FrankZ
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Thank you for the suggestion. We will have a look into this.
Um... Yes, lol I got them as adults. They max out at an inch. They aren't very active either. That is why they are called "nano" fish.Andy Sager said:Okay then, let me ask this:
You say you have 4 pigmy sunfish in a 5 gal tank. Is this tank big enough for them to reach maturity? If it isn't, you are not really doing right by your fish keeping them in a smaller aquarium. This goes back to another thread I participated in with the question being "can you vs should you?"
What you're proposing sounds more like a species specific discussion more than a tank size discussion.
I understand costs and the like but what I'm saying is that if you were to pick up a good book on maintaining a FW tank, the information would apply to any sized aquarium. The word "NANO" does not change anything. If you pick up a book on maintaining a SW aquarium, there is different info for a "NANO" tank due to it's size and limitations.
I'm not trying to be difficult here, it just sounds like this should be a species specific thread more than a tank size thread. Obviously, this is just my opinion
That is strange... I think it may be just as easy after all. People say that water quality is an issue for small tanks. Well if it is cycled and not overstocked, it should be fine. As long as people don't overstock their nano tanks, I don't think they are harder to keep. Everything is to scale. LOL. People say that it takes less ammonia to kill fish in a 1g. Well duh! Haha. But say you had one shrimp in a 1g. If you had 10 shrimp in a 10g. Sure it would take more ammonia to kill the shrimp in a 10g, but it is still the same amount in proportion... Say it was 1 ppm. If you dosed 1 ppm in a 1g, it would be extremely difficult. If you dosed it in a 10g, it would take 10x the amount for the one gallon.
Um... Yes, lol I got them as adults. They max out at an inch. They aren't very active either. That is why they are called "nano" fish.
Yes you do Andy, you just need to know where to find them. I actually know of 3 to 4 species off the top of my head that you'd likely find in most any vegetated waterway or spring fed ditch in your area.Thanks for the info. This is a new species to me. We don't get Sunfish that small in my part of FL. The closest we get to that size is the Flagfish. Another pretty local fish
So there is different info on the "size and limitations" of a nano fw tank too...you just said it. Certain fish shouldn't be kept in one, and the number of fish that can be kept in one certainly more than any other time don't fall under the "1 inch per gallon" rule. It would be nice to have all of this info in one spot on AA. I don't know about you, but I've seen more than my fair share of the "I have x amount of fish in a 5 gallon" thread, and the same information is repeated to these people time and time again. Let's have all of that info in one spot.
Bravo to "looking into it".
Yes you do Andy, you just need to know where to find them. I actually know of 3 to 4 species off the top of my head that you'd likely find in most any vegetated waterway or spring fed ditch in your area.