Hi
I’m hoping for some advice on adding gammarus to my 120l pea puffer tank.
Am I crazy to consider adding these to a planted tank? Are they going to destroy the plants? How fast are they? Will puffers be able to keep the population under control?
If they are OK to add which type are best and can someone point me at a good source?
Can I grow them in a bin like the daphnia? I’m assuming they’d need their own or the daphnia would be snacks. I’m going to set up a snails bin when I can get a decent number of tiny pond snails. The fussy puffers aren’t keen on ramshorns.
Can snails and gammarus go in together?
The tank is home to 10 young pea puffers and four ottos that I failed to catch when I rehomed my larger fish. There are a couple of cherry shrimp in there too. Think they hitched a lift in the net when I brought the Amazon Frogbit over from the other tank.
Low tech setup with grassy soft leaved planta like blyxa, vallis, dwarf sag covering 75% of the substrate
It is a dirted tank capped with a thin layer of fine gravel then an inch of sand.
Thanks
I’m hoping for some advice on adding gammarus to my 120l pea puffer tank.
Am I crazy to consider adding these to a planted tank? Are they going to destroy the plants? How fast are they? Will puffers be able to keep the population under control?
If they are OK to add which type are best and can someone point me at a good source?
Can I grow them in a bin like the daphnia? I’m assuming they’d need their own or the daphnia would be snacks. I’m going to set up a snails bin when I can get a decent number of tiny pond snails. The fussy puffers aren’t keen on ramshorns.
Can snails and gammarus go in together?
The tank is home to 10 young pea puffers and four ottos that I failed to catch when I rehomed my larger fish. There are a couple of cherry shrimp in there too. Think they hitched a lift in the net when I brought the Amazon Frogbit over from the other tank.
Low tech setup with grassy soft leaved planta like blyxa, vallis, dwarf sag covering 75% of the substrate
It is a dirted tank capped with a thin layer of fine gravel then an inch of sand.
Thanks