Tidal Mudflat Aquarium - mudskippers
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2012
- This is a tidal mudflat aquarium that I have designed to try and get my mudskipper pair to reproduce. As this species inhabits mudflats that are innundated 2 times a day, I have had to recreate this environment. The substrate is fine silty mud that has formed annoxic layers. The mudskippers (male) digs a "j" shaped burrow into the mud, carries air into the terminal end and then the pair lay their eggs within the air bubble. This video shows the tank going from "low tide" to "high tide"
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The archer fish is like " Bro, wtf are you doing?"
Right
Tank is AWESOME. But hopefully you will ad more drift wood and rocks for the mudskippers to land on when the tide comes in. Mudskippers spend more time out of the water than in. Good job.
the Archerfish was removed many moths ago when it out-grew the tank. It now lives in a 4 x 2.5 x 2.5 food aquarium with plenty of shelter.
Mudskippers can drown. There needs sand above the high water mark with more places for the skippers to stay above the water. I agree with Okiimiru this fish looks like it in distress.
Well if it is dry the burrows will collapse and this is their life in the wild
the mudskipper is like let me out of this fucking cage
I have been keeping mudskippers for years, but this is the first tank I have seen that does this flooding, love it! Care to share how you achieved this?
Easy tidal filter
It's sad how these fish is expensive everywhere else.
I'm from western India and hundreds, if not thousands, of these tiny guys are found skipping everywhere in their natural habitat along the muddy mangrove shores. Open for everyone to take home for their aquarium for free lol
Oh that's a pity. They're native here so for me it seems so unreasonable that people have to pay that much. Here if you walk along shore during a low tide, you have to be careful with every step that you don't step over 3 or 4 of them at once haha They're everywhere skipping and catching tiny baby crabs :D
Shivam Bhatt dude I too am from India specifically from Mumbai...I am a huge fan of animals....whenever I got to my aunt's place in vasai,my uncle takes me to the basis fort and then we do to a place like a dock for ships....dude there were like thousands of these mud skippers and I wanted to catch one but it is in the muk and my uncle does not allow me to go in the muck......I also seen them when I went to water kingdom...
Shivam Bhatt there 10$ in the usa
they’re not even that expensive and if they were any cheaper that would mean that someone found an even more financially rewarding way to steal them from their native habitat that you are lucky enough to live in.
The fish looks like it's in distress when high tide comes. Maybe make the ramp up to the wood dry land so it can slowly crawl away from water if it wants to?
They still a fish, only can breathe above the water only 7-8 minute
That is what happens to them in nature do you want their burrows to collapse? It will become dry them collapse
@@chairunnisa663 They spend 3 quarters of their life on land they breathe air
Nice aquarium man. I'm a little upset, because my LFS owner said that my idea of a mudflat style aquarium (non-tidal) would not work, but now I plan on redoing my tank. The tide system is incredible, great job, and although I'm fairly inexperienced in fishkeeping, and it probably doesn't mean much, I am very impressed.
Can you make a vid detailing how you built it
the archer fish can reach 30cm so get a bigger tank :D
That's one of the coolest tanks ever
nice ebb and flow style system there. great job
That's awesome dude, thanks for showing us.
They're so cuuuute
Very nice. Well done.
A fish that actually DOESN"T want to be in the water... Mudskippers are amazing
This is amazing
I like your design :0
Ur tank is cool
Nice you have a archer fish and a mudskipper!
i didn't know that having mudskipper as a pet is a thing until i watch this video wow
Thats awesome! what did you use to get the water to rise and fall?
does the aquarium smell? i'm considering getting mudskippers but if i do i want a similar subtrate as you have, but i heard it smells bad.
Hey Limnodynastes1 ! I am really inspired by the way you set up your tank, and within a few months I will probably have a mudskipper tank as well :) I am only left with one question. I am going to use mud from the mudflats of the Wadden Sea in The Netherlands. But, how did you keep your sand/mud from flowing into the water? I know you used some sort of plastig guard or whatnot, but how did you do it? Many thanks!
1:19 jumping time. Nice work with the slope.
Very nice, you've hiven me an idea as I want these with Anableos (4 eyed fish) but you could have had a gap under neath the incline so the fish could swim under neath & use the length of the Aquarium.
Brilliant. How'd you get the pumps to emulate tidal change?
How do you control anaerobic bacteria build up in the substrate?
Cool!
a few fiddler crab would be good company
and a good meal to
if you follow the video through, you will notice that there are branches above high-water mark. This was the first day the fish were in the aquarium, that this is why they look distrressed. These fish have subsequently reproduced in this set-up. I would think that this IS NOT a sign of distress.
How did you accomplish the tide?
Im australian and i find archer fish in streams in rainforests off the beach where the water is only slightly salty, hardly brackish
have Mudskippers gills?
are they able to "breathe" underwater?
do they jump outside water to respire air?
Have you bred them, I heard they burrow like 7 feet down, would be hard to replicate that, but I may be wrong.
It looks like a toilet tank. Maybe it's a similar concept.
i have questions:
Do they need heaters?
Can they be held in a 5.5 gallon tank?
How much would it cost to set up a mudskipper tank?
What do they eat?
Are they beginner pets?
And do they need salt water? Thank-you!
Can u please tell me exactly what substrate you use and how much it costs. Also how much this whole setup costs
What substrate is that? And what do pet mudskippers eat?
when did they spawn? have the babies matured yet?
Ok thank you
How do you set up brackish water..?
Did it work? have they spawned?
