Difficult and Special Care Species List

I agree with about 90% of this list of fish except. I have a princess parrotfish in my 265 FOWLR and have had her for over year with great success she eats well and has great color and temperment. I aslo have a clown tang that I bought with the parrot it was the size of a small clownfish when i got it i did keep it in QT for a few months due to the ich issue but now in the 265 it is doing great eats well and has not shown any aggression but this may be due to the size of the other tank mates the kole tang blue morph are 3 times her size and let her know it from time to time I hope this trend continues as she grows larger. just my 2 cents
 
this is a great list for reefers to follow..one fish mentioned that will often starve to death is the diamond goby (valenciennea). I have had 6 of these ; three jumped out of my tankwhich is completely covered with glass now after learning they can jump thru eggcrate. my last one jumped out during the hurricane. i had proped the cover a little to allow my battery operated pump to keep oxygen flowing. two starved to death even though i have tons of pods available. last nite while feeding corals my sixth one that has been in tank over three months now and does eat frozen mysis,bloodworms etc. actually ate food out of my pipette. talk about extreme opposites. he sucked the food down like it was a straw.
 
Neat viewed this fella yesterday at our LPS Nautilus, curious if anyone has one, I've only caught a glimpse of these at large aquariums. Im giving a guess of info to party as you can hear, meanwhile a short clip. Dang he's cool.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwoeo0jhEw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Minimum I know looked up and this 400 million prehistoric frequents deeper waters tho rises to reef level for feeding and use to cooler temps, sure a challenge to keep one of these.

And the price was less than $40, thought it would be alot more !
 
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It's something that I would pick up and refine edit every now and then over the course of several years, the original list was something I came up with over a weekend, but it has had many changes since the original. Thanks for the compliment!
 
hi reefers :) ,

I buyed 4 Camel/Mechanical Shrimp's , with the idea that they would clean up my DT from hairalgea , little did i knew that they where not reefsafe :facepalm:
They leave my acro's alone but zoa's , lps and fungia are suffering ( zoa's are already eaten) !!

-What is the best way to remove them out of the DT ?
Are there any fish that eat them (and leave the rest alone) ?

greetingzz tntneon :)
 
Great job! I have a few sucess stroies though. Sweetlips (clown) I have tried twice and have no luck! Ribbon eels. Had 2 for over a year. Hard to feed. takes a lot of effort. But I kept them just fine. Died to a clown trigger tearing them up slowly. horshoe crabs. Have 2 for months now. no issues. leapored wrasse, no issues. Linka starfish is almost impossible to get a good one. tried tons of times.
 
Frost3839 said:
Great job! I have a few sucess stroies though. Sweetlips (clown) I have tried twice and have no luck! Ribbon eels. Had 2 for over a year. Hard to feed. takes a lot of effort. But I kept them just fine. Died to a clown trigger tearing them up slowly. horshoe crabs. Have 2 for months now. no issues. leapored wrasse, no issues. Linka starfish is almost impossible to get a good one. tried tons of times.
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Thanks for the kind words!

I wouldn't constitute keeping ribbon eels or horseshoe crabs for anything under several years a success. Horseshoe crabs alone don't reach maturity until about 10 years old and can live up to 4 decades. They also gow quicte large. So, one way or another a horseshoe crab is going to have a shortened life in all but the most specialized of institutional tanks.

Leopard wrasses are one of those that can be quite easy once you get over the initial hump. However, for every one that makes it over that hump that are probably several that perish within a month of being collected. I have two leopards that I've had for several years now. It makes me feel a little guilty that I've contributed to more being collected for the trade, but they're some of my favorite fish.
 
tntneon said:
hi reefers :) ,

I buyed 4 Camel/Mechanical Shrimp's , with the idea that they would clean up my DT from hairalgea , little did i knew that they where not reefsafe :facepalm:
They leave my acro's alone but zoa's , lps and fungia are suffering ( zoa's are already eaten) !!

-What is the best way to remove them out of the DT ?
Are there any fish that eat them (and leave the rest alone) ?

greetingzz tntneon :)
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I'm sure you've already fihured this out, but you're not going to find any shrimp predator that will be very selective in the their shrimp and general crustacean diet.
 
I found the secret of keeping clown sweetlips the hard way. I have found the only food they eat is live grass shrimp that I can get by the thousands in the summer.
I don't really want to keep them alive all winter though.
 
This helped me out a lot thank you! Do you know anything about the Lieutenant Tang (Acanthurus tennenti) or the Pakistan Butterflyfish (Chaetodon collare)?
 
Pretty cool to see this thread have over 100,000 views!

Jackie, A tennenti is pretty parasite prone like many Acanthurus. Give them plenty of swimming room (at least a 180 or similar) and be sure to quarantime and they're pretty middle of the road hardiness wise compared to other tangs.

As for the butterfly, not in a reef and only if eating and if you're willing to deal with a possibly finicky eater.
 
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