Thinking about starting a shell dweller tank! Advice is appreciated!

[keegster803]

Ok. I thought it was a bit farfetched. But it must be more so towards as minimal as possible so they don't get disturbed with your hands in the tank daily lol I do the rest of my tanks weekly so they will likely follow the same schedule.

These guys seem pretty cool so I'm looking forward to setting up a tank for them sometime! I hope my stores around here get them in from time to time. It will be cool to have kind of a different setup with a more bare tank with shells along with my rocky mbuna tank and my girlfriends community tank


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I've read the reason that people don't do such often maintenance weekly, is because lake tang has usually stable levels, and if you change one of those parameters too quickly, then the fish will die from shock. But that's only what I have read, don't shoot the messenger ?


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[Fishperson]

I've read the reason that people don't do such often maintenance weekly, is because lake tang has usually stable levels, and if you change one of those parameters too quickly, then the fish will die from shock. But that's only what I have read, don't shoot the messenger ?


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If that's so, I would assume that you should do the opposite then; small frequent water changes rather than large infrequent ones.

Regardless, Multies and most shellies are pretty hardy IME so far.

 

[Daven]

I'd think doing smaller ones would be better if that was the case. However maybe it touches more towards stressing them out by messing with things and poking around with a giant tube lol


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[Fishperson]

Yeah I don't think it's too important. I treat them like any other fish.