My new tank

[jjk_reef00]

Very cool, I love the queen trigger! Keep the pics coming.

 

[Recty]

Very cool, I love the queen trigger! Keep the pics coming.

Ask and you will receive... except this isnt the queen trigger

Here's the damsels... they only took about 30 minutes to start swimming around together and they attacked the pellets I dropped in for the queen. Unfortunately for them, the pellets dont fit in their mouths

This is my other new fish, a scopas tang. I know, a tang in a 38g, what a bad boy I am. The only reason I'm willing to do it is the tang is small, about 1.5" and scopas are relatively slow growing. I have to have something that grazes the live rock and keeps the fuzz away, so a tang it is. By the time he needs a new tank the queen trigger will already have made me get a new tank, so he wont ever be in a tank way too small for him.

So I think my stocking list is complete, as long as all fish live. I've got my two bigger "show" fish, a couple damsels to eat the small floaty pieces of leftover food and a tang to keep the rocks clean. My only worry is the scopas came in VERY skinny and probably wont last too long, however, I'm powerfeeding the little guy, basically always leaving an algae clip where he likes to roam the most, so hopefully he can gain some weight.

 

[samdaman]

Ask and you will receive... except this isnt the queen trigger

Here's the damsels... they only took about 30 minutes to start swimming around together and they attacked the pellets I dropped in for the queen. Unfortunately for them, the pellets dont fit in their mouths

This is my other new fish, a scopas tang. I know, a tang in a 38g, what a bad boy I am. The only reason I'm willing to do it is the tang is small, about 1.5" and scopas are relatively slow growing. I have to have something that grazes the live rock and keeps the fuzz away, so a tang it is. By the time he needs a new tank the queen trigger will already have made me get a new tank, so he wont ever be in a tank way too small for him.

So I think my stocking list is complete, as long as all fish live. I've got my two bigger "show" fish, a couple damsels to eat the small floaty pieces of leftover food and a tang to keep the rocks clean. My only worry is the scopas came in VERY skinny and probably wont last too long, however, I'm powerfeeding the little guy, basically always leaving an algae clip where he likes to roam the most, so hopefully he can gain some weight.

Aww the scopas tang brought back memories. Hope it fattens up, i got one just like that and it only lasted a month.. :/

 

[Baldwin]

I like the idea of getting the damsels, but I think you should have gotten all dissimiliar damsels, those blues are going to chase achother all day, and stress the other fish, ESPECIALLY when they get bigger.

 

[Stuart60611]

I like the idea of getting the damsels, but I think you should have gotten all dissimiliar damsels, those blues are going to chase achother all day, and stress the other fish, ESPECIALLY when they get bigger.

They will kill each other off. I started with three yellowtails, and now I am down to just one. There are quite a few positngs here of people who have had similar experiences. The best you can hope for is that two of the yellowtails pair off. Otherwise, you will be down to just one eventually.

 

[Recty]

I've had four different types of damsels in my larger tank, they all chased each other just as much as similar shapes, imo.

The only fish I would worry about stressing would be the scopas tang, the wrasse and trigger will not get stressed from some puny damsels

 

[Recty]

It's actually been interesting watching them, the queen is acting like it expects cleaning behavior from the damsels. It goes into the rocks and spreads out right by one and waits. So far the damsels havent tried, they've looked at the queen real close but then just swim away slowly. She sits there trying to get cleaned but no one will do it.

I wish I could risk a cleaner shrimp in there but I know the wrasse would destroy it and eventually I think the queen would as well.

 

[palmer373]

haha when i read the comment about the scopas being very skinny i imediately new it was petco. Tim had a ~1" scopas, i would love to get it for the 55 but idk how long it would last. good luck with the damsels. i had 1 yellowtail die from superficial cuts and the other was sucked into a powerhead (i dont know why he want to see what was in their in the first place) so now i just have 1 fiji blue. keep us updated on the fishes, they are awesome lol.

sometimes cheaper is better

 

[barbianj]

Oooh, that tang is thin as a leaf. Scopas are very underrated, IMO. Hope he's eating good.

 

[Recty]

He's very skinny and not really eating well. I feed a lot in my tank so he has lots of opportunity. I've got two algae clips going right now but he doesnt associate that with food yet, I'm working on it.

When I remove uneaten algae and some floats through the water in small pieces, he nibbles on that, plus I've got some live rock that he snacks on so that's helping at least a little bit. I just made an extra $50 on the side doing a half hour of computer support, I was thinking about going to the pet store tomorrow and spending it on a rock hopefully covered in algae

I fed mysis today during lunch and it took him a little bit but then he started nibbling on pieces floating through the water, so I'll continue to feed at least a cube of that a day so that he has some food, I might even bump that up to two cubes until I get him eating nori good and hopefully pellets.

