who needs a casino to lose money?

[Gary Majchrzak]

I'm back among the gambler's in the URS. (A couple of you guys already have Pomacanthus Angelfish in your reef.) Here's the new fish and here's it's likliest target: my big red Cynarina. Why'd I do it? Who the h*** knows? Keeping fish and coral by themselves is no challenge to me. Keeping fish together with corals is.
OK, I'll admit it: Seeing Steve and John with big Pomacanthus in their reef's pushed me over the edge!

 

[vitaldefect001]

looks like an awsome fish
any more pics of the beast?

 

[sschafer]

Hahahahaha . . . sucker. I Photoshoped the P. annularis in my tank!!! Just kidding. Welcome to the big leagues. Now if I can only get Kevin to put a Blue Face in his tank . . . Personifiers are going in my next tank. I saw pairs available a couple of months ago.

-Steve

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Sonofagun- the truth comes out. I thought you strategically placed corals in the aquarium for the photos, Steve.
Stay tuned- the red Cynarina might go up on the auction block soon...

Bob Sweeney- it looks like you were in Spencerport when I was in Syracuse today. Now you know why.

 

[Kent E]

Looks nice, Your right about the hobby being a gamble. Hopefully if it goes down it won't be in one sitting.

With the bew tank I hope to do some more larger/exotic fish but there is the whole "risk factor" thing. Best of luck.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I'm expecting this fish to turn into something of a fat "lunker" in my aquarium. It's a sponge and Tunicate eater. I'm also hoping it will eat Xenia and brown star polyps.

 

[captain7359]

I'm sure I could come up with some floor space in the tank should you need a babysitter for the bubble. Beautiful fish and the bubble is looking good too. Best of luck.

 

[MarkKlier]

Living on the wild side!!!!! Well in reality that is the coral reef....the big circle of life!!!! MK

 

[Jaffa]

Sonofagun- the truth comes out. I thought you strategically placed corals in the aquarium for the photos, Steve.
Stay tuned- the red Cynarina might go up on the auction block soon...

Bob Sweeney- it looks like you were in Spencerport when I was in Syracuse today. Now you know why.

You got it at Fairmount Aquarium? If so, I've seen it(very nice fish)!

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I got the fish from RC member aqualab.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

The fish is bold in many ways.

 

[MarksReef]

Very nice, Gary. :eek2:

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Yeah- this fish sparkles, literally. The blue lines around the fins are incredible.

 

[Jaffa]

Ah, well that's very good since they are very difficult fish and probably shouldn't be collected. They did have a small one at Fairmount.

Looks great Gary.

 

[Kent E]

Gary,
Keep this post updated on occasion so we can know the long term habit of the fish. I am torn between majestic, regal, and flame.

Hey we can see the sparkle in the photo, you are getting amazing at these pics.

 

[gary greguire]

amazing fish Gary MMR had a royal angel there that was eating good I was very tempted but I also just got my first clam I have seen pics of them in peoples reefs before any thoughts on the royal.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

royal=regal?
(I don't know what a royal is.) I do know that Regal Angelfish are well known zooanthid eaters- and that's why I eliminated the species from consideration.
Kent- the pic was taken using natural sunlight from our skylight.
So far the fish hasn't bothered anything that I know of.
This particular fish was buddies with a purple tang in it's last aquarium, but my purple tang harrassed this fish at first. Now the purp has given up- the Angelfish will not be intimidated.
I've kept Centropyge, Chaetodontoplus and now a Pomacanthus in my reef aquaria and this fish has been the least destructive (so far).
None of the Angelfish that I have kept bothered clams.

 

[sschafer]

Kent,

Lots of people have problems with flames. Majestics do pretty well usually do quite well with SPS and many LPS. There is a huge thread in the Reef Fish forum regarding regals. People seem to be doing rather well with them now. If I had a larger tank I'd consider adding a regal as well.

-Steve

Gary,
Keep this post updated on occasion so we can know the long term habit of the fish. I am torn between majestic, regal, and flame.

Hey we can see the sparkle in the photo, you are getting amazing at these pics.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

One desirable (IMO) trait that Majestic, Flame and Regal Angelfish share is their smaller size.

 

[gary greguire]

hey gary that was a regal angel I was asking about. My wife did talk me into a coral beauty it is in my 125 and has only ben grazing on algae so far. that regal was nice but I have quite a few zoos in the tank that I realy want to keep