Fat and Healthy Fish

[small alien]

Holy crap! Your wrasse is making me sick!

 

[melanotaenia]

Aquaknight, what has been your secret to keeping your Rock Beauty big and healthy? I always struck
Out with those guys even after weeks of quarantine and every food offered under the sun.

 

[roktsintst]

Here are a few of my fish. Some arn't rare but are FAT! They are in a 300 gallon Reef. I have had the Conspic for a few months now and it came from AquaTouch. I almost lost him from a bacterial infection but with some Maracyn 2 I was able to save him... I could see red streaks on his side and i was super scared! But he pulled through 8 weeks of QT and is now happily enjoying his Reef. He is in there with a Trio of Multibars, Venustus, Rhomboids, Resplendent Anthias Black Tang, Goldflake Angel, Regal Angel, Powder Blue Tang, Orange Shoulder, and Male Blond naso plus various others....

And some FAT Tangs...

Oh, and I feed as many times per day as I can. I try for 6-10 times with NLS thera A+ pellets that the fish all love then every evening I feed a mixture of Hikari Mysis, Spirulina Brine, SF Angel/Butterfly, Hikari Angel/Butterfly, mega marine algea soaked in Selcon, Garlic, Vitachem, and KZ immunostabilizer!

 

[Pickupman66]

Oh, and I feed as many times per day as I can. I try for 6-10 times with NLS thera A+ pellets that the fish all love then every evening I feed a mixture of Hikari Mysis, Spirulina Brine, SF Angel/Butterfly, Hikari Angel/Butterfly, mega marine algea soaked in Selcon, Garlic, Vitachem, and KZ immunostabilizer!

Now that is some feeding dedication. if I fed 6x per day, it would be like every 45 minutes that im home in teh evenings that he lights are on! Good looking fish, and that is one very fat tang.

I promised another photo or two of my fat tangs.

 

[roktsintst]

Thanks Man. Im off quite a bit so i have a lot of opportunity to feed! Fat fish make healthy, Strong fish!

 

[Pickupman66]

and if you click this, you will see why they are so hard to photograph. this is how the Naso acts after feeding and before bed time. click on it. it is a bit large, but you can see the fatties.

 

[AquaKnight]

Aquaknight, what has been your secret to keeping your Rock Beauty big and healthy? I always struck
Out with those guys even after weeks of quarantine and every food offered under the sun.

That's a tough one to answer, because I'm really not doing anything special. He gets the same food as everyone else. Hand-diced scallops are my bread and butter along with Wallyworld seaweed sheets, fed daily. He gets SF angel formula about 4x a week. Once every week or so I offer a fresh clam or three, but the other bruisers in the tank get most of them, but he gets some scraps. I vary the times I fed too. Some days might be 4x, and then I might skip a day, minus an algae sheet. My thought is that it better replicates their diet in the wild. Some days they gorge themselves, others they go hungry.


If I had to pin down why, I believe it's because I got a really small one, that was incredibly healthy. Small because from what I gather, smaller juvi angels don't have the sponge-based diet of larger angels. It's more algae based. I was worried she wouldn't take to sponge right away, and I was right, took time to get her to eat more then algae sheets and mysis, but now she eats anything. Pic of when I first got her. I also have a funky feeling, most of the Rock Beauties coming in are juiced. The trouble is finding one that isn't. Probably a reason a rarer in the wild/deeper-water Rock Beauty is only $35, when Queens and Blues are in the 100's of dollars.

 

[ShellsSD]

Here is one of my fat boys -

- How long have you had the fish?
going on 3 years

-Where you got the fish from? -
Store no longer in business

-Aquarium size?
180 Reef

-Tank Mates?
Yellow tang, copper band, wrasses (6line, hawaiin flame, yellow, green) Cardinals (bangai, pagajma) Mandarin, anthias, orchid dotties, clowns, chromis .... I think that is it

-What foods do you feed?
pellets and flake morning - frozen evenings

-How often do you feed?
2 x per day

 

[Toddrtrex]

S/he isn't as fat as I would want, but is gaining weight (( my recent back surgery slowed me down a bit )) -- my Venustus angel.
In my 58
Eats; LifeLine's Herbivore mix, Rod's food (( red, blue, and green label )), Prime Reef, and PE Mysis.
Sharing the tank with a Golden Dwarf, Coral Beauty Dwarf, mated pair of pink skunks, and a "golden" algae blenny

And while not a difficult fish, it sure is fat

Talbot's damsel.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

Fat daddy tech 6/09

I'll get a current pic this weekend as these are all old....I'll go up against anyone who has the fatest PBT..I hae a male that is almost 2" wide, had him 2 years and only about 6.5" long:lmao: My sohal dwarfs even him though!!!

 

[Western_reefer]

Oh man, all these large fish are making me want a big tank again. lol:fun4:

 

[Western_reefer]

My 8-9 inch Brown-Eared Surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm or Acanthurus nigricauda) before the tank cracked. Sold him to a local, not sure if hes still alive. Never seen anyone els keep this kind of Surgeon Fish. Was my most favorite fish in the tank.

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[tcmfish]

Western, not doubting the health of the fish, but that tang isn't very fat at all. You can see a pinch in the stomach.

 

[Western_reefer]

Western, not doubting the health of the fish, but that tang isn't very fat at all. You can see a pinch in the stomach.

Those pictures were taken when I first got the him. I do have more recent photos of it where it is fat, but the picture isn't so great.

 

[Western_reefer]

Here is a before and after picture of a piece of fish food. lol Pictures were taken a few hours apart.
Before.

After.

 

[tcmfish]

I'm sure it was. The tank and other fish look great, and you seem to take good care of stuff. Just stating the fish wasn't fat in the pics, no harm intended :beer:

 

[Mark]

- How long have you had the fish?

3-4 years

-Where you got the fish from?

Online

-Aquarium size?

180 gallon

-Tank Mates?

mimic tang, convict tang, percula clowns, starki damsel, swalesi basset, mandarin, potters angelfish

-What foods do you feed?

Spectrum pellets, homemade frozen, spirulina

-How often do you feed?

1-2 times a day

 

[Western_reefer]

I'm sure it was. The tank and other fish look great, and you seem to take good care of stuff. Just stating the fish wasn't fat in the pics, no harm intended :beer:

Thanks. He was hard to keep fat tho, that's for sure. I fed 3 times per day, 1 lb of meaty home made fish food would last 1 month or so. If I miss a few feedings, he would get thin. Probably because he was so large/active...

 

[Pickupman66]

wow, that is Piranha like on that fish bone!!!

 

[flying_dutchman]

It's awesome to see so much fat and healthy fish.
But there are some fish in this thread that are simply obese e.a the Talbot's damsel (no offence toddtrex) and that is properly not a good thing either.
IMHO