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I prefer the term "heavy handed". :smokey:

To me? Bait. :smokey:

wait a second...... we don't know what size the tank is or what the filtration is. best to have that info before we start giving too many suggestions, eh?

You took the post right out of my fingers.

Completely normal.

Bristlenose it is....thanks for the replies.

I'm looking for recommendations for something that doesn't eat shrimp fry if possible....

I have one in my classroom....so far. Aquabonita donated everything that is in it except the tank, sand, and water.....it's the first thing the kids go to in the morning, and I'm talking high school students here.

I'm just wondering how many fights one of these guys has in him before he's useless for breeding.

I have a technical question for the betta people. What would the quality of these bettas be like? I would assume there wouldn't be any line breeding going on, or do they retire some of these fish to stud? Or are these more along the lines of wild bettas? Possibilities of introducing newer bloodlines to your stock?

Quality difference in appearances?

Welcome!

That is going to be a huge burden on custom officials how are they going to be able to identify all these fish looking through 2 layers of plastic.

Time to start quadruple bagging them.

Most fry will pick at any kind of detritus....crush it small, and they might be grabbing it when you're not looking.....filter feeding, as it were...

Good luck with them.

This thread is almost four years old. Holy necropost, Batman. :boxed:

However, are you looking to record, or just brodcast from a webcam?

Been way too many years since I visited Don's fishroom. He had an amazing collection of different cichlids at the time....looks like he has done the same with discus now. :thumbs:

That would be Tanker, our admin. You could send him a PM.

Ok / I found my sump tank / low and behold I am not sure why I didnt think of it before .... many of you have seen my 60 gallon partioned tank that I use for spixi snails shrimp etc etc ... it has 4 equal 15G partitions with 1 inch openings on the bottom of each pain of glass... so I should be able to modify this when time comes for set up.....

Here is what I need some help with :

What kind or model of an internal protein skimmer would you recomend /

Oh, tough question. There's so many different types of skimmers, and some can be really fickle to tune. I can't answer this for you, so my best advice is check around and see what others are using. The Sea Clones are reffered to as Sea Clowns, for example.

320G My wife would choke you if she found out you tried to plant that idea in my head! LOL

I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to do that! :shock:

I must have somehow left off a zero. :smokey:

http://www.oregonreef.com/sub_tank.htm

Bosshog is correct, and I missed something....3000L/H, not gph. So yes, 800gph should be fine for you.

LOL / yep to big.....

Well....yes and no. Depends on the setup you are making. I have a 1200gph pump in my 55g tank right now - no sump. :shifty:

But I blocked all kinds of live rock in front of it to disperse the force of the flow.....lots of good flow throughout the tank, but not blowing everyone around.

You'd have to be very creative to use that in a normal 4ft or so tank.

Guess you better upgrade to a 320g or something. :thumbs:

but theres a lot of green algae on it.

so i should probably clean it, dry it and then put it in, right?

Yup, that should work. Green algae might me that you'll want to change your lighting, but it might also mean that the P.O. left the lights on more than necessary too.

Now that I can actually see the pics, I'd agree it looks like a crab. And I've seen some walk across a tank when the lights come on and take a piece out of a small fish before it is awake. Something to think about.

Also, concerning the freshwater dip...I've tried to move a mantis shrimp before. Taking the rock out and letting it sit will not work. Dipping it in freshwater will not work. Letting it sit in freshwater for 20 minutes will not work either - I've tried. 2 minutes back in the tank and he was happily peering out at me from his cave in the rock as if nothing had happened and immediately took food when offered.

A trap might be the only way....put the rock and the trap into another small tank if you can.

I'd post on canreef asking about the critters....I have a netbook right now,so you could post a picture of a regal tang and it'd look like a blueberry to me. lol

Crab or a mantis shrimp....you might want to isolate that piece of rock and see if you can get it out of there until you identify it.

Both are cool....both could live in your sump - think of it as a basement custodian. If it is a mantis, don't give it away....you'll kick yourself later for getting rid of such a cool creature.

Sounds like everything is running smoothly. :thumbs:

Copepods are fine....if you have one, you have several, and you'd never get rid of them all anyway. Part of the fun is discovering what pops out on your rock over the next few months...sponges can show up months after you start.

now i'm not a saltie, but i remember reading somewhere that you could put your skimmer in your sump. please correct me if what i read is wrong. but if you can, that would better than seeing it stick up a bit above the tank, eh?

Salt or freshwater, you can put anything you want into a sump. Completely up to you. I actually have a cube tank here drilled in the bottom, with the idea being that the two tubes (inlet/outlet) would be hidden by the liverock and everything down below in a sump (cannister in this case) completely enclosed in the stand.

Something like this one. You can see the water movement at the top, but absolutely no equipment is visible:

You could. There's shouldn't be any harm doing that.