Hey everyone, so I just started up my first vivarium (aquarium/terrarium) with a couple vietnamese mudskippers (freshwater raised). I set them up in a little 16x8x10tall(inches) tank with a heater underneath the water side (and two basking rocks) as well as a full-spectrum plant light. I was also given a couple underwater plants and tiny lilypads.
My first mistake was not having a filter and putting guppies in with the spaghum moss island. Now I have the smallest underwater filter I could buy, which the skippers seem to love to sunbath on and beside... (I hope to make it more discreet in the future)...
As I said, at first I had put in an island of spaghum moss that sucked up 1/2 the water and also (I think) caused an unbalance in the water that killed the guppies
. I learned that you should have the moss on rocks OUT of the water, and readjusted the tank (and got that filter just to be safe).
So I was thinking of getting some feeder (gold)fish to help mix up the water or something (their poop adds nitrates?) (a friend recommended)...
Any pointers/advice? These mudskippers lived friendly with minnows before (and ate crickets)... so I hope to have them living with guppies and eating crickets (and maybe baby guppies if I can get them breeding)... have one small male and two large females (maybe only gonna put the females in)... or else maybe I'll just breed them seperately, I dunno yet... I'm new at this so any feedback appreciated.
My first mistake was not having a filter and putting guppies in with the spaghum moss island. Now I have the smallest underwater filter I could buy, which the skippers seem to love to sunbath on and beside... (I hope to make it more discreet in the future)...
As I said, at first I had put in an island of spaghum moss that sucked up 1/2 the water and also (I think) caused an unbalance in the water that killed the guppies
. I learned that you should have the moss on rocks OUT of the water, and readjusted the tank (and got that filter just to be safe). So I was thinking of getting some feeder (gold)fish to help mix up the water or something (their poop adds nitrates?) (a friend recommended)...
Any pointers/advice? These mudskippers lived friendly with minnows before (and ate crickets)... so I hope to have them living with guppies and eating crickets (and maybe baby guppies if I can get them breeding)... have one small male and two large females (maybe only gonna put the females in)... or else maybe I'll just breed them seperately, I dunno yet... I'm new at this so any feedback appreciated.
