blobfish
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Hi,
For the past two and half years I have had a 185 gallon tank I bought used and fully set up. The aquarium came with all the equipment, live rock, and a bunch of soft coral as well as a blue tang, naso tang, yellow tang, marine Betta, mated pair of goldstripe maroon clownfish, and a coral beauty angel. Over the past few years I have tried and tried again to introduce new fish to the tank including an orange spot goby, fox face, barred rabbit fish, blue throat trigger fish, fire fish, anthias, wrasse, and even a Cortez stingray( not all at the same time of course. Every single one, except for the goby( only survivor thus far) has lived for up to around 6 or so months and then died. All of these fish were quarantined for two months,and acclimated in an acclimation box for two or three days. I have gotten them from different sources ( liveaquaria, and three different very good LFS). None of the fish showed any signs of bullying but all of the died. Right now I am incredibly fed up as all these fish have cost me over 500$, which is a lot considering that I'm 15 and everything I buy I have to buy with my own money. At this point I think the best thing to do is give away most of the larger aggressive fish the the tank came with and start over with smaller fish such as anthias, gobys, chromis, cardinal fish, blennys, wrasse and the such. I would also like to finally be able to keep small inverts like cleaner shrimp( last time I tried the fish just got a very expensive meal). I'm also very interested in redesigning the tank around some captive bred pipefish or seahorses but I know this may not be realistic. I would like to know which of my current fish I will need to remove if I want to do this.
Thanks sorry for the very long post.
For the past two and half years I have had a 185 gallon tank I bought used and fully set up. The aquarium came with all the equipment, live rock, and a bunch of soft coral as well as a blue tang, naso tang, yellow tang, marine Betta, mated pair of goldstripe maroon clownfish, and a coral beauty angel. Over the past few years I have tried and tried again to introduce new fish to the tank including an orange spot goby, fox face, barred rabbit fish, blue throat trigger fish, fire fish, anthias, wrasse, and even a Cortez stingray( not all at the same time of course. Every single one, except for the goby( only survivor thus far) has lived for up to around 6 or so months and then died. All of these fish were quarantined for two months,and acclimated in an acclimation box for two or three days. I have gotten them from different sources ( liveaquaria, and three different very good LFS). None of the fish showed any signs of bullying but all of the died. Right now I am incredibly fed up as all these fish have cost me over 500$, which is a lot considering that I'm 15 and everything I buy I have to buy with my own money. At this point I think the best thing to do is give away most of the larger aggressive fish the the tank came with and start over with smaller fish such as anthias, gobys, chromis, cardinal fish, blennys, wrasse and the such. I would also like to finally be able to keep small inverts like cleaner shrimp( last time I tried the fish just got a very expensive meal). I'm also very interested in redesigning the tank around some captive bred pipefish or seahorses but I know this may not be realistic. I would like to know which of my current fish I will need to remove if I want to do this.
Thanks sorry for the very long post.
