A short video of my ORA Orchid Dottybacks

[thetedinator]

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[philtheso]

Holy xenia!

 

[coralreefjunkie]

Holy xenia!

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[o2manyfish]

Everything looks great!

 

[thetedinator]

Everything looks great!

Thanks Dave. I shot the video under natural sunlight.

I added the 3 Fridmanis and for two weeks only saw 1. Then I saw 2 at once so I knew at least 2 were alive. A few days after that I saw all 3. Interestingly my Indigo Dottyback seems to be courting 1 of the Fridmani.

 

[dodgerblew]

Really nice Ted

 

[thetedinator]

Thanks Rik.

 

[Browncoat]

Really neat, thanks for sharing. I'd love to have a big enough system like yours at some point to observe some of these group behaviors. Maybe you'll get some spawning action. =)

 

[sjet]

Where did you find these? I can never find them at my LFS.

 

[thetedinator]

Where did you find these? I can never find them at my LFS.

Online. "you" nique corals. Others have them as well.

 

[dodgerblew]

LiveAquaria has them on sale right now

 

[Joe Kelley]

Cool Ted!

 

[thetedinator]

LiveAquaria has them on sale right now

Nice.

 

[Jamie1210]

This is awesome! Hope it works out long-term for you. I tried this last year with 5 in my 135 and over the course of 5 months, I was left with one. I never actually witnessed any fighting but they always all had torn fins. Now that I'm left with just 1, he's in perfect shape. I'm assuming they fought a lot in the rocks out of view.

Anyways, please update this thread later down the line. Fingers crossed it works out for you!

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[thetedinator]

This is awesome! Hope it works out long-term for you. I tried this last year with 5 in my 135 and over the course of 5 months, I was left with one. I never actually witnessed any fighting but they always all had torn fins. Now that I'm left with just 1, he's in perfect shape. I'm assuming they fought a lot in the rocks out of view.

Anyways, please update this thread later down the line. Fingers crossed it works out for you!

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So far so good. My tank is 240g so there is lots of space. They have been in the system almost 1 month with no torn fins, etc. My Indigo Dottyback chases them a little and seems to be courting 1 of them, but again, no torn fins, all active and eating.