Black and White

[Travis L. Stevens]

Thanks for the info. Any others willing to comment? Anyone have any good suggestions on where to find these items? Ya, ya, I know..."The Ocean", duh :lol: What are good places to purchase them from?

 

[mike89t]

Schooling Bannerfish:

You can buy them from here:

http://www.vividaquariums.com/10Expand.asp?ProductCode=01-1813-S

Be careful if you get them somewhere else. The Longfin Bannerfish looks almost identical and isn't reef safe.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

I don't know about that place. Nice and all, but those are the same prices as my LFS and I can view my purchase before hand. Any other places those out there prefer?

 

[Micki]

http://premiumaquatics.com/ is good.

 

[new2u]

what about the dragon sea moth? It'd work well http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=2224 also, i perfer liveaquaria or marinedepot live

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

Thanks, that's an awesome little critter. I'll have to do a little research for knowledge sake

 

[Darold]

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

*whimper* I love those guys, and I don't even own them...

 

[geekreef_05]

The idol is awesome...there is also the similar henichoius black and white butterfly fish.

cool tank idea, post pics when ur done!

happy reefin'

 

[nam2212]

I have a Striped Dottyback in my nano. He is black and white and has tons of personality. Also, I have tons of black and white cerith snails. I get them from the LFS in the LR tanks. They come in on the Marshall Island rock and are great in a clean-up crew.

http://www.etropicals.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=41&pCatId=1320

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

That's not a bad looking dottyback. Thank's for posting. That's definitely going to be in the consideration box. As far as the moorish idol or heinochus butterfly, that's going to be a little too large of a fish for what im planning on.

 

[Darold]

This guy might eat SPS, but if you don't plan on keeping B/W SPS, then check him out:

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1752

A little more interesting than a simple Nass snail.

 

[jenlovesty]

There was a tank at the South Florida FMAS show last month that was all black and white. Looked Awesome. Please post pics when you get it started.

 

[keckles]

Coralline algae and detritus will be your biggest enemies.

Good luck :thumbsup:

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

But that is what the longspined urching and nassarius snails are for.

 

[keckles]

Nice :thumbsup:

 

[NeilPearson]

Killer Whale
Penguin
Polar Bear

 

[Tammy3770]

you know what I think would be cool?
well if you picked a third color like bright red, yellow, or green to dot around the tank it would be really eye catching and give you a few more choices like for yellow get a yellow sun polyp and a yellow gorgonian and have the rest of the tank B/W
or for red get that chillie pepper coral and some nice red mushrooms

that's what i think would be really cool

 

[Darold]

I agree with tammy. In my B/w Tank, I think I may eventually add a Halloween Hermit crab, and/or a red headed goby just to make it really pop-out.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

I thought about doing that, but I decided that the coralline algae that the urchin doesn't eat will be a very nice touch of purples and reds and pinks and such. I do have a question on corals though. I would like to broaden my horizon on "black" corals. I'm looking for actual black corals like the Black Sun Coral at the beginning of this post and more. If not black, how about very deeply colored corals. There was a Galaxea coral that I had found once that was so deep colored it was almost black. In fact, I don't even know what the color was. It may have been a deep green but the contrasting white tips made it look definitely black. Does anyone know of any toadstools that are white? Or Black? I currently have this as easy to find definite corals.

Black Sun Coral
White Red Sea Pom Pom Xenia
White Bubble Coral