Ben K
11-17-2006, 01:29 AM
I haven't really set anythign up professionally yet. Usually I just add tap water, let it sit overnight, then add cheap fish to the tank before I add expenisive ones to it. I have never really had any problems with sickness or deaths.
But I am thinking of setting up a real nice lookign tank and I want to do it all professional like.
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This is the setup I am looking at. It will be a crab and fish tank. As for filters and such, I am still looking into things. any suggestions would be nice.
What I am looking for:
30-50 gallon tank. Not sure, right now leanign towards a 31 gallon tank kit. But I aso wait a bit till my job picks back up and I can go and buy a 58 gallon kit. Both kits contain stands, main reason why I want to buy a kit.
Crab contents: 2 halloween crabs, at leats 3 gold fiddle crabs, possibly other FW crabs if I can find them
Fish: unsure of yet. Possible fancy guppies
Note sure of filter, lighting, and other stuff. Like I said, this will be my first professional quality tank.
You might be able to help me with the setup of the tank as well. Do you think crabs would be smart enough to figure out how to get from the bottem of tank to the top dry land? The dry land will be 4' deep, giving the halloween crab somethign to dig in. Do you think 4" would be enough?
Also, seeing as the dry land will be blocking off any source of light from above, is there plants can live in this shadowed area? This dry area will have a surface area of 12"×8" roughly. Also, I run into the same problem with the "platform/step" in the middle of the one side of the tank. It will be about 12"×4". And the same problem with the "stairs" that go from floor to platform to platform. They will be about 3" wide I am thinking.
When thinking abotu this, I am also come up with another question. If I wish to put any plants on the "stairs" or the underwater "platform", what should they be and how deep of gravel (or whatever I use) should I have? Is 1" good enough? Also, what type of gravel do you think would be best for this type of tank?
Another thing, how would you make the surface of the "stairs" non slip so crabs won't find it hard to climb? I was thinking of either gluing a gravel or soemthing to the surface of the glass (if I use glass) stairs. I am also thinking of possible making a tray like stair, so I can put an inch of sand or soemthing for plants to be planted on stairs. If I did this, do you still think I would need to glue a layer of gravel to the glass?
Okay, so a refresh for this post. Here are the questions I have:
1) Do you think crabs will be smart enough to find their way from bottem of tank to dry land at top?
2) Will a 3" 'stair' be large enough for a full grown halloween crab or will he tend to fall off due to be too large? (Not sure how large they become at full size)
3) Will a deepness of 4" of sand on the dry land area be enough for halloween crab to borrow in?
4) Will a area of 8"×12" be enough dry land for two full grown halloween crabs?
5) How would you make the surface of the stairs not slippery so that crabs can climb it? Would you glue gravel or would making a tray like stair(so that sand or gravel doesn't fall out) would be enough? If I go tray style, should I still glue a layer of gravel to glass stairs?
6) Whats the best type of glue to use? Silicon or something?
7) Are there any plants that would fair well in a location where they wouldn't get much light due to a stair or platform above them? What about on the stairs, which will plenty of light, what would fair there?
8) On the bottem of the tank, how deep should sand or gravel be?
9) What is the best planting sand or gravel that would work in my type of tank?
10) Do you think the setup of my tank in the picture will work or will it make to much of a hassle? Is their another more creative way of making stairs for crabs to get to higher parts of tanks? I was thinking of possibly making a custom background for the tank with stairs built into it, but unsure of how I would do this and if climbing back and forth on one wall of the tank would be harder then circling along the edge of the tank.
Thanks in advance for any help.
But I am thinking of setting up a real nice lookign tank and I want to do it all professional like.
[Only Registered Users Can See Links.]
This is the setup I am looking at. It will be a crab and fish tank. As for filters and such, I am still looking into things. any suggestions would be nice.
What I am looking for:
30-50 gallon tank. Not sure, right now leanign towards a 31 gallon tank kit. But I aso wait a bit till my job picks back up and I can go and buy a 58 gallon kit. Both kits contain stands, main reason why I want to buy a kit.
Crab contents: 2 halloween crabs, at leats 3 gold fiddle crabs, possibly other FW crabs if I can find them
Fish: unsure of yet. Possible fancy guppies
Note sure of filter, lighting, and other stuff. Like I said, this will be my first professional quality tank.
You might be able to help me with the setup of the tank as well. Do you think crabs would be smart enough to figure out how to get from the bottem of tank to the top dry land? The dry land will be 4' deep, giving the halloween crab somethign to dig in. Do you think 4" would be enough?
Also, seeing as the dry land will be blocking off any source of light from above, is there plants can live in this shadowed area? This dry area will have a surface area of 12"×8" roughly. Also, I run into the same problem with the "platform/step" in the middle of the one side of the tank. It will be about 12"×4". And the same problem with the "stairs" that go from floor to platform to platform. They will be about 3" wide I am thinking.
When thinking abotu this, I am also come up with another question. If I wish to put any plants on the "stairs" or the underwater "platform", what should they be and how deep of gravel (or whatever I use) should I have? Is 1" good enough? Also, what type of gravel do you think would be best for this type of tank?
Another thing, how would you make the surface of the "stairs" non slip so crabs won't find it hard to climb? I was thinking of either gluing a gravel or soemthing to the surface of the glass (if I use glass) stairs. I am also thinking of possible making a tray like stair, so I can put an inch of sand or soemthing for plants to be planted on stairs. If I did this, do you still think I would need to glue a layer of gravel to the glass?
Okay, so a refresh for this post. Here are the questions I have:
1) Do you think crabs will be smart enough to find their way from bottem of tank to dry land at top?
2) Will a 3" 'stair' be large enough for a full grown halloween crab or will he tend to fall off due to be too large? (Not sure how large they become at full size)
3) Will a deepness of 4" of sand on the dry land area be enough for halloween crab to borrow in?
4) Will a area of 8"×12" be enough dry land for two full grown halloween crabs?
5) How would you make the surface of the stairs not slippery so that crabs can climb it? Would you glue gravel or would making a tray like stair(so that sand or gravel doesn't fall out) would be enough? If I go tray style, should I still glue a layer of gravel to glass stairs?
6) Whats the best type of glue to use? Silicon or something?
7) Are there any plants that would fair well in a location where they wouldn't get much light due to a stair or platform above them? What about on the stairs, which will plenty of light, what would fair there?
8) On the bottem of the tank, how deep should sand or gravel be?
9) What is the best planting sand or gravel that would work in my type of tank?
10) Do you think the setup of my tank in the picture will work or will it make to much of a hassle? Is their another more creative way of making stairs for crabs to get to higher parts of tanks? I was thinking of possibly making a custom background for the tank with stairs built into it, but unsure of how I would do this and if climbing back and forth on one wall of the tank would be harder then circling along the edge of the tank.
Thanks in advance for any help.