"Best of" FO's (since we don't get TOTM's)
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LukFox
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Stuart60611
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I have posted these before in other threads, but I decided I might as well add them to this incredible collection of fowlr systems. Please excuse the poor photography.
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The system is a standard 125 FOWLR which houses: Indian Trigger, Yellow Belly Dogface Puffer, Orange Tail Blue Spot Toby Puffer, Australian Harlequin Tusk, Pinkface Wrasse, One Spot Foxface, Flame Hawkfish, and Yellowtail Damsel.
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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3ojXOpa6Q
The system is a standard 125 FOWLR which houses: Indian Trigger, Yellow Belly Dogface Puffer, Orange Tail Blue Spot Toby Puffer, Australian Harlequin Tusk, Pinkface Wrasse, One Spot Foxface, Flame Hawkfish, and Yellowtail Damsel.
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I have posted these before in other threads, but I decided I might as well add them to this incredible collection of fowlr systems. Please excuse the poor photography.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3ojXOpa6Q
The system is a standard 125 FOWLR which houses: Indian Trigger, Yellow Belly Dogface Puffer, Orange Tail Blue Spot Toby Puffer, Australian Harlequin Tusk, Pinkface Wrasse, One Spot Foxface, Flame Hawkfish, and Yellowtail Damsel.
Sweet tank im thinking of doing this for my 125 with almost the exact same fish. How active is your yellow belly dogface? I ask because my lfs has a probably 6in one and it just lays around and does nothing.
Stuart60611
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Thanks. My dogface is also about 6 inches. He does his share of loafing which involves hovering under an overhang and even laying down on a rock. However, he also can get pretty active. He becomes very active when he gets hungry. As you see in the video, when he gets hungry he regularlly paces the front glass grinding his teeth as if you could almost hear him say "feed me!" Interestingly, over the last few months, he has developed some funny hunting behavior where he will patrol the substrate and blow on the sand trying to spot an invert to pick out of the sand and munch down. I feel bad when he does this b/c I know he will never have any luck, but it is cool to watch. He is a pretty curious fish who regularly enjoys cruising around and checking everything out. You definitely will not find a dogface boring. They are very expressive for just being a fish and show signs of a suprising, at least to me, degree of intelligence.
Recently and to provide some mental picture of their personality, I had a great time watching my dogface try to eat some krilll traped by the bottle where he could see the krill but could not fit his wide body between the fake coral and the bottle to get to the krill. He tried and tried, but could not get to the krill. He was persistant and eventually used his nose to roll the bottle to the left and then got to the krill. He looked really funny using his nose to roll the bottle because he did not do it in one swift stroke. He first inadvertantly rolled the bottle a bit with his nose trying to get to the krill. It was then as if you could almost see a light go on in his head where he figured out that the bottle could be rolled. He then rolled it with his nose a few inches in several strokes and got his prize. I remember wishing I had my camera charged.
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Thats too cool. The one at the lfs is not so much long but he has some serious gerth and the only time ive seen him do anything is when they put a clown trigger in the tank with him and he started swimming. Other than that he lays on the bottom. Then in another tank they have a smaller regular dogface which is really active.
I dont know which to go for i like the gold belly but it is a little to big to start off with i think cause thatl make me have to get the other tankmates big as well. Im thinking it could take a while for them to get a littler one though
I dont know which to go for i like the gold belly but it is a little to big to start off with i think cause thatl make me have to get the other tankmates big as well. Im thinking it could take a while for them to get a littler one though
bleedfire
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one of the best FO Tank i've seen so far
This tank is NOT MINE but wishing it is
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This tank is NOT MINE but wishing it is
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Stuart60611
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one of the best FO Tank i've seen so far
This tank is NOT MINE but wishing it is
I could be wrong, but it looks staged to me. Tank looks too prestine and not lived in enough to be system always up and runing. With that enormous bioload, how could it be an on going system and be so clean? There are plenty of videos of systems on youtube which later have been shown to be tanks assembled and stocked just for the video and not systems which remain on going. Also, note the club logo in the right corner.:rollface:
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Cody Ray
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Those are the exact words I said when I saw that picture.
Starting a 55 gallon fowlr in a couple weeks. Basically the only things missing are rock, sand and lighting :spin1: Thinking I want to do all caribbean/gulf of mexico species.
Pallobi : just because you see a picture of a "severely over-stocked" tank doesn't mean you have a green light to less severely overstock yours. I don't think your tank is overstocked, but if you really do, then i dont' see the morality of trying to justify it by saying someone else out there is doing worse.
Aesthetically the only thing i have against heavily-stocked tank is it's unnatural-look .. almost like a seafood holding tank than a slice of the ocean.
Aesthetically the only thing i have against heavily-stocked tank is it's unnatural-look .. almost like a seafood holding tank than a slice of the ocean.
i dont feel my tank is overstocked at all... would my fish list and equipment show i am? i hope not, i dont feel it is at all, though i hope to have a 6' tank by spring... though saying that one is severely overstocked is very very true... i dont have to agree with it, alot of people here have great fowlr's... but that one jus silly... i wouldnt look at mine and say it is "less severely overstocked"... i have been in this hobby for quite some time, i wouldnt look at something like that and becuz of it, assume i can overstock anything in any way in my own tank... sorry if you feel mine maybe overstocked... in my experience, as i clean and maintain home and business tanks for many people as my own side business, and it is definatly NOT an understatement to say these folks are ignorant and cruel to animals... i look at a tank like that and feel the same way i do about many of the tanks i see on the regular... dont get me wrong, i feel the fact that these animals are even taken from the ocean pretty cruel, however i look at the animals i chose to take in as having a much better chance at a decent life being within my own care... but to do something like previously shown, is jus disturbing, i am sorry if my opinion sounds clouded or unreasonable to u...
mattsilvester
Team RC
I would say there are 3 ways a tank can be "over stocked" (well there are many more I suspect, but 3 mains ways):
1. Putting too many fish in a tank, period.
2. Placing an individual fish in a tank which is too small - regardless of how many tank mates it has.
3.Putting incompatible fish together regardless of points 1 and 2.
I would not say your tank is over stocked, so long as the fish are not approaching their max sizes, or outwardly fighting ..... I doubt either is the case from the tone of your post...... so yeah, no sweat on the stocking I would say
geaux xman
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awesome tank SD guy, what are the dimensions of your tank?
Got pictures later than expected because it became evident the regals had internal parasites (they're better now). Didn't want to take a tank shot without them in it. Of course they didn't end up in the photo anyway haha.
Basically want to smack myself for not noticing the dirty back glass (cleaned it after this was taken), but the cherubs about to spawn made it too cool not to post...
Shots of some of the fish:
Fish list:
1 harlequin tusk
2 yellow longnose butterflies
4 cherub angels
2 regal angels
1 McCosker's flasher wrasse
Still working on it. Have some hardy corals in QT and want to add a couple new types of macro to the mix eventually.
This is absolutely awesome... nicest fowlr I have seen. Period
