What To Do With A 24g Cube?

[@ombomb]

Am fixating on upgrading my tank as buying / selling a house is such an unpleasent process, it's nice to have a nice goal at the end of the pain!

Will be moving everything from my nano into a 80-100 gallon reef and therefore will have the cube / cube sump free for a new project.

Had thought about dwarf seahorses, but they seem like too much of a pain to bother with. Ideally this should be something "pretty" rather that cool (otherwise I'd be researching frogfish) as it'll be in the dining room and I need to keep the other half happy!

Any suggestions for something I can research while I'm bored at work?

 

[SkiFletch]

Mantis shrimp?

 

[@ombomb]

thought about it, but it seems a waste given the dimensions of the tank as there'd be a lot of swimming space it wouldn't use. also, they don't win any points on the "pretty" scale i'm afraid, plus i like to get my hands in the tank to sort things out and don't the idea of a getting my fingers battered

i'm tempted to just a group of chromis, she loves them and it'd be nice and simple

 

[Matty P]

also lots of people are annoyed by the mantis clicking

 

[shibby]

i like the dragon pipefish

dunno what thats liek on your interestign scale though .... or wether there that easy to care for ..

 

[@ombomb]

not a bad suggestion!

no nothing about them, will have to do some googling

cheers shibby

 

[shibby]

no probs and you can consider a jawfish as a tank mate for them for a bit of qwerky nature what i wanted to do with my nano!!


got the best colourings of the pipefish imo!

 

[SkiFletch]

You could also just try a Zooanthid garden . Having only one type of coral (zoos) should promote growth.

 

[@ombomb]

after some brief reading, it seems most species of sea dragon grow to 30cm+

back to the drawing board

 

[rictheredneck]

after some brief reading, it seems most species of sea dragon grow to 30cm+

back to the drawing board

didnt know you could get sea dragons, thought they were a protected species...

 

[@ombomb]

never seen them for sale tbh, but either way they're a no for my tank

 

[shibby]

sea dragons or seamoths arent avaliable for sale endangered and dont last long in aquariums.


the dragon pipefish howeever should fit into a nano....

 

[AndyS]

Zoo/Ric Garden all the way, though if you have the same luck as me with finding decent colour morphs it may take a while. Damn UK Zoo's

 

[@ombomb]

You get some good one's come up on ebay, but i agree, the ones you see in shops are ALWAYS brown IME.