Cool water detritus eaters
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:21 pm
Hi. Complete newbie here.
I have an odd question, it's not really a pond question, but I'm unsure where else to ask.
I have a cool-water fish tank (about 70-72degF) in which I keep catfish and goldfish. All fingerling size. I need a detritus eater - a crayfish or something similar, but when I go to a fish store, all they have are tropicals.
This is for my aquaponics (http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/) setup.
Snails will foul my pump, but I'm open to algae eating fish, crustacean, whatever. I'd prefer to be able to get it (them?) in the twin cities area.
This is a 55gal tank, so it needs to stay fairly small, and fresh-water, and may have up to 3ppt salt (although right now it only has a trace from sea salt I added for trace minerals.)
Any suggestions?
When I was a kid in a different northern state, we used to catch crawdads at the local pond. I'm happy to do that too, if someone can point me to a place to do it. I'm totally not in touch with the crawfish set here in the Twin Cities.
I have an odd question, it's not really a pond question, but I'm unsure where else to ask.
I have a cool-water fish tank (about 70-72degF) in which I keep catfish and goldfish. All fingerling size. I need a detritus eater - a crayfish or something similar, but when I go to a fish store, all they have are tropicals.
This is for my aquaponics (http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/) setup.
Snails will foul my pump, but I'm open to algae eating fish, crustacean, whatever. I'd prefer to be able to get it (them?) in the twin cities area.
This is a 55gal tank, so it needs to stay fairly small, and fresh-water, and may have up to 3ppt salt (although right now it only has a trace from sea salt I added for trace minerals.)
Any suggestions?
When I was a kid in a different northern state, we used to catch crawdads at the local pond. I'm happy to do that too, if someone can point me to a place to do it. I'm totally not in touch with the crawfish set here in the Twin Cities.