Upgrading My Mangrove Tank

[penguinpimp1990]

i have a 40 gallon mangrove with some fiddlers and a few platys. I want to upgrade to something like a 100 gallon tank, with the fiddlers, platys, knight goby, bbg's, and glassfish and figure 8. (dont worry sounds like a lot of fish for a mangrove but i managed a way to get a lot of water in he tank, while having plenty of land with the help of my aquasacping book) this will eliminate my ten gallon for the 8, the 15 gallon tank for the bbgs, and the ten planted for the glassfish. My question is are there any mudskippers small enough to not eat the bbg's, someone told me theres a dwarf african species but it probally will still eat the gobies. thanks

 

[egoz]

i have a 40 gallon mangrove with some fiddlers and a few platys. I want to upgrade to something like a 100 gallon tank, with the fiddlers, platys, knight goby, bbg's, and glassfish and figure 8. (dont worry sounds like a lot of fish for a mangrove but i managed a way to get a lot of water in he tank, while having plenty of land with the help of my aquasacping book) ...

Any chance you can post some pictures of your new tank ? Your tank sounds very cool.

We have a 10 gallon brackish tank with ten red american mangroves and six bumblebee gobies. I just recently purchased the mangroves. After a week of "aclimating" them (read: procrastinating) most were planted in our brackish tank, and the remaining few went into our tank of daphnia (we throw our suctioned-up freshwater waste into this tank, which has tons of nutrients for the plants and decomposed organic debris for the dephnia).

We've thought of getting mudskippers, and the idea of somehow being able to section-off the tank to make it cohabitable with fiddlers (very neat creatures), sounds interesting.

 

[Dave Legacy]

I'd expect the bbgs to be lunch for any mudskippers. Even small ones have pretty large mouths and they're mean!

How are you building up your land? Eggcrate and styrofoam? I need to do this too, about 15" mounds of sand but obviously just pouring sand is a horrible idea in terms of long term and anaerobotic gas pockets.

 

[penguinpimp1990]

im sorry this is quite an old post and i eventually decided not to get the 100 gallon setup, i rather went for a 29 gallon tank because i thought enough is enough with all the tanks that i have.............. but now i really wished i hadnt spent the $ because i really want it now!