My fatties

[jjk_reef00]

Holy cow... I just found one of my old videos from late March of how small the clown tang used to be.

http://youtu.be/knBgfFw8gkM

Wow look at him eat, no wonder he has grown so big.
Do you still have the queen trigger?
How would you compare the queen trigger to your old goldenheart?

 

[Reeftanks6]

Wow that clown tang blows my mind at how small it was. You got a great specimen. Recty i also followed Goodwins thread, what an amazing tank and the fish he kept was incredible. I use to watch his live video a lot to see what the fish were doing it was beautiful.

 

[Recty]

Wow look at him eat, no wonder he has grown so big.
Do you still have the queen trigger?
How would you compare the queen trigger to your old goldenheart?

I sold the queen trigger. It was a sad day but it needed to be done. She was eating as much, or more, than all the other fish combined. She was growing very fast and in the last week or two getting quite aggressive. I attribute some of that to the too small tank for her rapidly expanding size.

Queen vs Goldheart... the queen in my experience was definitely more aggressive and certainly faster growing. My goldheart maybe grew an inch in the year I kept it, it went from around 5" to MAYBE 6", whereas the queen went from 4.5" or so to 7" in about 5 months.

Body shapes were very similar, patterns obviously differed. They reminded me a lot of each other.

In the end, if I wanted a community trigger, I'd get the goldheart over the queen. If I wanted a species only tank, or one with just a few very aggressive fish, I'd select the queen.

Wow that clown tang blows my mind at how small it was. You got a great specimen. Recty i also followed Goodwins thread, what an amazing tank and the fish he kept was incredible. I use to watch his live video a lot to see what the fish were doing it was beautiful.

Yep, that clown was a BABY. Just crazy small. Once I got him adjusted onto my food which only took about 2 days, he has been an absolute pig. He was too small to eat the 1mm pellets at first, but he really really tried. He mainly ate flakes and nori and chomped away at the pellets but couldnt just inhale pellets like all the other fish. After about a month, he was finally big enough to ingest a whole pellet, at that point his growth really took off. Now, he is almost big enough to eat the 3mm pellets...

I just realized last night that Goodwin died months ago. I knew he had cancer from reading his thread but I stopped reading through it a year ago or so, I just read again last night once I found it and he is no longer with us, that's too bad.