2years ago I found a 1" in h snowflak from Hawaii with allot of yellow. I had never seen one this small.he was not even as thick as a pencil and smaller then a Crayon.I bought him for my mixed reef.he found a nice hole and I have a dsb so he has made many tunnels that have entrances all over the tank.I do not feed him he seems to only like bristle worms and stomata snail and I have allot of each.it is great to watch him hunt the worms and to slither around my rockwork like a snake its so cool.then he sits in his hole with his head out and mouth open just watching his domaine.I love him as a reef fish.to me it seems that a reef doesn't look as cool without one.there is a dwarf Morey the yellow and gold one but the are 300$.my snowflake has only grown only 2 inches in 2 years and bothers nothing in my tank even gets cleaned by my cleaner shrimp.its so cool to watch him just pop up from his tunnels in the dsb.if you can get one as a baby I suggest it for all reefers they are just to cool and if you have the money the dwarf is another option for smallertanks.just make sure you're corals are secure and rock work is steady.does anyone else Here have a snowflake in a reef?the only fish I keep besides the eel are damsels and clowns and a gobie.I love the blue devil damsels and have a 15 pluss year old one and 2 more 1 male 2 female they are a pair pluss a fry from the time they bred and I raised the fry now I scrape the eggs off to feed my corals .they are a hard fish to sell.I love there attitude and ability to glow so blue my camera cant take a pick it blurs it out.they also have a nem they protect and call home its a Bali hell fire anemone doesn't sting them veryodd.any one hear with the blue devils.pluss good stories.that is what this post is for to share are experiences withthetwo fishpond
the snowflake and blue devil
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Sounds cool. Pics?
A friend of mine many years ago had a predator reef that was one of my favorite tanks of all time. The star of the show was a 5ft long tesselata moray. Like you said the rocks all had to be epoxied together but it was quite a sight to see him poking out of the coral.
The moray eventually had to be moved to a tank of his own. After he killed and/or ate about $1000 worth of tank mates. Sounds like the smaller eels are the way to go.
A friend of mine many years ago had a predator reef that was one of my favorite tanks of all time. The star of the show was a 5ft long tesselata moray. Like you said the rocks all had to be epoxied together but it was quite a sight to see him poking out of the coral.
The moray eventually had to be moved to a tank of his own. After he killed and/or ate about $1000 worth of tank mates. Sounds like the smaller eels are the way to go.
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I used to keep a small snowflake eel in my mixed reef. He went from 3" to about 12" in three years. I fed him frozen food by hand, actually a small tweezer was used to hold the food. He loved mysis and most shrimp based processed foods. Great fish that I really loved to watch. He learned the pattern of feeding and would get very excited when I fed him. I gave him to a good friend with a larger tank when I started to get SPSs.
