My community tank

[BeastBoy115]

I have my first community tank. I tried my best to set up an island.

Now everything that's in it....
5 corydoras
5 sunburst platys
1 albino pleco
6 fiddler crabs
7 red claw crabs
4 ram horn snail
1 assassin snail
I have another build in my living room coming soon
I'm to tired to fix pics I'll try again tomorrow

 

[Autumnsky]

What size is the tank?

What filter are you running?

 

[BeastBoy115]

36×18×18 a reptile tank and its a small internal pump filter I converted into a bigger filter by taking the lower camber off. I use a Fluval media bag and some filter wool.

And put every thing in a food container cut holes in it for the water to pass through it and sealed it ran the hose line through the base to make it look like it was a waterfall

 

[Autumnsky]

The island looks good. Cool. Do you know your water volume?

 

[BeastBoy115]

Yeah I don't know exactly how much I put 5-6 gallons in the tank its like 5-6 inches but when I redo the tank I'm going alil higher next one

 

[JtheNomad]

How are your Fiddlers and Red Claws getting along so far? I have 1 Fiddler in in my 40 gallon right now and I'm wondering about adding a Red Claw. My only concern is I've made 2 makeshift landings and the tank is about 16 inches Height-wise and about 13 inches high with water, with a branch leading up to one landing and rocks eclipsing the water for my second land piece and im worried that there might not be enough land and they would fight

 

[BeastBoy115]

Not if you have enough land and water space they should be good. Mine are doing fine. My biggest red claw has killed 3 red claws when I had them separate from the fiddlers. The fiddlers are very calm. I thought it was going to be crazy in the tank with just them then I added the fish. I was on stand by for a couple of weeks and in those weeks 1 fish died. But they have had some fry since. It would be nice to see your set up

 

[JtheNomad]

Its nothing amazing like your set up since this is my first aquarium but I wanted a small amount of land for a crab or two without giving up a good amount of water volume for plenty of fish, since I first tried to create a mound of sand substrate for an shoreline against the left or right side. I settled for two pieces of wood with suction cups attached and I set those above the water line(its a bit high as I just topped off after my water change), on one side I have Dragonstone leading up and the other side I have a branch. As my crab gets bigger I'd like to extend out the piece around the back glass of the tank. My Fiddler manages to find a way up and ive never seen him stuck at the bottom of the tank for more than a few hours or when molting. As for the lid I bought a 40 gallon Reptile lid with the grated wire so no escape attempts yet.

 

[JtheNomad]

Here my Crab is Chilling

 

[BeastBoy115]

Your tank looks good I would lower the water just a tad so the crab doesn't find away out. And did you make the platform or you bought it and I would go with the turtle platform it's a little bigger and you can put some vegetation on it for him to hide mine like to bury them selfs under the substrate. But all in all it looks good

 

[BeastBoy115]

I want to down load vid. It won't let me