in case anyone else was interested
The website i used is the ebay version of China more or less, but not actually ebay. This also means that the shop owners aren't concerned about international selling. Most of them, including this shop, doesn't ship abroad. I had to go through a shopping agent, again dont know If I can name them, in order to buy them. Basically, you pay a Chinese company, give them a link and then they buy the item, store it in their warehouse until you want them to ship it out to you. The other big cost of buying is shipping from the warehouse to here, basically as your weight of items (you can combine multiple items stored in their warehouse) the cost per kg comes down. So since I already had a bunch of other stuff the shipping was only around £10 for this item, but if I bought it alone it would be more like £25, and youve also got the agent fees to worry about. It still came cheaper thatn if you bought them retail from here (saved about 40 pound) So if you want more i'll let you know through PM's the companies and stuff I used. Or maybe I'll bulk buy some and sell them 50 pound a piece lol. There are other ways to buy them, just google 'mini complete tank'
https://www.ultimatereef.net/threads/700ml-sumped-display.846085/#post-7983541 <- the tank thrad

PeterLL · Jan 10, 2019

How do you guys think something like rivershrimp would cope? Buy a bag, select a lucky few and throw the rest in the main. Feed a pellet every once in a while?
I’m thinking that and maybe some Copepoda, a phi pods and my sis shrimp aswell. Nothing to eat them so they should be alright no, maybe even start a small colony?