Rolling Some Ideas Around In My Head...

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[fishwatcher]

What is this Nano reef I'm hearing so much about?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

What is this Nano reef I'm hearing so much about?

Basically a tiny marine reef tank .

 

[sic0198]

I'd like to get three white-cheek gobys.

 

[cjohnston]

u like nano reefs then?

 

[fishwatcher]

I don't think I want to try that... from what I've read it's just as expensive and much easier to screw-up that a large marine tank. So I guess it narrows it down to at least a fresh-if-any-water kind of thing.
As for cold-water fish, is there anything other than WCMM that would fit?

 

[J4MES]

Sticklebacks.

J4MES

 

[Breeze7050]

You could still consider brackish! It's not near as expensive as full marine and just as fun! On the other hand...You may want to try aquabid or ebay for some of the cooler shrimp and snails if you go that route. I believe there is a cooler temp. loach - I want to say the weather loach - please don't quote me on that. I will see if I can find out which it is.

 

[fishwatcher]

From what I've seen there are only a handful of fish that could go in both brackish and a 10-gal. Mollies, some kind of gobie (which my lfs doesn't carry) and I can't think of the other thing I found. Do you know of any more?
Thanks!

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I don't think I want to try that... from what I've read it's just as expensive and much easier to screw-up that a large marine tank. So I guess it narrows it down to at least a fresh-if-any-water kind of thing.
As for cold-water fish, is there anything other than WCMM that would fit?

You could try a couple of hillstream loaches but they are sub-tropical fish (19-23 degrees) and not coldwater. The main difficulty with these fish though is they need very powerful filtration and highly oxygenated water to create a river tank type set up, and need a more or less constant supply of algae (they don't really take well to prepared foods, fresh algae is the best and one of the only foods they'll take) and do much better in mature tank set ups (6months mature+ is good).
However, they do make very charming and unique looking little fish and make a good breeding project if you are interested in that kind of thing too, so if you are willing to devote the time and money to them in creating an ideal set up they make very good pets . If you don't want to have algae in the tank growing in there for them all the time, you can grow it in a separate tank or tub on some nice rounded rocks for them to eat off .

 

[Fishalicious]

Bumblebee Goby's are fantastic and really really fun to watch...if you are going down the Brakish route

Or you could keep a harem of 'different' fish such as Dwarf Croaking Gourami (get ready for some noise) or the beautiful Dario dario (Badis bengalensis) with 1 male and 2 females and create a whole asian look in your tank. You could even keep a small shoal of Corydoras (hasborus, hastatus or pygmy) with these.

If none of them take your fancy the dwarf puffers are very popular at the moment but then the smallest type: Carinotetraodon travancoricus you could keep 4 of these...also extremely entertaining and very intelligent fish

Hope some of the above help

Xxx Fishalicious xxX

 

[luque]

know ones mentioned frogs

 

[fishwatcher]

I was just thinking about doing a biotope around the dwarf frogs... what other fish/plants are from the same area they are?

 

[mlawson]

I think south american leaf fish.