I'd look at second hand or auction sites, you can pick up incredible deals.
It realy helps to get the tank up and stable a few days before adding fish.
This allows time for bacteria to grow on surfaces. The in turn will turn toxic wastes from fish into nutrients for plants.
Copepods are great, that's a good sign! You could even get a mandarin Dragonette which mostly exclusively eat pods.
Great fish!
Just recieved my package of Killifish eggs from Thailand, and this is AFTER they contacted me and said they would be late because of flooding...Very solid company, they were quick to keep me updated on the status of my package, and here it is!!
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Came with a nice little letter in English, describing the hatching methods of both the Killifish eggs and the brine shrimp eggs...Came with the sealed foil fack that feels like it contains a little tiny tupperware container inside, that contains the fish eggs along with some peat moss...Also came with a little tiny spoon, an eye dropper, and 20,000(i'm sure they counted them) brine shrimp eggs...I forget what I paid exactly, but I don't think it was more than 20 bucks including shipping...not too shabby! My hatch date is December 25th, too...lol...Do not open till Christmas! haha
Make sure wait till you can see their eyes before hatching - chances are it will be a week or two after their labeled hatch date. You will also need more brine shrimp eggs after the first or second hatching and make sure to read up on infusoria (basically rotten spinach) as several of the species are to tiny to eat baby brine shrimp. I bought a tiny can of brine shrimp eggs which is more than I'll ever use in a life time - let me know if you want me to mail a dime bag or two of them your way - as you can see not to hard to mail em in a standard envelope.
Yeah, but if I get a mandarin, it'll deplete the copepods in the tank faster than then they can reproduce. 3 gallons is too small for a mandarin, unlesws they eat frozen food...Might try a red scooter blenny(starry gragonet), because I hear they take to frozen food much easier...Excited about possibly getting my first piece of coral today!
Oh shit 3 gallons ya too small. Nice candycane, any thoughts on a goby/pistol shrimp combo?
@ Gastanker, Acrylic aquariums give your aquatic life beautiful look but scratch so easy. Enjoy & remember to post pics!![]()