Bad influence....

dover157 · 06/03/2011, 01:02 PM

I have decided that this place is a bad influence on me

but im loving every min of it. My 20 gal has been up and running for almost 2 months now and everything seems happy and healthy. Rock is starting to cure nicely, water is in check and I even saw my first pods (unk what type) swimming around last night. Now comes the bad influence part, I got the tank just to keep the large hermit crabs alive and so far so good. Then decided that the large crabs could not get to some of the places to clean up where the current would leave the food, so in went 2 little blue leg hermits and 2 nasarius snails. Now im planing to ordering an RO\DI unit next week, been wanting one for drinking water for a while now just using this as an excuse, and planing on getting a couple more peices of LR on tuesday as well (just dont like how what I have now looks) Now you all have me thinking about adding other critters to this little tank lol. I dont plan on adding anything in the near future other than a couple more snails to get the alge off the back glass and rocks. And I know I need to let the tank go at least a few months before I think about adding anything else to the bio load, finding a home for 1 or 2 of the giant crabs may not hurt either. In the long run I would like to have 1 or 2 clowns, a cleaner shirmp and I think a goby / shirimp pair would be awsome. Im just not sure how many of them will become snacks for the crabs lol. Have also been thinking about an HOB fuge since I dont have the room for a sump right now and not sure if putting a sump on a 20 would be worth the effort. In short thanks to you all for helping me with this newest addiction and for all the info on how to do this the right way.

tymon · 06/03/2011, 01:05 PM

sump is always worth it. but i love HOB fuges and in tank fuges give it a try.

06/03/2011, 01:02 PM	#1
dover157 Registered Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Moriarty, New Mexico Posts: 24	Bad influence.... I have decided that this place is a bad influence on me but im loving every min of it. My 20 gal has been up and running for almost 2 months now and everything seems happy and healthy. Rock is starting to cure nicely, water is in check and I even saw my first pods (unk what type) swimming around last night. Now comes the bad influence part, I got the tank just to keep the large hermit crabs alive and so far so good. Then decided that the large crabs could not get to some of the places to clean up where the current would leave the food, so in went 2 little blue leg hermits and 2 nasarius snails. Now im planing to ordering an RO\DI unit next week, been wanting one for drinking water for a while now just using this as an excuse, and planing on getting a couple more peices of LR on tuesday as well (just dont like how what I have now looks) Now you all have me thinking about adding other critters to this little tank lol. I dont plan on adding anything in the near future other than a couple more snails to get the alge off the back glass and rocks. And I know I need to let the tank go at least a few months before I think about adding anything else to the bio load, finding a home for 1 or 2 of the giant crabs may not hurt either. In the long run I would like to have 1 or 2 clowns, a cleaner shirmp and I think a goby / shirimp pair would be awsome. Im just not sure how many of them will become snacks for the crabs lol. Have also been thinking about an HOB fuge since I dont have the room for a sump right now and not sure if putting a sump on a 20 would be worth the effort. In short thanks to you all for helping me with this newest addiction and for all the info on how to do this the right way.

06/03/2011, 01:05 PM	#2
tymon Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 278	sump is always worth it. but i love HOB fuges and in tank fuges give it a try. Last edited by tymon; 06/03/2011 at 01:27 PM.

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