TheMurrays
Aquarium Advice Freak
Buying more sand today, and hopefully a heater. Happy to be working on a tank again.
Lookin' awesome! Better than mine. You asked way back in the thread about algae eaters for the tank.. Fiddlers do eat algae, but not effeciently. I keep various snails with them including MTS, nerites, and ramshorns.
Wow! That is an incredible tank! And this is a 29gal right? So neat. I'll have to look into that filter when my turn comes.
Do you have some type of retaining wall to hold that sand in place? If I remember correctly from my own experiences with fiddlers, they like to burrow don't they? Seems like I remember them stirring up all kinds of things in the water. If you don't have one (can't quite tell from the picture) you might want to consider some type of barrier to help hold that larger sand area in place. Something like this might work, or even just a wall of larger rocks dry stacked would be better than nothing.
I thought they would, but I've never seen one burrow. Maybe some species do and some do not.
Ok, you can't really tell from the pic, but here's what's going on. We have a large river rock slanted in the tank. Behind that are two other large rocks. I filled the cracks in with large gravel. Then covered the top with sand. There is only about three inches of sand, which from what I have read is not enough for borrowing. The slanted rock is holding everything in place, along with some smaller rocks that are lined up on top of it.
Wy Renegade said:Good to hear, sounds like you've got it covered. You'll have to keep us updated on whether they try burrowing or not - like I said, its been awhile. Nice looking set-up regardless.
I hope everything goes well. You are braver than I, venturing into the world of salt and all.