I get a reaction every time I reveal my inhabitants
I get a reaction every time I reveal my inhabitants
Aw I wasn't trying to say it was a health thing or something like that.
I just found it very curious she would change like this. At this point it is almost hard to tell from my yellow belly color-wise! The only difference is the yellow belly has an orange cast, while the blue is very straight yellow. It would drive me crazy if I couldn't tell them apart lol. I almost want her to change back!
All of those are in a 120g or is the sig old? Not to be critical if it's working out, just curious. I know you didn't post the list for critique but I can't ignore one thing. You shouldn't be surprised if you start having a lot of missing fish with those anglers. Anglers can eat things that are pretty much their own size, and eventually... Well, anything 5" or under could be in trouble. They even try to eat things larger than themselves sometimes which can end up killing both fish.
My tank is a five foot 120 tank with 150 lbs of live rock and many hermit crabs and snails over the four years and two months. I just added two 55 gallon cleaner packs from Dr. F & S with Turbo snails, Dwarf Red Tip Hermit crabs, and Scarlet Reef Hermit crabs. I added them in a week apart with the second put in on Friday. I have added about 160 various hermit crabs from Jan 2007 through Jan 2008. I added 40 Zebra Dwarf Hermit crabs last January. The new cleaner packs have done a marvelous job making my tank shine brighter with the two 150 metal halides and the four 54 watt actinics.
I still have my three yellow tail damsels, one six line wrasse, one black mouth damsel, two four striped damsels, a two inch fuzzy dwarf lion, a two and a half inch redfin wasp fish, a large pair of Cinnamon clowns and they have not been lunch to date. I try to feed my fish as much as I possibly can while still maintaining water quality for my corals which include three sps montioporas plate corals, one encrusting sps montioporas, one lobed brain, one favite brain, two flower pot corals, five bubble tip anemones and it seems to work for the tank. I do not always "use caution" when I decide to enter a certain fish and I think these two anglers which were sold as getting not bigger than six inches maximum have not yet attacked my smaller fish. I feed them silversides. My lions are small mouthed and have not bother these small fish either.
My stocking for my tanks particular may not be what others would consider "safe" although I have smaller fish swimming around both of my smaller anglers. I particularly did not select anglers which would get bigger than six inches.
I used to have a really serious aggression issue with the female Cinnamon chasing the female Clarkii. My recliner is two feet from the left end of the tank and I have my 60" Marineland Pro Lighting System over the tank which is left open to the air. I would get water splashed on my face although the fins stayed in good shape on the Clarkii female.
A week after putting in the "terminator", orange indonesian angler, I noticed there was not the continual tank chaos which I was powerless to prevent as the clowns would dive for the rocks with introduction of any net.
The terminator was floating around the tank with what looked like a two and a half bulge. He would float in the upper current like a Thanksgiving Parade ballon and then position himself looking down between the glass and the back of one of my Hydor 8's. He eventually digested as far as I could tell since I never saw the female Clarkii again. He was the best addition towards the peace in my tank with the female Cinnamon cruising her tank and breeding with her mate. Yes, he may be a terminator, although I am thinking he may have just wanted to say, "there is a new sheriff in town", and lets all get along!
The male still hides in the rocks on the left end while the Cinnamons host the full length of the tank in all five anemones.
After this initial "disappearance", I have not had any other "suspicious" disappearances.
I really think my fish are aware where to go to be safe and nobody runs scared and everybody seems happy from what I can tell with not chasing or aggressive actions which ruin the tanks peaceful looking status.
Yes, I may be pushing some conventional ideas on fish compatibility although I think it is working for me.
I also over filtrate with an Aqua-Medic Turboflotor 1000 Multi protein skimmer rated for 250 gallon tank maximum, two Rena XP4 canisters each rated up to a 265 gallon tank(my sumps), and the 150 lbs of live rock with two Hydor 8 circulation pumps. One each in the upper front of the left and right ends for excellent biological filtration.
I will judge my stocking when I can evaluate it in the long term.
For now I am happy with things as they are and everybody is eating well or has been eaten well?
I would preferr to have the angels, tangs, large Cinnamons, and other fish like the lions and redfin waspfish, and pair of Leaf fish and lose the all the damsels although I am hoping for "lets all get along" system in the long run.
Time will tell.
