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Hello guys I have a three gallon tank and I need ideas what to do with it for Ever salt and freshwater it’s 3 gallons
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Awesome thank youThere aren't really any freshwater fish I would put in 3 gallons, except maybe pygmy sunfish (maybe), or possibly a scarlet badis. The others need more space to move. Even micro rasboras should be in a tank over 5 gallons, they're zippy.
Saltwater, check out nanoreef.com, there's some really cool tanks on that site. Zoanthids are nice. A single tiny goby like a trimma would be fine, they perch and don't need space to swim.
Exactly! I want a pair so I can breed them, but alas, I already have plans...and simply not enough aquariums/the budget for everything.Oh, flaming prawn gobies! Incredible fish, but expensive and shy. Best in a little tank so you can see them.
Or kill each other...that's another option as well...I wonder if they might actually be shoaling fish? I hear they have some interesting displays when kept together. I would really love to have a 10gal tank with half a dozen of them, maybe some sort of chill dither fish, and not much else. Maybe zoas and whatnot. Either they'll group up and reveal that it's a thing they do, or they'll just kind of ignore each other. Be expensive, though- I better hope someone figures out how to breed them. They might actually be cheaper captive-bred than wild-caught.
Mollies are a euryhaline species, so technically they're a saltwater species AND a freshwater species. Take into account that fish farms in Asia will oftentimes use saltwater since it's cheaper, and the freshwater mollies you buy at the petstore are easily acclimated to saltwater. I want to work with linebreeding the fish I have to get better lyretails, more iridescence in the dorsal/caudal fins, and more overall hardiness in the fish (i.e. they can survive to 68 F, can handle saltwater, and aren't prone to the clampy "livebearer disease")Well, yeah, murder is a potential thing. I've heard that people keep them together without any problems, just the males doing little flickery fin displays at each other, so I don't think these do murder.
Are there actual saltwater mollies? I know freshwater mollies can be acclimated to salt, but I've never heard of an actual black saltwater species.
Heated and sponge filter in the backThere was an interesting thread before about good nano fish.
Discordipinna griessingeri. Much more beautiful than its name.
Will you have the tank heated? not heated? Plumbed to a larger system? Filtered? These are all aspects that will affect the eventual stocking.
That's pretty cool looking! I'm not sure how large the dimensions are but you could try comb jellies? Maybe?
I'm more concerned about how flow patterns in that tank work. Like...it's obviously based off of something like a kreisel design. But is the water supposed to flow upwards and through the grates from somewhere? If there's a grate at the bottom, that will need to be not blocked (no substrate).
Dwarf seahorses might do well in the tank, and you could probably use it as a rearing tank for some fish larvae. But a lot of the species we discussed previously are going to be out due to the tank not being a standard rectangular prism.