Videos of some hungry coral!

[stunreefer]

Had some free time tonight and had my work camera with me... took a couple quick vids of some of my NPC feeding. The Rhizotruchus typus is taking down a 2"+ Krill, and the Dendrophyllia colony is taking a 1.5" Krill (one polyp on this same colony ate a 2.5" Lysmata amboinensis, a.k.a. skunk cleaner shrimp):

 

[Aquabacs]

Nice vids Austin!

Mike

 

[Western_reefer]

Awesome videos!

 

[tqui]

nice... it's that an arawona fish that i saw in second video..

 

[stunreefer]

Thanks guys!

With my poor, poor skills at taking pictures and videos I was pretty happy how those came out

nice... it's that an arawona fish that i saw in second video..

No, that's an Apolemichthys arcuatus (Bandit Angel). She does have very long pelvic fins like certain arowana do, but arowana are freshwater. I've kept my fair share of those beastly fish over the years though

 

[uhuru]

That's some serious polyp extension! And sticky tentacles!

How aggressive is the bandit? Is she like other angels? Just wondering if one might get along with my OSFF

 

[stunreefer]

Yeah, in the rhizo video you can see it just doesn't want to let go of the shish kabob skewer :lol:

As angels go, they're not too bad. She's only in with a Sunburst anthias at the moment, and she keeps her pinned over in a corner most of the time, but the anthias was really shy before anyways. If the anthias goes after a piece of food the angel was looking at, the angel let's her know! They are quite territorial though, but with a proper acclimated fish other additions should be OK, the OSFF might be too timid though, at least until vigorously taking prepared foods (but I think yours does?). The bandit has a mate in route in the next few months Consensus on these guys from experienced keepers is that cool water goes a looong way - my tank rides between 68-70° F.