I agree, scopas are underrated. I saw a gorgeous adult scopas that was around 6", it was an awesome fish. I hope this guy lives to see 6"

 

[samdaman]

He's very skinny and not really eating well. I feed a lot in my tank so he has lots of opportunity. I've got two algae clips going right now but he doesnt associate that with food yet, I'm working on it.

When I remove uneaten algae and some floats through the water in small pieces, he nibbles on that, plus I've got some live rock that he snacks on so that's helping at least a little bit. I just made an extra $50 on the side doing a half hour of computer support, I was thinking about going to the pet store tomorrow and spending it on a rock hopefully covered in algae

I fed mysis today during lunch and it took him a little bit but then he started nibbling on pieces floating through the water, so I'll continue to feed at least a cube of that a day so that he has some food, I might even bump that up to two cubes until I get him eating nori good and hopefully pellets.

I agree, scopas are underrated. I saw a gorgeous adult scopas that was around 6", it was an awesome fish. I hope this guy lives to see 6"

With mine, I pinned the algae under a rock. and he liked it like that

 

[Recty]

Good idea. Tonight late I put an algae clip just laying on a rock, we will see how that does. If that doesnt work, I'll try just putting it under a small piece of rock.

In my old 210 before I went aggressive, I used to rubber band nori to a small piece of rock rubble and that seemed to work with some of my picky eaters.

 

[samdaman]

Good idea. Tonight late I put an algae clip just laying on a rock, we will see how that does. If that doesnt work, I'll try just putting it under a small piece of rock.

In my old 210 before I went aggressive, I used to rubber band nori to a small piece of rock rubble and that seemed to work with some of my picky eaters.

Yeah, Thats how he liked it. He ate from the clip too, but you can see he enjoyed it more under the rock.

 

[barbianj]

Maybe consider Prazi Pro for that guy?

 

[Recty]

Might not be a bad idea. I'm not sure he has internal parasites as I havent seen him pass anything white at all, in fact he just put out a big green mass like most tangs do last night when I was watching him, so I know he is eating the nori.

 

[Sonicblast12]

Good idea. Tonight late I put an algae clip just laying on a rock, we will see how that does. If that doesnt work, I'll try just putting it under a small piece of rock.

In my old 210 before I went aggressive, I used to rubber band nori to a small piece of rock rubble and that seemed to work with some of my picky eaters.

I thought this was such a good idea I used it on my hunger striking flame.

It didn't draw the intended audience. Gotta love triggers.

 

[Recty]

Too bad it didnt work for you. Some fish take a while to realize what we are trying to feed them is actually food

I'm still hopeful for the little scopas, he has one side of the tank with the live rock he really likes to roam, I'm keeping that side crammed with nori for the time being and I'm pretty sure he will eventually start eating.

He has nibbled at a couple pellets too but doesnt seem real interested.

 

[lps keeper]

I thought this was such a good idea I used it on my hunger striking flame.

It didn't draw the intended audience. Gotta love triggers.

lol

 

[samdaman]

Too bad it didnt work for you. Some fish take a while to realize what we are trying to feed them is actually food

I'm still hopeful for the little scopas, he has one side of the tank with the live rock he really likes to roam, I'm keeping that side crammed with nori for the time being and I'm pretty sure he will eventually start eating.

He has nibbled at a couple pellets too but doesnt seem real interested.

My scopa's also liked ocean nutrition formula 2 flakes.. Idk if you wanna try that. Oh and about the parasites, don't be too sure, mine was pooping good and stuff and out of the blue dead one day. They only clue to his death was pointed out after he died. Idk if it was a freak accident or what. Rocks where glued together so nothing fell on him. Here is a picture:

This one is of how skinny he was:

Side one of when he passed:

Side two of when he passed:

I still get sad when I see his pictures

 

[Recty]

Wow, his stomach looks bleached. Did you ever determine what exactly was the cause of death? Or why his stomach took on that look?

I fed flakes today... I have some left over free ones that came with a tank I set up. I tried them and the scopas picked at them, even sucked some all the way into his mouth but then spit them out.

I'll try the more expensive and hopefully therefore better tasting and quality Formula Two flakes, I like all their other products.

I put the nori in a clip laying on the rocks again about 30 minutes ago and had the satisfaction of watching the scopas start to pick at it. He isnt aggressively eating, but he is definitely picking and swallowing so that's very good, I'll keep that clip loaded every day for him.