My Journey with C./P. multifasciata

Good news, they are being transferred to their 65g home today. Due to some water change water not mixing to the salinity it does, I am having to match salinity. Some how the display got down to 1.015 and the angels were at 1.020. I'll slowly be upping the display to 1.025 over the next couple of weeks and the QT should be up to 1.024 by Monday with some fresh salt water being mixed now for new arrivals on Tuesday. :D
 
I try some times. :)

They haven't been very photogenic lately, which isn't actually them, just dirty QT glass. I have gotten a couple of pictures of them being acclimated, so I'll get some pictures uploaded soon.
 
Water level hasn't moved, and the tank was 1.025 when I set it up. I think my salt has been mixing low recently because I got new water containers, they might hold more than the normal 5 I'm accustomed to and I haven't had salinity issues up until now with the new buckets.

Anyways, they were released and are actively exploring the tank. Both are picking at the rocks and figuring out where they will claim as "home". Pictures are loading now, just have to sort through the good and bad ones.
 
In the bucket for salinity adjustment:


Female just before going into the DT:


Male before going into the DT:


Their meet up area:
 
Two weeks since moving the pair to the display and the male is doing well. He continues to eat with gusto (even beginning to accept LRF). He is loving the flow from the vortechs and the extra swimming room. Sadly I haven't seen the female for 5 days, and she wasn't eating like she normally did three days prior to her disappearing. Some don't take a new environment well, and the low salinity didn't help. My guess with no body being visible anywhere is that she has stayed in her sleeping spot or the CUC did their job.

I'm going to see if she comes out in the next week and decide on what route I'm going to take with my centropyge breeding endeavors. Not sure if I keep the solo male and wait for a solid smaller specimen to show up, or if I find him a new home and get a new species.
 
This is disheartening to hear, I'm sorry Kyle. Maybe just get the one you've got in rock solid shape and when another one comes along be ready to jump on it.
 
caribfan said:
This is disheartening to hear, I'm sorry Kyle. Maybe just get the one you've got in rock solid shape and when another one comes along be ready to jump on it.
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That's what I'm thinking. My surviving one is actually doing very well, I think giving him a couple of tank mates will help bring him out a bit more. I just have to figure out how to do light acclimation with him since he won't move beyond the rock even when only the actinics are on. I'm leaning towards using layered egg crate or the like and slowly removing a layer every few days or so...
 
Well keep your chin up, you've certainly been faithful to your project.

Does he move around when the lights are completely off? I think I'd be tempted to just give him ambient light for an extended period of time.

My venustus only had ambient light for quite a while, and now they are all over the place in regular flourescent.
 
Yep, he is quite active during the day with no direct lighting over the tank as the ambient light from the windows wakes him up. He still moves around with lifts on over the tank, it's just that he stays close to the rock work unlike with just ambient light.

I think this is one instance where LEDs would be nice to have. :)
 
Hi, sorry to hear about you loss, however, your last pics do show a very sterile tank (this is not the QT anymore right?). My suggestion would be to buy yourself some proper live rock and let it mature (algae, pods, sponges etc) and only then add new angelfish. This is just a waste of money (I do not really care) and animals (I do care).

Even better, wait with the entire project till after you come back from college, breeding fish is not something you do with minimal effort.

I really like and admire your ambition but can't help feeling sad for the fish.

Sorry if I sound a bit grumpy (I don't know the proper English word) but like I said, in my opinion get ready first and then get live animals. This is not what I would call ready and the fish pay for it.
 
There is proper live rock, and their QT didn't have proper live rock and the male thrived for over 3 months in it and is doing very well now. The female ate well, then stopped eating and grazing all together. Most of rock is older than it appears because having no light on it while curing in the basement doesn't exactly allow for everything to color up and look older.

There won't be another multibar for awhile. And these fish were to be a part of my required research as a part of my college requirements.
 
albano said:
Multibar specifically, or any other dwarf angel
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Could really be any, but I was thinking along the lines of Paracentropyge complex because it is a personal favorite. As long as I can get the project approved, it shouldn't actually matter which species.
 
Ambition said:
There is proper live rock, and their QT didn't have proper live rock and the male thrived for over 3 months in it and is doing very well now. The female ate well, then stopped eating and grazing all together. Most of rock is older than it appears because having no light on it while curing in the basement doesn't exactly allow for everything to color up and look older.

There won't be another multibar for awhile. And these fish were to be a part of my required research as a part of my college requirements.
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Ok, I was not trying to attack you or anything. But that rock and sand looks awfully white and dead for live rock. No algae, no coraline, no worms in the sand, nothing. Anyways, without algae and stuff it does not help your angels.

So if you want to keep them with better chance of succes, get some decent live rock, put it in your tank, light it a bit, feed it a bit, get it through the cycle and then without any other grazing fish put in your multibars. No quarantine, no copper, nothing. I think it will be worth it.

Best of luck with your fish and studies!
 
polleke said:
Ok, I was not trying to attack you or anything. But that rock and sand looks awfully white and dead for live rock. No algae, no coraline, no worms in the sand, nothing. Anyways, without algae and stuff it does not help your angels.

So if you want to keep them with better chance of succes, get some decent live rock, put it in your tank, light it a bit, feed it a bit, get it through the cycle and then without any other grazing fish put in your multibars. No quarantine, no copper, nothing. I think it will be worth it.

Best of luck with your fish and studies!
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In an ideal world I would have the space for a rock filled acclimation tank to get the fish eating the way I want and very solidly. Then after the fish are eating the foods with gusto, will they go into the typical "sterile" QT with no rock for prazi treatment, and likely a TT period between the acclimation and sterile QT. After that, then finally going into the DT. Sadly, at this point in time I don't have the space for such a vigorous QT protocol.

Pigpen17 said:
Why not? I'll be looking for one from LA, but not for a few more months.
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College move is coming up, so it will take time to settle in and I don't think I'll have enough time to dedicate to the fish in order to get it where it needs to be in acclimation for captivity.
 
Took some time today to get a couple of pictures. Figured I'd get them so I can show Kevin how well he is doing when I see him on Sunday.




 
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