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What Tang Shell Dweller To Breed??

Started by fishNchups, Dec 01 2014 04:42 PM

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#21 fishNchups

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Posted 06 December 2014 - 07:57 PM

More shells man, the more shells the better

Too easy lucky I bought a whole bag

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#22 Westie

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Posted 06 December 2014 - 10:14 PM

Yep more shells, and make sure they are different sizes

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#23 fishNchups

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Posted 07 December 2014 - 09:36 AM

Yep more shells, and make sure they are different sizes

No worries pretty much all the shells in there are different sizes and also how many more do you reckon I need to throw in?

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#24 Westie

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Posted 07 December 2014 - 10:11 AM

how many can you fit?

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#25 Mattymak

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Posted 07 December 2014 - 10:29 AM

I cover the bottom of my shellies tanks with shells, all different sizes from small to x large lol

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#26 fishNchups

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Posted 07 December 2014 - 10:36 AM

Should be able to fit quite a few more, will see what I can do when I get home

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#27 Fox

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Posted 07 December 2014 - 06:42 PM

Masters in WA are out of stock of all shells

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#28 fishNchups

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Posted 07 December 2014 - 07:01 PM

Masters in WA are out of stock of all shells

Yeh went to Bunnings instead

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#29 fishNchups

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Posted 09 December 2014 - 05:39 PM

Hows this? tang 1.JPG 95.44KB 6 downloads

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#30 Westie

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Posted 09 December 2014 - 08:07 PM

Full sick

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#31 Riggers

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Posted 09 December 2014 - 10:00 PM

Looking good bro!!

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#32 fishNchups

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Posted 10 December 2014 - 07:10 AM

Looking good bro!!

Cheers man just needa find some fish now

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#33 ice

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Posted 10 December 2014 - 07:20 AM

Looks good dude, decided on the fish yet?

If you're going down the Occelatus track you may want to find some small limestone rocks and create some physical barriers to break the line of sight between shells & fish.

I found that our females would claim 2 or 3 shells and bury them in a territory of about 10x10cm and fiercely defend them, if the line of sight was broken another female could basically start her territory on the other side of the rock.

Otherwise you end up with battered fish and a lot of completely buried unused shells (they bury the ones they don't like or aren't going to use to get rid of habitat for territorial disputes).

We had lots of success breeding this way and it seemed to keep the aggression to a minimum even with a relatively packed tank. We had about 8 in a similarly sized tank that churned out the fry.