Dorm room tank ideas? - Aquarium Advice

hamburgler · 01-17-2007, 11:04 PM

So last semester i did the 10g thing on my desk...it was real nice until it came time to move it. Moving fish tanks sucks as you all know.
But it just seems kind of boring without it and i would really miss the filter noise. Plus there is always something to do even if its just a water change, its just something to do and enjoy.

So does anyone have any suggestions? Setup will be:
2.5 (possibly 5.5) glass tank
whisper 30 with adjusted flow
gravel, driftwood, etc.
heater if necessary

I am not interested in doing a pico/nano reef. I'm looking for something different, along the lines of shrimp or crabs of some sort. I can get anything through the store i work at too. Brackish or freshwater is cool.

Thanks!

squawkbert · 01-17-2007, 11:14 PM

I don't wanna call anyone names, but my skinny 130lb butt managed to lug a 20g show tank through 4 years of college (along w/ an old 55g reptile tank, cinder blocks, shelf boards...).

hamburgler · 01-17-2007, 11:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by squawkbert

I don't wanna call anyone names, but my skinny 130lb butt managed to lug a 20g show tank through 4 years of college (along w/ an old 55g reptile tank, cinder blocks, shelf boards...).

Well its not the work of doing so...its that i want something new to try and i want more desk room (actually some desk room period) this semester since i have my laptop on their too. Not to mention we have 4 bikes in the standard double room.

I go home on the weekends to work at a fish shop, and have a cichlid tank at home. So i get enough fish if you ask me.

squawkbert · 01-17-2007, 11:30 PM

A 10 could fit easily on a microwave or TV cart w/o breaking it. If you have a little floorspace for that... or a smaller DP tank?

hamburgler · 01-17-2007, 11:35 PM

Nah not interested in doing fish. Want to keep it small...i'm using spare equipment.

blazeyreef · 01-17-2007, 11:38 PM

well you could do a neat shrimp tank!

neilanh · 01-18-2007, 12:53 AM

Hammer's Cobalt Blue Lobster

LiveAquaria's link

Tank might be too small though.

toddnbecka · 01-18-2007, 01:32 AM

I'd go with the 5.5 for a minimum size, and stock some java moss/fern, cherry shrimp, spixi snails, and possibly a dwarf crayfish. That's similar to my 10 gallon setup, which currently houses several hundred shrimp (mostly young ones). A dwarf cajun crayfish will happily eat baby snails and eggs, but won't bother the shrimp, and spixi eggs are easy to remove if they become overabundant (unlike ramshorns).

lyquidphyre · 01-18-2007, 01:39 AM

I'm pretty sure any type of crayfish will be too big for a 2-5gal.

Definatly go with shrimp! Thats what Im going to do with my 3gal =o)

toddnbecka · 01-18-2007, 02:10 AM

Dwarf cajuns aka Cambarellus shufeldtii only grow to about 1.5"; there are shrimp that grow larger than that.

01-17-2007, 11:04 PM	#1
hamburgler Aquarium Advice Regular Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 99	Dorm room tank ideas? So last semester i did the 10g thing on my desk...it was real nice until it came time to move it. Moving fish tanks sucks as you all know. But it just seems kind of boring without it and i would really miss the filter noise. Plus there is always something to do even if its just a water change, its just something to do and enjoy. So does anyone have any suggestions? Setup will be: 2.5 (possibly 5.5) glass tank whisper 30 with adjusted flow gravel, driftwood, etc. heater if necessary I am not interested in doing a pico/nano reef. I'm looking for something different, along the lines of shrimp or crabs of some sort. I can get anything through the store i work at too. Brackish or freshwater is cool. Thanks!

01-17-2007, 11:14 PM	#2
squawkbert Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 256	I don't wanna call anyone names, but my skinny 130lb butt managed to lug a 20g show tank through 4 years of college (along w/ an old 55g reptile tank, cinder blocks, shelf boards...). __________________ Thanks, Squawkbert WWIIOL Veteran Tanks:1MiniBow 5g, Coralife 10W Colormax, 3 Harlequin Rasboras, Amano shrimp, pond snails, Jungle Val, Bacopa, C. wendtii 46 bowfront: 3 Cardinals, 5 Black Neons, 4 Black Phantoms, 2 Serpae/Minor, 2 C. aeneus, C. trilineatus, 2 black Mollies, 4 Otos, 6 Pristellas, P. Scalare Cryptocoryne wendtii, Java Fern, Val, Bacopa caroliniana, Anubias, Bolbitis, A. reineckii rosefolia, 5g RCS tank 5g RCS/java moss, Najas guadalupensis... tank

01-17-2007, 11:30 PM	#4
squawkbert Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 256	A 10 could fit easily on a microwave or TV cart w/o breaking it. If you have a little floorspace for that... or a smaller DP tank? __________________ Thanks, Squawkbert WWIIOL Veteran Tanks:1MiniBow 5g, Coralife 10W Colormax, 3 Harlequin Rasboras, Amano shrimp, pond snails, Jungle Val, Bacopa, C. wendtii 46 bowfront: 3 Cardinals, 5 Black Neons, 4 Black Phantoms, 2 Serpae/Minor, 2 C. aeneus, C. trilineatus, 2 black Mollies, 4 Otos, 6 Pristellas, P. Scalare Cryptocoryne wendtii, Java Fern, Val, Bacopa caroliniana, Anubias, Bolbitis, A. reineckii rosefolia, 5g RCS tank 5g RCS/java moss, Najas guadalupensis... tank

01-17-2007, 11:38 PM	#6
blazeyreef Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Nashville TN Posts: 1,598 Images: 1	well you could do a neat shrimp tank! __________________ Houston "Face Trials with Smiles"-Porter Ellett *My aquariums-5gall snowball shrimp, 20long-awaiting setup,29gall planted* "We are nothing until we make ourselves somthing" CTR**

01-18-2007, 01:39 AM	#9
lyquidphyre Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: McKinney, Tx Posts: 2,860 Images: 21	I'm pretty sure any type of crayfish will be too big for a 2-5gal. Definatly go with shrimp! Thats what Im going to do with my 3gal =o) __________________ Have cats? Check out AA's sister site designed for our feline friends

01-17-2007, 11:35 PM	#5
hamburgler Aquarium Advice Regular Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 99	Nah not interested in doing fish. Want to keep it small...i'm using spare equipment.

01-18-2007, 01:32 AM	#8
toddnbecka Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cumberland, MD Posts: 750	I'd go with the 5.5 for a minimum size, and stock some java moss/fern, cherry shrimp, spixi snails, and possibly a dwarf crayfish. That's similar to my 10 gallon setup, which currently houses several hundred shrimp (mostly young ones). A dwarf cajun crayfish will happily eat baby snails and eggs, but won't bother the shrimp, and spixi eggs are easy to remove if they become overabundant (unlike ramshorns).

01-18-2007, 02:10 AM	#10
toddnbecka Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cumberland, MD Posts: 750	Dwarf cajuns aka Cambarellus shufeldtii only grow to about 1.5"; there are shrimp that grow larger than that.

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