Need Ideas For College Tank.
#1 Guest_damias_*
Posted 02 July 2012 - 07:26 PM
1. what are some good set up(fish, plants, inverts.) ideas for a 10gal tank(as this is the largest my college allows). and
2. What are some good places to observe and collect fish in the Charlotte and Banner Elk areas.
#2 Guest_Yeahson421_*
Posted 02 July 2012 - 10:45 PM
#3 Guest_EricaWieser_*
Posted 03 July 2012 - 07:19 AM
Elassoma are cool because they do that cute little dance.
I started out with 5 in the fall and had 84 when I moved out of that dorm in the spring (I put them in my 55 gallon tank and the population expanded). I recommend culturing grindal worms or buying cubes of frozen bloodworms to feed them as it trains them to come forward for food and to not be afraid of a human face.
Elassoma (I chose okefenokee/gilberti), heterandria formosa, Leptolucania ommata, etc. There are a lot of neat fish you can keep in a 10 gallon tank. A one inch fish like Elassoma would have plenty of room. Be careful with the North Carolina pygmy sunfish; there are rare ones that you should leave in the wild to reproduce there.
I use the $4 for 25 pounds Special Kitty pure clay kitty litter as a substrate myself. You can also use sand, which is inexpensive at your local hardware store, and then buy root tabs to stick under it for the plants. It's so easy to pitch inexpensive substrates when you go to move (I lived in a different dorm and summer housing each time, moving 8 times total during college) and buy a new $4 bag when you get to your new dorm. The tiny cost made throwing it out not a big deal. With substrates like Fluorite or EcoComplete or Fluoromax I'd hesitate to pitch $15 of substrate every time I moved. I also had a 55 gallon tank when I was in college, so that would have been more like $75 each of the 8 times I moved. *shudders* But yeah, it's easier to move a completely empty tank than it is a tank with a few inches of water and substrate in it. That was a bigger deal when moving my 55 gallon tank from dorm to dorm than it was the 10 gallon.
Edited by EricaWieser, 03 July 2012 - 07:47 AM.
#4
Posted 03 July 2012 - 08:02 AM
This tank is pretty easy to maintain if you just clean the filter and vacuum the gravel and feed frozen foods (a little expensive for a college student but not too bad).
#7 Guest_damias_*
Posted 03 July 2012 - 09:35 PM
And I'm not sure if i'm supposed to ask questions like this but do you know know of any locations specifically, in Charlotte where i can find them. Or is anyone around this area going on a hunt and can i tag along?
Edited by damias, 03 July 2012 - 09:42 PM.
#8 Guest_Drew_*
Posted 03 July 2012 - 09:41 PM
Cool ideas guys, thanks for the suggestions. I'm thinking of going with the Pygmy Sunfish.
And I'm not sure if i'm supposed to ask questions like this but do you know know of any locations specifically, in Charlotte where i can find them. Or is anyone around this area going on a hunt and can i tag along?
http://collections.n...archFishes.aspx
#9 Guest_damias_*
#12 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:32 PM
Be careful if you try keeping mosquitofish with pygmys. Mosquitofish can get vicious and the pygmys will have a hard time getting enough food.
#13 Guest_UncleWillie_*
Posted 17 July 2012 - 03:15 PM
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