My pet turtle seems to really enjoy fried lobsters and shrimps and totally shuns away from anything green and/or leafy. Is a seafood diet appropriate for a turtle? I don’t wanna inadvertently kill the poor thing.
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Can you feed turtles, seafood?
My pet turtle seems to really enjoy fried lobsters and shrimps and totally shuns away from anything green and/or leafy. Is a seafood diet appropriate for a turtle? I don’t wanna inadvertently kill the poor thing.
Question about freshwater invertebrates?
I previously tried to add ghost shrimp to my tank and I haven’t seen them at all since then, so I’m assuming they have been eaten. With that in mind, I wonder, if I were to consider a freshwater snail or even a clam, would the same thing probably happen to them?
I currently have zebra danios, dwarf gourami, black skirt tetra, rasboras, and corys in the tank.
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Fish and Math- Stocking my 10 gallon tank with the Fibonacci Sequence?
Ok, If you think this is the weirdest, nerdiest thing in the world, dont bother, but if you have experience stocking a 10 gallon freshwater tank, and can add and subtract, help me out here.
I’d like to stock my 10 Gallon tank with a community that would fit within the Fibonacci Sequence. The sequence goes as such 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,….. The pattern (in case you can’t see it) is that you add the a and b to get c, b and c to get d, and so on (0+1=1, 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5, etc).
That said, I’d like to stock my tank with a the number of each species corresponding to the Fibonacci numbers (1 of fish a, 1 of fish b, 2 of fish c, 3 of fish d etc.), but I dont want to overstock my tank.
Sound tricky enough?
Here’s what I’m thinking so far:
1 Mystery Snail
1 Algae Shrimp
2 Panda Corys
3 Bronze Corys
5 Neon Tetras
Is this overstocked? Any community problems with these fish I have not considered? Any other suggestion for stocking should be in line with the Fibonacci #’s please.
I dont buy into the inch per gallon thing. No way.
And the tank has a 50 watt heater, double rated filter (used to have goldfish in here) and is well on it’s way to cycling, fishless of course (ammonia just spiked), which is why i’m thinking about how to stock now, waiting for the nitrites and then nitrates. I want to know what to get when It’s cycled.
Thanks Cherri, that’s good to think about.
Thanks for the help, I’m going to keep it open for a few more days to see any other opinions.
I’m kindof limited on selection by my LFS, but it’s something I’m choosing to do, because I REFUSE to go to petco, and I love the people at this shop and how they treat their fish. They make you bring in a water sample, and they know what size tanks folks have, they practially make you do a homecheck 
. The prices are a little higher than your average petshop, but I’ve never got a sick fish from them, and all the old Chinese men buy their goldfish there. I trust them, so it’s worth a slightly limited selection.
what is the best thing to do for a beginner fish owner?
hey everybody. just got a 10 gallon fish tank a couple weeks ago. i have 5 different types of community fishes. 2 shrimps and 1 bottom feeder. i’m sorry i don’t know their scientific names. anyway i have a heater, and a whisper filter. i clean the tank almost every week which is a pain in the ass because i’m a working student. i wanted to know what else i can do to keep them cleaner. i’ve fed them less than i did at first. i totally clean the whole tank. i took out most of my granite just coz it’s so hard to clean them as well. i have a real shrimp bamboo, 1 fake short plant and 2 coliseum ruins as decor. they’re real tiny though. i’m thinking of getting one of those auto feeders coz i’ll be on leave for more than a week. i’m not sure which is best. can you guys advice what else can i do? and what else my tank needs? thanks so much!
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