OK thank-you
How did you build it?
could i keep a pair of these and an archerfish in a 20 gallon?
Dude how did you make such a legit accurate environment with tidal water
Am just adding a new video showing the incoming tide. Check it out. Shows the mudskippers breeding
Limnodynastes1 oh you actually responded. Thought you was dead lol
@@coolkid7377 I am old, but not that old lol :-)
@@Limnodynastes1 lol I didnt mean it like that 😂. I meant dead as inactive on your channel :p
@@coolkid7377 all good. Am now doing some really interesting things with several mudskipper species (including Webbers Mudskipper), so watch this space. Cheers :-)
in my country its common.... but its nice to breed and kip one as a pet
Lmao dude that skipper was crazy
how did the watter change levels?
How did you get the mud
I would love to have a mudskipper! how does one go about purchasing them?
Is That Ocean/ Salt Water?
What do you feed them
What water is this exactly?
Dude wats the measurements for the tank? Sick tank btw.. I hav a skipper I caught myself, hes in a 20 gallon and gonna upgrade to a larger tank :P
Is that an archerfish
what types of food he eats ? where u got this sand ?
it eats mostly insects and small creatures that can fit on it mouth
ok thank you
They need more available land when tidal, that's why it's jumping about. The drown without land
how is that tank adding water by itself
+Joey Weidig There's fish walking on land, and your worried about the water level rising?
TonyGAMING i agree. Keeping mudskippers is not easy. You need to mimic the high tide and low tide of its actual habitant too.
+Joey Weidig It is really just a filtration system, one side of the tank's PVC gives water and the other side takes water, creating a cycle when the tide raises.
@@vanwangye not really
they have a pump in a sump hooked to a timer. when the time is right the pump activates and water enters. when the time insup the pump stops and the water overflows back into the sump. what you need is a really big sump tho
Where is the other mudskipper?
are you using destiled water? ore spring water. any wather that is not tap water?
any water that doesn't contain chlorine and doesn't have much salt . to recreate an estuary habitay
any water that doesn't contain chlorine and doesn't have much salt . to recreate an estuary habitay
How u do that
howd the water level rise
Are mudskippers freshwater?
Narendra Gunawan yea
aah. nice. how is he? update?
tank is 2.5 foot long, 1 foot wide and 2 food high.
Limnodynastes1 "And 2 food high" lmao, btw great tank
Even tho I'm 6 years late.
Teh craziest jumpainya fish i had ever sen in my life.lol
0:24
Is that an Archer Fish?
I noticed the fish too. I think you are correct. Nice salt or fresh water fish.
YES IT IS!
Yes its an archer fish.
do me a favor. give that archerfish some places to hide. you can see he's frightened being in too small of a tank.
looks like a submarine
Just flooded💀
OHH Water skippers LOL>>>>
I choose you mudskipper
how zit im from south africa my wife surpised me with a mudskipper whe fel in love now i have lots og expierence with fishtank but with him so some say bw some say fw petshop1 say fw petshop2 bw well i did bw and he was alive and evrywhere the i thoaght the salt was husting him so i went with fw know hardly see him and he eats less and he is a dark coular pls help
I suggest going back to brackish, try for a slat gravity of 1.005 and use marine salts.
poor archerfish
Wtf it started freaking out
To tell you the true it dont look so happy go out side dig a hole make it look like something the mud skipper will live in and make a mub fill so the mub skipper will come out the water and be In the mud rolling around like they always do on land and see how the mud skipper react to it new home
I laughed when the mudskipper kept jumping around the water.
Holy shit that's cool!
only fish i know that tries to leave and stay out of water...need some insects and guppies swimming and breeding in there and add some more plants...they ll love u for it.
Guppies can't live in brackish water -_-
my set up was fresh water . my bad
mine also breed
but none the less great tank great vid enjoyed
posted on facebook
im moving.as soon as i get settled and put my tank up ill toutube it and link ya
REIF ISEPPIC
Yes they can. I have mine in a saltwater tank, and they breed.
REIF ISEPPIC
Mollies can
there is a sump below the tank that pumps water into the tank above (high tide), when the pump turns off, it drains to the lower level (low tide). Timers control the tide times (ie. the time that the pump turns on and off).
the plastic guard was places at a 45 degree angle under the sloping face of the bank. The set up of this tank can be found on the link below (without the spaces)
thereefuge . com. au / threads / tidal-mudflat - aquarium-mudskippers. 1744 /
they spawned last season, there is a video on this chanell that shows the recently hatched fry in the burrow. Unfortunately the fry were too small to be collected/raised. I have plans to attempt to raise them in the future using marine rotifers enriched with live phytoplankton.
the archerfish was removed many months ago as it outgrew the aquarium. It was given away to a friend who has a very large, non-tidal system brackish water system.
yes
There is ample informaiton on the net for you to research the answers to these questions. As we live on in geographically distant locations (I am located in Australia and you in Canada), I cannot accuratly answer these questions for your specific location
they are on 6 hourly timers. they a programmed to lose an hour each day
Can you explain this a little better? Are the pumps programmed like that ?what kind of pump did you use and how do you filter the water ? 2 overflows?
He wants to leave that place, he is too boring
This tank is really bad. More wood and stones should've been added.
ikr those fish really want out.
agreed. it's terrible for all the fish
I don't think so.
I live in western India and hundreds of these mudskippers are jumping all across the muddy mangrove shores. no trees, no vegetation, nothing! Just mud and tiny open puddles everywhere in their natural habitat :)