@dansyr
oh :( that's sad too! like they can't fulfil their true purpose
!! I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to add mini maxis and rock flower nems to one or other of these small tanks, mostly because I want a porcelain crab (maybe) or sexy shrimp or some other nem-loving critter.
Have you heard about cosmic nano gobies (eviota lachdeberei)? They form symbiotic relationships with plate coral?
I was going to do a pair with a fungia in my 13.5 evo, but I can't find them in the UK, and am honestly pretty disappointed about it, but maybe you could try? I was going to source them from Biota (I swear I saw a source of Biota fish here in the UK, but I can't find it now for love nor money)
I was thinking about a clam, but not in my 5 gal - I was considering my 26 gal, but I ixnayed that idea, at least until a few years down the road after my frogfish and clown/nem stocking ideas - that is, I want to try a frogfish, and THEN clowns with a nem, not both together, lol
I've always considered feather dusters too difficult for me to try, but I don't know... I'm indecisive about what to put in my 2 gal jar vs this new 5 gal spec, but feathers were a passing consideration
I had this idea of building opposing 'piles' of rock in either corner of the Spec V tank, kind of facing each other (in the red corner! in the blue corner!) with space behind them so I can see what's going on under there, but IDK if it'd create too many problems with dead spots unless I scape really carefully. MIght give it a try when the tank gets here ,should be this week.
I'm considering a flaming prawn goby and maybe a fairy goby of some kind, but I haven't done thorough research just yet - I suspect they'd be okay together because one is more ground dwelling, the other more swimming, but honestly I'm not sure
The stocking for my fluval 13.5 covers barnacle blennies, which I'd otherwise try in this 5 gal
I was considering catalina gobies, but they don't want to be cool, they want to be COLD, and I'd need a chiller and I just can't faff around with another one (I need to get one to set up an axolotl tank)
Maybe some trimma gobies? I really liked them when I saw them in my old LFS before I moved, they are really cute.
I'm not THAT interested in SPS, however, that doesn't mean I wouldn't try a cheap stick in a couple of tanks, just to see. I've seen other people manage with them, but IDK, might be too difficult for me.
When we go back to the blue coral banded, that makes me leery of putting tiny creatures in with it - the guy on his own (with snails, etc, but no other shrimp) in the 2 gal might be cool, but I'm still trying to find out if that'd be too small for it.
I'm considering mushrooms if not RFS/mini maxis in the 5 gal, just a whole load of shrooms, maybe in like segmented rainbow colors (at first, until they break free and do what they want! lol)
The thing about those dwarf nems is the average price is like £50 here for one, which makes my wallet scream whenever it thinks about it.
I actually decided to turn the Spec III freshwater and replace it with a Spec V because of the flaming prawn gobies though - I thought the III might be too small, but now I'm wondering if the V is too big :s
@Crabs+Shrimps-69
No! and they're so tiny!
I found a 'short' here:
but I can't for the life of me find the full length vid it was in, I'm sure there was one. I saw it years ago and popped them on my list to check out back then. I swear there was a longer vid with more info on them :S
oooh, nice. I might look into them again then, I had dismissed them because I heard they were hard to feed.
I wish reefers had a site like seriouslyfish for FW fish - it'd be amazing to have more concrete guidelines (oxymoron?) on tank size, compatibility, feeding, etc
