Any seagrass nano's?

[Samala]

Oh duh, I shoulda looked at your sig line! Considering displacement from the DSB, I think your tank is going to have the same gallonage mine does, and my jawfish was plenty happy. He was the only fish though. Considering their cute factor, I'd chance it if it were me.

One thing with the jawfish is you need to have larger sized rubble (shell peices, very small bits of LR, or just larger grade sand bits) for him to build his burrow. Since my substrate was rather fine for the grasses I had to offer up piles of rubble to the jawfish so he could construct a strong burrow.

>Sarah

[CamBarr]

any updates one your tank samala

[halophila]

Originally posted by Samala
Wonderful photos and setups Halophila, as always. I'm not surprised you have such nice ovalis under 36w only......

Sarah,

You will be surprised if you find other seagrasses thrive as well as Halophila in the same condition. The keypoint is the shallow depth rather than lamp power. I will not consider PL lamp/T5 if the water depth is >12".

[ClamIAm]

Hermit crabs...do they eat seagrasses? I'm guessing they do but I'm not sure. Anything you can reccomend as a tank cleaner that won't bother seagrasses if that is in fact the case?

[Samala]

Cam, if you hit the red house on my posts it links you to my website/weblog where I update on my current tanks.

Halophila, I would definitely be shocked if anything liked the low light tank other than Halophila! Maybe a brackish plant like Ruppia or Vallisneria might make it though. That could be a fun tank.

I had a question for you actually, there are sooo many seagrasses in your general geographic area, have you attempted any species other than the ovalis and what appears to be species of Halodule in the tank?

>Sarah

[halophila]

Originally posted by ClamIAm
Hermit crabs...do they eat seagrasses? I'm guessing they do but I'm not sure. Anything you can reccomend as a tank cleaner that won't bother seagrasses if that is in fact the case?

Hi Clamiam, I use the following two organisms for tank cleaning:

Goby


An unknown snail labelled at C


They are very effective in removing epiphytic algae on the surface of seagrass.

[halophila]

Originally posted by Samala
Halophila, I would definitely be shocked if anything liked the low light tank other than Halophila! Maybe a brackish plant like Ruppia or Vallisneria might make it though. That could be a fun tank.

Unfortuantely I am not interested in brackish tank, nor my macroalgae can survive there. Perhaps, you could set up a brackish tank to show us their beautiness?

Originally posted by Samala
I had a question for you actually, there are sooo many seagrasses in your general geographic area, have you attempted any species other than the ovalis and what appears to be species of Halodule in the tank?
>Sarah [/B]

Sarah, there are even more seagrasses in US region from Central to West coast Pacific, Caribbean and Atlantic coast. It is so easy to get seagrass from mail order/online shops, I really admire that.

And by what implication did you get that this is Halophila ovalis? I never say so!



Instead of continuing hijack Deacon's post, I am thinking about to post a new thread about the organisms in this nano marine planted tank. Sarah, your questions about Halodule-like plant, unknown Halophila will be answered there .

[Samala]

I'd love to see a whole new thread for you little nano. On the ovalis.. sure looks like the ovalis I have! Of course, that hardly means a thing when we start looking at the available Halophila in your area. I'll chat more in your new thread!

>Sarah

[CamBarr]

sweet shrimp!
BTW what do you feed them dont they strictly feed on the tube feet of echinoderms.

[halophila]

Originally posted by CamBarr
sweet shrimp!
BTW what do you feed them dont they strictly feed on the tube feet of echinoderms.

Hi Cambarr, I feed them with frozen mysis and flake food, never see them eat their echinoderms host though. They are merely cucumber-hitchhikers