FishBen

They should eat blood worms, it just may take them a while to get back to eating in a new tank. I know it took mine a few days

Thanks a lot for the replies! Greatly helpful The tank I have planned will not be large, only around 70 litres. I know it's better to have a larger tank, but I really don't have the space available, and it will make it harder to keep cool (without a chiller). I agree keeping it cool will be one of the larger challenges I'll have.. I've had a couple ideas about keeping it cool (due to money and space being in short supply, a chiller isn't really an option), one was mounting a fan or two above it and another was keeping the tank to the side of a window, so if i opened it there would be a cool air flow circulating over the tank. Feedback would be appreciated! Another challenge will be the water quality! I can source some natural salt water fairly easily, but any specialist marine equipment, I think even just marine test kits/phosphate removing media will need to be ordered in from HFF or the like, since Nelson has ZERO Fish stores with marine support. :evil: I think the most I can get is a marine rated aqua one bulb! Any stock will include rock pool inhabitants and any very small fish that i am lucky enough to catch and are legal to take. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

I was thinking about setting up a native marine tank, and I was wondering if I'd need all the fancy expensive normal marine equipment for it, or just the basic filter/light/tank/sand. And the only differences from tropical is it being cold and saltwater! No live rocks, corrals and stuff like that. I have a limited knowledge of marine (limited being basically zilch), but I do know it's VERY expensive to set up a classic reef marine tank. Hence this option! Plus I'd quite like to have something different So please, share your knowledge edit: sorry wasn't sure if I should put this in natives or saltwater, hope it's OK here D:

I've got 2 gobbys with 2 dwarf puffers, they all get along well

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Put your heater suction cup up higher, so it's not holding the heater on the element section.

yeah the tank im moving my puffers to has had a serious snail infestation building >;D Do the gobbies eat the blood worms? I read that they'll only eat live food, hoping that's not the case :lol:

Haha yeah, my d.puffers are evil little things! What do you feed that tank? Frozen blood worms?

Cheers Yeah I got a shell for my gobbie to claim, hopefuly he/she'll like it and move in :lol:

Was more a question of will the gobby need salt and if he does will the puffers be OK with the salt

Today I found a bumblebee gobbie in a LFS in Nelson.. Which is rare since Nelson very rarely has any... Interesting fish in the LFS, so I asked the LFS owner about them and she said she had been keeping them in freshwater, I thought it was strange since I thought they would only live in Brackish water. So I of course bought it! He's currently sitting in my little tank with some glass cats and albino cories, water was already a bit salty, I added a bit more but not too much because I know the cats will hate it I read here (http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/bre ... obies.html) that this (Brachygobius xanthozona) species of gobbie can tolerate fresher water, compared to Brachygobius nunus, so I was wanting opinions on keeping him in a less than fully brackish tank, say.. Half (+-) recommended salt mixture, reason will be later. I know that brackish puffers are OK with gobbies, and I was wondering if dwarf puffers will be fine with them too, or will the dwarves go batshit on the gobbies, like everything else they've been in a tank with And lastly, will dwarf puffers tolerate the same salty mixture (0.5-1 Tablespoon salt/Gallon) /Walloftext Thanks :lol:

try get some river sand, looks really nice and natural

Ya, very happy glass cats!

I don't want to buy a fish that I'll need to re-home to a different tank or sell because it gets too big.

"Adult fish can grow to a length of 8–10 inches" Thanks for the recommendation, will defiantly consider it! Really awesome site, bookmarked it :lol:

Awesome tank Btw, what colour lights do you use to grow those awesome looking plants?

I see you're a fan of specific titles.

Really nice eel! It's awesome how he comes out so much, they are usually so reclusive

Ok, thanks! 8)

Thanks for the replies! Arg!!! So much for being something simple and easy to do :lol: So now I ask, how do I raise the hardness in the water, and will I need to continue raising it every now and then? :oops:

When I first tried DIY CO2 I noticed the PH of the tank water dived, thought it must have been caused by something else and didn't think about it again (I measured PH after adding CO2, and not before). Recently I saw on an article that claimed using a CO2 system with you tank can lower the PH of the water.. I've never seen anyone here mention it, and figured they would have if it was true. Is this true? If it is, how do I regulate it?

Tank is great, puffers will be happy as can be

must be a pain finding them for photos :lol: :lol:

This is true :-? Thanks for the suggestion