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My Attempt at Breeding Mandarin Dragonetts!
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Just Clownin Around
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be careful with those hanging tanks. puts alot of strain on the joints and with 10 gallons that doesnt take much
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The stand is dead level and attached to the wall with 3" screws on all 3 tiers, Plus they have about 6-7 gallons in them, so I'm not too worried about disaster. I will definitely consider doing something about the hanging tanks, but space is very limited.
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I wouldn't be worried about the shelving as compared to joint failure on the tank. 7 to 10 gallons of water on the floor stinks
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Yes, but if the tank is level, then the weight is evenly distrubuted on the bottom frame, as it should be.
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And on a side note, I kept plenty of ten gallon tanks on nothing more than 2 2 X4" s
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I feed them tetraselmis, it has been working well for 10 months. I will look into diatoms.
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Tet is good, but adding a diatom will increase your population much quicker. Gresham had recommended Thalassiosira weissflogii to me, which I'm using. You can culture it the same way as the Tet, but you also need to add silicate, which you can get from FAF.
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Yea I just bought a 75 gallon stand and the stand only supports the the tank on the very ends and one board across the middle. I was like is this going to be good for the tank and I was assured the frame supports the tank. I guess allot of stands are now comming like this. But it scared me when I saw this because I had always had stands that support the tank all the way around.
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The female is bloated, they are rising again and again! I have the egg container set up, and video of them rising. I will post it to youtube now!
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False alarm, no eggs laid, they went to sleep. Maybe tommorrow, good night.
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Thanks! I am in the middle of a tank upgrade, hopefully they will be okay with the transition.
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The transition was okay on them, they will likely lay tonight, however I cannot collect these eggs (test tomm)
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they have been doing well so far, but I have not had the chance to collect their eggs as of yet :( I will have a couple months off of work starting in mid June to get this project in full swing! I am also setting up a tank just for mandarins and corals, so I will likely have more breeding pairs soon!
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