richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (11/30/87)
In article <9403@shemp.UCLA.EDU> jason@CS.UCLA.EDU (Jason Rosenberg) writes: >In article <7054@pur-ee.UUCP> tom@pur-ee.UUCP (Tom McCain) writes: >>In article <1147@homxb.UUCP> agd@homxb.UUCP (A.DEACON) writes: >>Sorry, I did forget to mention that I seeded the tank from a very well >>established 250 gal. tank. My tank is a 10 gal. I used about a cup of >>crushed coral from the 250 to seed my tank. As far as the filters I am >>using a Biozonics under gravel filter and I have a Penguin 110 outside >>filter both seem to be working well. >> > >A power filter in 10 gallon tank during nitrification is really not necessary, >possibly even a hinderance. I would also be concerned about the size of your >tank. 10 Gals is awfully small for marine setup. You shouldn't expect to >add much more than a few damsels and perhaps a hermit crab and or shrimp. ^^^ Even a *few* damsels is more that a ten gallon tank is capable of supporting if they ar expected to grow. For a tank that small, neon gobies, dwarf or regular seahorses, banded pipefish, or a invertibrate tank would be a goood choice. >Dude, black mollies are freshwater fish. Well, actually they are *brackish* water fish, and can tolerate, for the most part, instantaneous transition into either fresh and salt water. There is an account in Innes (1938) of a south american characin, Leporinus fasciatus jumping from a fresh water tank to a salt water tank of a different tamprature, and nobody noticed for many hours Actually most of the livebearers are like this. I'm not saying that your prize hifin variatus platies can take being chucked into a marine tank, their wild parents probably waould'nt have had a problem. Their brackish water ancestry is why livebearers like *some* salt in the water. And the fact that they are for the most part herbivorous is why they are not great beginners fish. >Jason Rosenberg -- Richard J. Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignt lioo-ide