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How many snails and/or shrimp to keep a 2.3 gallon betta aquarium clear?

Posted on September 16, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

I have two new 2.3 gallon wall aquariums with sponge filters and heaters. I will have live java fern, java moss and eco-substrate. I want the tank to remain crystal clear. Other than weekly partial water changes I want to include natural detritus and algae eaters. Since there isn’t much space I am considering an olive nerite snail per tank. Is one nerite snail sufficient enough to clean the glass and detritus? Or should I add a snail and a ghost shrimp (a cherry shrimp is too colorful and I fear the betta will make a meal of it). I even considered 1 or 2 freshwater claims but I’m not sure they’ll take care of the aquarium glass.
Note: There is 1 small male betta per 2.3g tank.

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Feeding live Brine Shrimp?

Posted on September 11, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

I’m currently cycling an Eclipse 5 gallon corner fish tank (freshwater) housing a single juvenile Zebra Danio and an African Dwarf Frog. My equipment includes a bio-wheel filter, hood lamp, air stone, large gravel substrate and a 25-watt Top Fin heater that is currently set at low and produces a consistent water temp. of 77.5 degrees. (sorry if this was all useless info!)

Basically, I’m looking to diversify/enhance said Danio’s & ADF’s current diet of flake food and frozen blood worms. Preferably, I’d like to find a local pet store (Seattle area) that sells ready-to-feed live brine shrimp. Setting up a mini-hatchery in my tiny ass apartment seems like a hassle (let me know of any possible mis-conceptions I may have about this!), although if no better options present themselves, I’ll make it work.

Can anyone share their experience feeding live Brine Shrimp? How often/how much should I feed? How do I make sure the ADF gets his fair share of live Brine Shrimp?

Regards!
I’m sticking with a single Zebra Danio just until the tank has finished cycling.

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Using black sand as a substrate?

Posted on September 1, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

I have a ten gallon tank that currently has some blue standard aqarium gravel. It is freshwater, but I would still like to change the substrate to black sand. So how would I go about that? It is the home to a male betta, 3 cory cats and two ghost shrimp. Would I have to catch them and toss them in a bucket with the tank water and then scrape out all the gravel and add the black sand? Would my tank have to recycle even if I used the same filter and plants/decoration?

Also would it be okay to just get black play-sand and rinse it in a pillow case and then soak it for a week?
Okay, I can get the aqarium sand, but were would I keep my fish for two weeks?
Okay are you sure I don’t have to recylce? I know a lot of people don’t know what they are talking about, but I trust you as you usally give awsome advice. I am going to check around on some various fish forums just in case(:
Ooo I like the idea of having the gravel on the bottom and covering it with sand(: But eventually I might get a khulie loach or two and I think they would be surprised when they went to burrow…

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How many snails and/or shrimp to keep a 2.3 gallon betta aquarium clear?

Posted on July 1, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I have two new 2.3 gallon wall aquariums with sponge filters and heaters. I will have live java fern, java moss and eco-substrate. I want the tank to remain crystal clear. Other than weekly partial water changes I want to include natural detritus and algae eaters. Since there isn’t much space I am considering an olive nerite snail per tank. Is one nerite snail sufficient enough to clean the glass and detritus? Or should I add a snail and a ghost shrimp (a cherry shrimp is too colorful and I fear the betta will make a meal of it). I even considered 1 or 2 freshwater claims but I’m not sure they’ll take care of the aquarium glass.
Note: There is 1 small male betta per 2.3g tank.

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Feeding live Brine Shrimp?

Posted on June 28, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I’m currently cycling an Eclipse 5 gallon corner fish tank (freshwater) housing a single juvenile Zebra Danio and an African Dwarf Frog. My equipment includes a bio-wheel filter, hood lamp, air stone, large gravel substrate and a 25-watt Top Fin heater that is currently set at low and produces a consistent water temp. of 77.5 degrees. (sorry if this was all useless info!)

Basically, I’m looking to diversify/enhance said Danio’s & ADF’s current diet of flake food and frozen blood worms. Preferably, I’d like to find a local pet store (Seattle area) that sells ready-to-feed live brine shrimp. Setting up a mini-hatchery in my tiny ass apartment seems like a hassle (let me know of any possible mis-conceptions I may have about this!), although if no better options present themselves, I’ll make it work.

Can anyone share their experience feeding live Brine Shrimp? How often/how much should I feed? How do I make sure the ADF gets his fair share of live Brine Shrimp?

Regards!
I’m sticking with a single Zebra Danio just until the tank has finished cycling.

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