I'm in need of advice. I'm going to be starting a 10 gal tank for culturing pods and other lil' critters. I'm doing this because I don't have a sump on either tank and this would be much cheaper than investing in the needed overflows and such for a sump. I have everything I need to do this....if it will work. My thoughts are as follows.
I'll get 10 or 12 quart canning jars and put a lil' live sand and a lil' rubble rock in each then place them in the 10 gallon tank. The water level will end up a couple inches, or so, above the lip of the jars and I'll have a small powerhead for circulation. I realize I may not get a lot of circulation within each jar and I don't know if that's good or bad for the critters. On each of my 2 tanks, I've got AquaClear 300s that I converted into "mini-fuges." I've got a good amount of Chaeto growing in each one. I'll pull a few pieces of the Chaeto apart and seed each jar with some. The live sand will also be coming out of my established tank that has a lil' too much sand in it already. After everything is up and running, and I start to see some pod populations, I would add a tiny pinch of food to each jar every few days or so. I'm still not sure how I would get the pods out of the tank to feed to the other tanks....any ideas on that? Am I better off doing all of this without including the jars? My thought was that if I include jars, I'll be less inclined to want to use this as a QT tank or to otherwise add any fish to this system. I realize that adding fish would defeat the purpose as they'd eat what I'm attempting to culture.
Okay, now for the advice. Is this a really silly idea? Am I better off going another route? The reason I'm wanting to do this is to enlarge the population of the lil' critters in my tanks and also as a food source for a Mandarin Goby. Any advice, criticism or suggestions are welcome!! Thanks all.
I'll get 10 or 12 quart canning jars and put a lil' live sand and a lil' rubble rock in each then place them in the 10 gallon tank. The water level will end up a couple inches, or so, above the lip of the jars and I'll have a small powerhead for circulation. I realize I may not get a lot of circulation within each jar and I don't know if that's good or bad for the critters. On each of my 2 tanks, I've got AquaClear 300s that I converted into "mini-fuges." I've got a good amount of Chaeto growing in each one. I'll pull a few pieces of the Chaeto apart and seed each jar with some. The live sand will also be coming out of my established tank that has a lil' too much sand in it already. After everything is up and running, and I start to see some pod populations, I would add a tiny pinch of food to each jar every few days or so. I'm still not sure how I would get the pods out of the tank to feed to the other tanks....any ideas on that? Am I better off doing all of this without including the jars? My thought was that if I include jars, I'll be less inclined to want to use this as a QT tank or to otherwise add any fish to this system. I realize that adding fish would defeat the purpose as they'd eat what I'm attempting to culture.
Okay, now for the advice. Is this a really silly idea? Am I better off going another route? The reason I'm wanting to do this is to enlarge the population of the lil' critters in my tanks and also as a food source for a Mandarin Goby. Any advice, criticism or suggestions are welcome!! Thanks all.
