Marine Plants / Algae

[Ram_Puppy]

Richard, is that the tiggerpod culture you have been thinking about?

I swear if you set one up commercially i will buy from you!

- subliminal message - DO IT -

[Richard]

Steve - no these are tiny copepods, no bigger than newly hatched bbs. I have a tigger pod culture going but I won't be selling them although we do have the tigger pods in stock again. They are SO easy to culture all you need is a 5 gallon bucket, a cheap light, some dt's live phytoplankton, and some liquid Miracle Grow plant food to keep the phyto growing. They reproduce like crazy.
The little copepods that are thriving in my fuge have been tough to culture so I have to figure out WTH they need to thrive and reproduce.

On another note, I ordered my dwarf seahorse tank
http://www.cadlights.com/product_inf...products_id=34

[erikharrison]

I am also faltering towards brakish, as i could keep a dwarf puffer in there... but i think they can be acclimated to full strength sea water. so still not sure.

I have a dwarf puffer! They are FULL of personality, and the reason that I had been inspired to buy a s/w tank in the first place. A little 1/2" fish got me to this??? HUH?
You can do some other puffers, as I am sure you know, in brackish, but you have to consider space! Looks like that's why you went with dwarves? IDK about the whole s/w switch with them though. The shaving brushes look pretty sweet too!

[brewercm]

I've been thinking about turning my 14 gallon biocube into a seahorse tank since I can't seem to find anyone that wants to buy it at a decent price (just want me to give away a two month old tank, no thanks just go buy full price then). OK, that was my rant but was curious about the smaller horses myself and am wanting more info on the smaller versions that can go in this since it would be a seahorse only tank.

What should I stay away from as far as clean up type critters go for this type of system. I'm also a little worried about putting live rock into it after reading about the aiptasia now, seems every piece of LR I've every bought probably had some in it somewhere.

Any further info.

[Richard]

Cliff, a 14 gallon isn't really a good size tank for seahorse's. Too small for regular sh's and a little big for dwarves. You would have to keep a very large herd of dwarf's to make that work well. Usually people stay under 10 gallons to keep dwarfs. The only sh that might work would be a pair of breviceps but they are temperate so then you'd have to get a chiller to keep the temps in the mid 60's. So it would be better to get a smaller tank for dwarves or a bigger tank for normal size seahorses.

Alot of people will not use liverock with dwarves because of the pests. I'm going to use some tonga branch since it is not full of holes so it's easy to spot aiptasia and remove any you see. I'll treat it with panacur also just to make sure I don't get hydroids in the tank. Most people will also treat any macro algaes with panacur before they put them in the tank since hydroids can tag along with macros also..