Some mediocre pictures of some wonderful fish

[small alien]

Feeding Sepia bandensis from my internship last fall.

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And, since who doesn't like videos of 3" cephalopods doing cool stuff, here's a couple more for the intrigued. Caring for this exhibit was beyond awesome.

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[RJT]

Thanks, Peter. I do love my fish population. The only change I would make is to remove either my male or female meleagris leopard. The male chases the female a good bit. She's always on edge. I've heard meleagris leopards don't pair up but I don't know. Mine certainly haven't.

I thought it was just mine. My splendid has killed three other female leopards. The one she allows to live is chased a lot on some days. Other days she doesn't notice her.

You have a great tank.

 

[small alien]

Thanks, RJT. I got my leopards as a pair of juvis exactly the same size. Maybe and inch and a half. Eventually, one chased the other intensely for a long time until the other exhibited the proper submissive cues and the chaser then changed into a male. But I suspect he is constantly needing to prevent the other from changing by chasing.

Cheers.

 

[small alien]

Here's a feeding video from this evening. Prawn roe.

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[small alien]

Note #1. I have the flow off so the green mandarin can feed. It eats prawn roe with vigor but that's it at this point.

Note #2. Turn the flow back on. I lost about 1/3 of my fish one terrible night when I did not.