My first aquarium is a 6g nano, looking for fish ideas.

[Craigj247]

Love the light.... Love the tank.... Love the aqua scraping.... But would be able to appreciate it that much more if I saw something live in there

 

[waffle]

How about a harlequin shrimp or two?

 

[leilei]

How about a harlequin shrimp or two?

How well do harlequin shrimp do with peppermints? How many shrimp should I have?

 

[waffle]

I don't have any experience with them, I was inquiring about them myself

 

[KoaGecko]

Harelquin are intresting speices with a even more intresting diet. They will only accept starfish. So every time you feed them it costs a tun. Other then that they are a fairly easy speices.

 

[KoaGecko]

They will be fine with your peppermint shrimp. As for the how many it all depends on you.

 

[waffle]

I heard brittle stars reproduce fast..if they were kept in a lager tanks sump would they be ok?

 

[KoaGecko]

Britlle stars are finethey will reproduce fast but not out of hand. They are scavengers so as long you dont over feed you ar good.

 

[KoaGecko]

Leilei hows the tank coming

 

[leilei]

Leilei hows the tank coming

Thanks for checking up on me! The tank is going well. I probably won't add fish until after I move into the dorms, to avoid traumatizing them too much. But I did find an asterina star, a couple of bristleworms, a limpet, a majano, a sponge, a new snail, and some other anemone.

After I move, I'll be getting two neon gobies, hopefully a male and a female so they won't fight. And then probably some zoas?

 

[KoaGecko]

No problem. THe stock list sounds good but you have a problem with the majano anemone. They spread so fast and can sting corals, etc. Also post a picture of the other anenome it may be aptasia, another nusience anemone.

 

[leilei]

No problem. THe stock list sounds good but you have a problem with the majano anemone. They spread so fast and can sting corals, etc. Also post a picture of the other anenome it may be aptasia, another nusience anemone.

I have something that looks like either a corynactis or pseudocorynactis. From this thread. If it stays really small, we can assume it's corynactis, right? That's the harmless one. Also, I feel bad getting rid of the majano, since it's not currently hurting anything or multiplying. Same goes for the supposedly coral-eating asterina star.

 

[KoaGecko]

Just make sure they dont take over those majano. Also i would get advice from elsewhere on the corynactis. But the asterina stars are perfectly fine. They are fast to multiply and are great scavengers.