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dendronepthya
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The seahorse around the angler is hilarious!
sphelps
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It's actually an easy fish to keep if you can feed it, they will only eat SPS polyps and will likely never except frozen food. The key is to have a LOT of sps corals in the tank so they can spread out their feeding and the corals will have time to recover.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13881231#post13881231 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Recty
That's an orange spotted filefish, they have about as bad of a survival rate as moorish idols, but are a neat fish if you can keep it alive
Thanks for the other comments. I've had the seahorse for about 6 months and have had no issues with the corals but theirs nothing to deadly in the tank. The seahorse is super curious about the lionfish and frogfish and always getting very close, the key is keeping them well fed so they don't get too hungry. There's also a ribbon eel and engineer goby in the same tank.
TitusvileSurfer
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Wow you just blew my mind. I wold never have thought your livestock could co-exist in a mini ecosystem...but you seem to make it work just fine!
ipodhommie
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more pics... especially of the blue ribbon eel!
TitusvileSurfer
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Are all of these in your 135g cube? I am not sure what you mean by a 55g stacked combo, but I would guess they are 2 separate display tanks plumbed to a common sump. Regardless, I think you have one of the more origional tanks out there. In fact I think it should be considered for TOTM because of that unique beauty only you seem to have. At any rate, I am a big fan. Excellent photography too by the way! I know this is the photography forum but your tank just floors me beyond words. Do you have a build thread or a stock list or anything in the main forums you can link us to?
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reefierone
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your tank and photos are amazing
thanks for sharing!
thanks for sharing!
dancewithethan
Ethan M
I like your seahorse, what do feed them with?
TitusvileSurfer
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Do your SPS polyps tend to grow back or respawn when the filefish plucks them out of their home or does the empty socket just close over? (Isn't he amazing by the way.) Are you worried the frog fish will eat the lion or vise versa? What do you feed those guys anyway, not to mention the eel. I would imagine the lion would have trouble racing for food. How old is that clam anyway?! So many questions...I could go on and on. I am simply in awe. It could be the greatest balance of live stock I've ever seen.
TitusvileSurfer
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I see you had a moorish idol, how did that go? You sure are adventurous, and I love it. I'm also curious about the lionfish in your avatar. I'm sorry, no more questions. I just find this so fascinating.
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sphelps
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Thanks folks, I'll do my best to answer all the questions, let me know if I missed anything.
First off, the Display tank consists of two tanks stacked vertically. The top tank is an SPS dominant 36x36x24 starphire tank, viewable from 3 sides and approximately 130 gallons. The lower tank is an LPS and softy 30x24x16 acrylic tank, viewable from one side and approximately 50 gallons.
Here's a FTS, sorry this is the only one I have already uploaded. Usually I don't have all kinds of cables sticking out from behind the tank.
Also here's my filtration cabinet in the room behind.
The design I based it on:
A quick FTS of the above tank, not the best but you get the idea.
OK more questions:
The seahorse and goby get fed everyday, the mysis is a little small for the other fish and they don't show too much interest, they'll eat a little but not very much.
About every third day I feed the rest of the fish whole krill, I use tongs to feed everyone individually otherwise the lion would dominate.
I recently tried another one since now the tank is mostly SPS corals but it died during acclimatization. It was eating at the LFS but I guess just a fragile fish, I don't think I be trying again anytime soon, maybe my next tank
A very cool fish. It would constantly sway back and forth imitating a leaf. Also the only fish I've ever seen come directly from a supplier with toxic sticker all over the bag, so I'm assuming it was quite venomous.
First off, the Display tank consists of two tanks stacked vertically. The top tank is an SPS dominant 36x36x24 starphire tank, viewable from 3 sides and approximately 130 gallons. The lower tank is an LPS and softy 30x24x16 acrylic tank, viewable from one side and approximately 50 gallons.
Here's a FTS, sorry this is the only one I have already uploaded. Usually I don't have all kinds of cables sticking out from behind the tank.
Also here's my filtration cabinet in the room behind.
The design I based it on:
A quick FTS of the above tank, not the best but you get the idea.
OK more questions:
As you can see I have two tanks, the bottom tank has the lionfish, frogfish, eel, engineer goby, and seahorse.
Thanks, answered in a previous post but mostly mysis.
I would love to get you tons of info in this fish but I've only had it for about a month, I waited until my tank was full. However he does spread out his feeding over every type of sps and even likes the occasional zoo skirt. So far the coral seems unaffected, some have less polyp extension and some have less polyps in general but no signs of stress what so ever at this point. I'm assuming the polyps will grow back without any problems.
No not really, the frogfish is fairly small, and could never eat the lionfish but still big enough not to get eaten by the lionfish. They seam to get along pretty good as well.
The seahorse and goby get fed everyday, the mysis is a little small for the other fish and they don't show too much interest, they'll eat a little but not very much.
About every third day I feed the rest of the fish whole krill, I use tongs to feed everyone individually otherwise the lion would dominate.
It's a gigas clam which I bout from another reefer about 2 years ago, it was about 6 inches at that point. It's now closer to 10-12 inches and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to remove it from the tank due to clearance issues. I knew the reefer I bought it from and when he bought it, it was about 2-3 inches and had it for about 2 years, so I'd say probably 5 years old.
Not so well. At the time I also had a fowlr tank which I kept the idol for about a year, when I upgraded to the cube I thought I would try the idol in a reef environment but at the time the cube was full of mostly LPS corals and idol liked them all, very much! So he went back into the other tank which was later sold.
I recently tried another one since now the tank is mostly SPS corals but it died during acclimatization. It was eating at the LFS but I guess just a fragile fish, I don't think I be trying again anytime soon, maybe my next tank
That was a leaf fish and one of my personal favorites. I was never able to train it on frozen and it would only accept live food, and even then it would wait for the food, it would never chase it. I made the poor decision to add the fu-man-chu lionfish which out competed the crap out of the fish, that combined with a week holiday ended the short 6 month life in captivity. I keep the fish in my avatar so its memory lives on.
A very cool fish. It would constantly sway back and forth imitating a leaf. Also the only fish I've ever seen come directly from a supplier with toxic sticker all over the bag, so I'm assuming it was quite venomous.
