I am thinking of starting an anchialine tank. Not a lot of species of course; the vegetarian red opaeula shrimp (Halocaridina rubra), lava live rock, and I'm not sure what else.
Can anyone tell me, what is the species of snail that is found in anchialine pools? As far as I know there is just one species. They might be rare, protected, and not available for aquaria, in which case does anyone have a substitute to suggest? Needs to tolerate temperature range of 18C to 25C. Opaeula are tolerant of a very large range of salinities from 2 to 36 ppt so the snail or the plants or other biota for this tank can decide what the salinity should be.
I don't know anything about the proper anchialine pool plants. Possibly there are't any (apart from algae of course)? I say "proper" anchialine pool plants because there are some invasive ones that get in there but aren't native to the systems. Maybe some alien ones would be nice in an aquarium, though. Any suggestions?
Anchialine corals?
If I can't put together an attractive tank with legitimate anchialine species, I still want to use masses of the little red opaeula shrimp as a major focus of a tank. I would want something blue in there to contrast them; a blue sea star or a blue coral? And a few little yellow cave gobies maybe. Black lava rock. Some kind of seagrass, one of the deeper green kinds, not the pale yellowish olive green kinds. Other corals....?Am I imagining stuff that can't possibly work together?
Would be grateful for observations and pointers .
Can anyone tell me, what is the species of snail that is found in anchialine pools? As far as I know there is just one species. They might be rare, protected, and not available for aquaria, in which case does anyone have a substitute to suggest? Needs to tolerate temperature range of 18C to 25C. Opaeula are tolerant of a very large range of salinities from 2 to 36 ppt so the snail or the plants or other biota for this tank can decide what the salinity should be.
I don't know anything about the proper anchialine pool plants. Possibly there are't any (apart from algae of course)? I say "proper" anchialine pool plants because there are some invasive ones that get in there but aren't native to the systems. Maybe some alien ones would be nice in an aquarium, though. Any suggestions?
Anchialine corals?
If I can't put together an attractive tank with legitimate anchialine species, I still want to use masses of the little red opaeula shrimp as a major focus of a tank. I would want something blue in there to contrast them; a blue sea star or a blue coral? And a few little yellow cave gobies maybe. Black lava rock. Some kind of seagrass, one of the deeper green kinds, not the pale yellowish olive green kinds. Other corals....?Am I imagining stuff that can't possibly work together?
Would be grateful for observations and pointers .
