Another Venustus Thread

[caribfan]

Hey Gris, good to hear from you.

I have actually varied a bit from my prazi schedule as I was expecting some new arrivals and wanted to expedite things with the Venustus to free up some quarantine space. The new arrivals didn't end up being available.

I did one dose, waited 5 days, did a large water change and redosed on the same day, effectively completing two doses in 10 days. The bottle says not to dose more than every three.

At this point, their appetites are probably 80% back to normal and I am very seriously considering introducing these fish in my DT. I had intentions of doing three rounds of prazi, but there have been no signs of any disease, ich or fluke related, and with reaction to the prazi on the last round, I'm hesitant to start another treatment.

They have been in quarantine since 7/23, 46 days and counting.

 

[caribfan]

All right, I decided to add to the DT. I've got a light week coming up and figured it was good timing.

I'll take a video tonight if they settle in well.

 

[caribfan]

Terrible quality and funky lighting, but you can see how they kind of hang together. They seem to be happy with some live rock and caves to cruise.

 

[o2manyfish]

Awesome to see the 3 hanging out.

My two have been spending much more time together. I find them "paired" and hanging together in different areas of the tank. They don't sit still to often to see if there is any difference in finnage between them. And mine are similar sized so I can't tell them apart.

One is out and about the majority of the time, and the other just appears, they hang for a bit, and then the second one slide back into the rock work and the first one goes back to cruising the tank.

Dave B

 

[caribfan]

Finally got this bunch moved into my Display Tank, the three Venustus and the Octofasciatus are the first fish to go into this tank.

I've been waiting almost a year and a half to get this tank up and running, from here on out, I will try to chronical these fish in my build thread. I'll post a link in this thread once that's been created.

 

[pktech]

Finally got this bunch moved into my Display Tank, the three Venustus and the Octofasciatus are the first fish to go into this tank.

I've been waiting almost a year and a half to get this tank up and running, from here on out, I will try to chronical these fish in my build thread. I'll post a link in this thread once that's been created.

That's an awesome tank & a great choice of fish - the Octo is awesome! Looks healthy & confident. Keep updates comin'

 

[caribfan]

Thanks, I'm pretty happy with it. The octo was actually looking a little thin to me so I have in increased my feedings. I was busy with work and had only been feeding twice a day. He's finally starting to go after pellets too, and the two bigger Venustus both eat pellets.

May be time for an auto feeder.

 

[SteelMastiff]

Looking good, congrats on their move to the DT.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Looking good, glad that they are in the DT now.


For my pair, the larger one didn't make it. It never really took to prepared foods. Moved them to my 75 in hopes that there would be more food for it to find on the rocks --- for a while there it looked like it was putting on some weight, but went out of town for a weekend and never saw it again.

The smaller one on the other hand is doing great, eats like a pig and is out as much as I would expect a Venustus to be out --- but always comes out to eat. Watching it right now swimming around picking at the rocks.

The 75 will be taken down in the next month or two, and this guy will be swimming in a new 210, which will be delivered in 8 days.

 

[caribfan]

Hey Todd,

Sorry to hear about your bigger one.

I am enjoying these fish so much, I'm tempted to not add the rest of my fish to my 240. I'm going painfully slow as I have about 7 or 8 other fish to add to my tank still that are in my holding tanks.

Will you try another one to form a pair?

I would love to see spawning activity from my trio, I'm not completely sure what that looks like though.l

 

[Toddrtrex]

Hey Todd,

Sorry to hear about your bigger one.

I am enjoying these fish so much, I'm tempted to not add the rest of my fish to my 240. I'm going painfully slow as I have about 7 or 8 other fish to add to my tank still that are in my holding tanks.

Will you try another one to form a pair?

I would love to see spawning activity from my trio, I'm not completely sure what that looks like though.l

Thanks, it was tough to come home to a solo fish.

Once the new 210 is up and running, I may try to find another one. Years ago I had a pair of Potter's that had just started to show nightly spawning behavior when I lost them (( main pump fail while in the hospital for emergency back surgery )). So, I would like to see that happen again.

 

[caribfan]

For anybody interested in these fish, they are now being documented in this thread.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2444122&highlight=another+venustus