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Thanks! Haha, Orion is just the name I gave to my Peacock mantis shrimp.I like this tank! I don’t even know what Orion is? Km going to google to see but looking for pics or videos.
Yeah I collect them myself. They wash up along the shore and I walk around in the surf and pluck them out of the sand before they can burrow down. I normally only put 2-3 in the tank at once because they have a low survival rate. Most filter feeding clams don't live very long in a home aquarium especially a small tank like mine. I freeze some of them and offer them to Orion later and he loves finding them in the tank.Where do you get coquinas from? Do you catch them yourself? I’ve always thought it would be cool to keep some of them in my tack even though I’m sure I’d never see them. Anyways, your tank is very nice looking and I’d love to see some more pictures of Orion.
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Thanks! Since I only have a 20 gallon tank, I’d say keeping nitrates down was the hardest thing, but once the macroalgae grew throughout the tank it has proven to be less of a problem. At this point I could probably throw a cheeseburger in there and still have low nitrates. Keeping a Peacock mantis is easy if you have a good nutrient export strategy. Now growing coral on the other hand…. that still frustrates me!Love the tank! I really want to do a setup like this. What you say has been the biggest challenge in keeping a mantis?