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12-18-2007, 11:16 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Aug 2007
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 |  who lives in a sump/spare tank
Hello guys,
I have a 50 gallon tank (build it myself). Now under my tank I still had a rather big empty space and decided to build another small closed tank under it so I had a bigger watervolume for my tank, the water flows from my main tank into the smaller tank en than trough the canisterfilter back in the maintank. I was thinking what critter can I put in this completly closed tank, to help keep ik clean? Hermits? Snails? But you have to consider the tank is standing in a dark corner, which animal doesn't mind the darker conditions?
Greetings,
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12-18-2007, 11:22 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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snails dont mind darkness | |
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12-18-2007, 11:22 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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I'd get hermits and snails. I doubt that they'll mind the dark too much. | |
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12-18-2007, 11:49 AM
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| | Purple Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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if its in the dark why would you put anything in it?
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12-18-2007, 12:10 PM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
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Originally Posted by reef_guru  if its in the dark why would you put anything in it? | Many reef janitors are nocturnal! | |
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12-18-2007, 12:15 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
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My turbo snails only come out at night! Weird. It kind of sucks because they are orange spotted turbo snails and their shells actually look very nice! I was just pondering this same question. I want to put something into my sump to keep it clean between the baffles...
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40g with 10g sump with 40 lbs liverock, 1.5" deep livesand bed.
Fish - halloween hermits, blue leg hermits, left-handed hermits, emerald crabs, assorted snails, chocolate chip star, 3x strawberry conches, tuxedo urchin, electric flame scallop, gold stripe maroon clown, carpenter's flasher wrasse, 6line, yellow tang, yellow watchman goby, white seabae anemone.
Coral - Yellow polyps, Kenya Tree, Purple Acro, Pink Birds Nest, Hammer coral. | |
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12-18-2007, 12:15 PM
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| | Purple Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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true calisky, but the sump! do you have snails and crabs in your sump, i dont. to much flow for critters to get lost, damaged ,sucked up, clog inlets, clog outlets, and so on. makes no sense to me. if anything make a refugium out of it. | |
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12-18-2007, 12:30 PM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
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to much flow for critters to get lost, damaged ,sucked up, clog inlets, clog outlets, and so on. makes no sense to me. if anything make a refugium out of it.
| Hmm... You are right guru! All these tiny buggers can easily make your life difficult when placed in the sump. | |
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12-18-2007, 01:27 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Dakota Age: 31
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I have a sump/fuge that I just call a sump but I suppose it's actually a refugium. I have a turbo snail, a hermit crab and 2 really small peppermint shrimp in it with a ball of cheato and some substrate/live rock in it. It's a mini tank with a light on it. Kind of my second tank and I do feed them a bit every 2 days. Just something cool to look at as feather dusters have bloomed like crazy in there.
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90 gallon with 26 gallon sump/refugium, 2 x 250 MH lighting, 100lbs live rock, 1 - yellow tang,1 damsel, 1 - cleaner shrimp, 1 - coral banded shrimp, 3 - emerald crabs, 2 - porcelin crabs, 6 - peppermint shrimp, 1 - green ricordia, 1 - toadstool, 1 - brittle starfish, 1 - sand sifting star, 100's baby feather dusters,Ass mushrooms, frogspawn, xenia, 1 clam,
6 - Leather coral, Green star polyps,Lime green/orange button polyps,1 huge carpet anenome,various snails/hermit crabs | |
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12-18-2007, 01:29 PM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Purple Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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a refugium shouldnt have any livestock other than micro animals | |
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