Wow...

Wow, he sent it to you free? That's awesome! I'm def. saving up for a mantis from them now :D
All these creatures coming off your rock....I'd like to just set up a 5 gal with 3 lbs of rock and watch all the creatures on it. No need for fish! lol
 
He didn't ship it, I went to pick it up. It's only like a 20-30 minute drive each way. But yeah, it's really great. He said these were just in the Gulf the day before yesterday. :beachbum:
 
Sure. :)
I finally went with this rock set-up:
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As you may be able to see, I moved the Angler into the 20gal a few minutes ago, and already eating the shrimp I had in there waiting for him. So far, he's eaten two, and I got to video the second one.
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I'm not sure how to post videos exactly yet, but here's a link to it. :debi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5MPc6nCYsc
 
That video was awesome... I think it's funny how the poor shrimp was looking at the "food"
Shrimp: " I want it, I want it, I want i-"
**********CHOMP***********
Ah, don't feel bad shrimp, I thought the thing was a sponge the first time I saw it too...
Angler is adorable :inlove:
Nice scape, epoxy or the law of gravity? Looks like the stuff is starting to come back.

( Saw the mantis/angler vid too. I laughed when the shrimp got into position...what with the smashers out and all :lol2: )

On my mantis thread, you said about the lighting you have; is this the tank it's over?
 
The rocks are just sitting there, no epoxy or anything.That middle piece is just giant, I wasn't sure how to make it 'fit', and I just eventually got to this. I think it was my 5th try. I am loving my Angler, he's so awesome...!
I have that lighting over my 220g. I have some Marineland crappy LEDs over this tank (that were meant for FW, but I converted it to salt) but I'm trying to get my friend to make me some DIY LEDs... If you watch any of the other videos like the ones with the ray and eel, that is the lighting I was talking about.
 
:lol2:
Everyone but the shrimp knows how this is going to end :p
Great picture lol The little angler looks so mad... and now because of you I think I'm going to have to set up another tank for an angler.. -.- Of course I fall in love with the creatures that require their own tank...
 
Me to! Because of seeing all of namxas' pictures, I'm acclimating another fish to this tank... This tank was originally going to be for Cuttlefish (Sepia bandensis) or a dwarf octopus (O. mercatoris), and then I saw this Angler for sale, and I had to jump on it because I knew it wouldn't last on DD...
 
I just read my post again, and it sounded like I got another Angler, but I was talking about when I got him a few weeks ago, and I got one of the fish Greg often posts pictures of. So far, he hasn't eaten, and looks really thin, so I'm kind of worried. But for the past ten minutes he has been staring at the Grass shrimp I have in the tank that he refused to eat earlier. :hmm5:

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Yeah, no. I got what you meant...and don't tell me I missed this beauty on DD too? How are you woking out the whole size differential thing with those two? Hopefully you won't have too much trouble with getting the leaf to eat.
 
I got this guy at a not so L, LFS... In the next tank they had a 'Giant Angler', and OMG that thing was @&(%&!(& AMAZING! It had this coloring, and was easily 8" long and 6" tall. The thing was a monster! I wanted to get him, but he was 3x the price and I couldn't justify $150 dollars for him, plus that thing could eat my Angler, and we can't have that! I'm hoping he'll eat soon. Tomorrow at work I'll bring home some Ghost shrimp and maybe he won't be as stressed out and will sample a few. :D
 
LFS's round here can't seem to get in anything neat. And when they do ( on RARE occasions) they either don't know that it's rare or what it is and treat it with the wrong husbandry or they jack the price up sky rocketed. And I'm talking 4 different LFS's!
 
I have to go out of town to get interesting things, local FS just don't stock the unusual I like.

Here's the kicker, like I was saying earlier about getting an Octo, I had given up on getting one, and now that I have these fish, they have become available now... Now I'm considering moving the Angler and his new friend to the 5... but I know that's not the smartest thing to do. :angryfire:
 
I don't have any more room! lol :( My desk has the 5g and my computer, and right next to me is the dresser with the 20g on it. Unless I want to put a tank on my TV, I don't think I can do that. As much as I want to, the sand/rock/other things was about $150 not including the tank and I don't want to do that again. :crazy1:
 
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