It is pretty easy as it is a full ecological system and therefore keeps itself very healthy and easy to maintain. Does not require a filter for example as the mud acts as a natural filter. The occasional water change , but mostly its just topping up the water that evaporates and cleaning the glass from some algae growth that the snails miss and spashed up mud from the muddies..
Do you do anything to the water that's removed during low tide? In the real world the water coming back in would have been mixed with different brackish/saltwater and have different organics and nutrients.
ive wanted to do something like this for quite some time and the only way ive been able to make it work is with 2 pumps on timers that click every 8 hours for about 60min each how did u do it?
But actually I was wondering the same thing, I'm doing a red claw crab tank and I want to make it as close to a mangrove habitat as possible. I wanna find the wood, especially since it's the closest I've seen to resemble the roots of a mangrove tree.
with the timelapse you can really see how the creatures inside (especially crabs) tend to move around and around, back and forth doing almost always the same path. I just wonder how much this can be frustrating for a living creature...at the end of the day, they are just made for open space and freedom, not for cages. Just my thoughts
Thanks. This kind of habitat set up would work great for fiddler crabs and red claws, which I used to keep in set ups like this living overseas. However, now Im currently keep a native mud crab from NZ. They are great to help with algae control and eating any dead stuff or left overs. No other crabs are on the market here, sadly.
@@matlarsweta thanks for your reply. i know that problem. here in germany you can buy some species but not all im interested in. i am breeding geosesarma 'black leg' and also keep a tuerkayana magnum (discoplax magna) and some mrtasesarma obesum sp. emerald. but hell... i want some fiddlercrabs in a mangrove tank. but its so hard to get them here...
This is genius and amazing! How often do you change the water? I would suspect you only change the water from the main water reservoir thus everytime the tide comes in, they have fresh clean water rather than old dirty water?
As this is quite warm water 28 c, it evaporates quickly, so constant top up is needed ontop of the fortnightly water change. Salt dont evaporate though. So the top up is just fresh water. The water change water is made up brackish.
