Hey guys, just some curiosity. I'm generally talking about fish that should be kept by themselves. I personally love anglers and rhinopias I want to try a mantis shrimp, nem only or a tanks revolving around a specific type of coral. What would you guys go for?
If you have a species only tank or could what do/would you keep in it?
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I've always wanted to do a Jellyfish tank. I've seen some beautiful setups at reefing trade shows.
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I would honestly do a group of Pink Streak Wrasse with a ton of Goniopora personally.
If we’re talking about species best kept with other predators I would do the Cockatoo Waspfish. They’re so cute.
Oh and obviously I would have some nice Elegance with them.
I was just thinking about this question and got distracted by thinking about the idea of a single species like a plankton or bacteria culture. The idea of having only 1 type of life form in a tank or culture container is something different than a single fish (or mated pair of fishes).
I have never been able to pick just one species, I always see something else and then have to add “Just one more..”
Right now what I really want today is a cinnamon roll. I’m going to leave soon and go get one, the boss is in Wyoming with his family.
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I have never been able to pick just one species, I always see something else and then have to add “Just one more..”
Right now what I really want today is a cinnamon roll. I’m going to leave soon and go get one, the boss is in Wyoming with his family.
Bump!
Love the ideas so far.
Yeah it doesn't necessarily have to be a single fish but a tank is dedicated to something in particular. Just curious what you guys would think. I have a lot of smaller tanks like sub 30 in different shapes and sizes and I've been thinking about ideas and about what kind of cool things I could do with them. Anglers look really cool if you can find a nice one but they're expensive and they hardly move. Feeding them is fun now, watching them throw out and flick around there angler. Like I mentioned I was considering doing something to the extent of just GSP and zoa's then maybe put a small group of of species that do well in groups. I found that if you try to put a variety of species in a smaller tank even if it's perfectly within the bioload there's a lot of things there is a lot of things that can get complicated even if everyone's supposed to be peaceful and reef safe.
That and I'm interested in anything that people done before or ideas that the community would have. I've already heard some pretty cool sounding ideas.
That I've considered keeping just a single smaller puffer since they tend to be pretty sociable fish from my experience, but I have to wait around and find one with nice coloration that obviously won't grow huge.
Yeah it doesn't necessarily have to be a single fish but a tank is dedicated to something in particular. Just curious what you guys would think. I have a lot of smaller tanks like sub 30 in different shapes and sizes and I've been thinking about ideas and about what kind of cool things I could do with them. Anglers look really cool if you can find a nice one but they're expensive and they hardly move. Feeding them is fun now, watching them throw out and flick around there angler. Like I mentioned I was considering doing something to the extent of just GSP and zoa's then maybe put a small group of of species that do well in groups. I found that if you try to put a variety of species in a smaller tank even if it's perfectly within the bioload there's a lot of things there is a lot of things that can get complicated even if everyone's supposed to be peaceful and reef safe.
That and I'm interested in anything that people done before or ideas that the community would have. I've already heard some pretty cool sounding ideas.
That I've considered keeping just a single smaller puffer since they tend to be pretty sociable fish from my experience, but I have to wait around and find one with nice coloration that obviously won't grow huge.
I always kept my anglers in refugium style tanks with macro algae and perhaps some gorgonians and sponges to add some color.
IF I WAS going to do one fish, I would get a Weedy. It would require a larger tank but with a proper seascape it could be totally stunning.
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garden eel, seahorse/pipefish/mandarin, eel/predator, waspfish, frogfish/angler, clingfish, cuttlefish?
individually, of course. sooo many to choose from haha
individually, of course. sooo many to choose from haha
Yeah I'd love to try pipe fish too, but for my research they're a bit hard to take care of based on their diet
I'm in the planning stages for a group of clownfish with anemones. It may not remain single-species, as a few other fish may get added such as sand sifters or cleaner fish, and there will also be invertebrates for a clean-up-crew.
Weedy sea dragons have been my dream for a long time since observing them at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago 20+ years ago! I always counted it an impossibility, and it likely still is due to high price (and I thought they were endangered and might require special permitting?), but it is interesting to see that it might be possible.IF I WAS going to do one fish, I would get a Weedy. It would require a larger tank but with a proper seascape it could be totally stunning.
Weedy Sea Dragon, 12″ Captive Bred (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) – Advanced Aquatic Ecosystems, LLC.
I’ve always been fascinated and slightly freaked out by mantis shrimp. I think I’d end up enjoy having one.
With technology in the aquarium industry approving their fish that you could keep now that 10 years ago you couldn't. I remember working in lfs and people would come in asking if the owner can get in see horses and he would tell them yes I can but they are going to die.
I've managed to keep weedy scorpions before. I once got my hands on a purple weedy scorpion fish, or at least that's what I thought it was, rhinopias fondosa, but things honestly did not go well with acclamation. I had been preparing the qt tank for quite a while based on parameters I was given ahead of time and when I received it they were very different. But still, maybe give it another 5 10 years and people will be keeping fish that were always considered too difficult or rare to keep all over the place
That's looking great. Almost reminds me of the clownfish tank they have at the Georgia aquarium. Just a bunch of huge anemones and clownfish having the time of their lives. Naturally unless you have something like a mantis you want to clean up crew or something to sift and but the dedication and amount of effort it can take to stop that one little thing from going wrong and none of these tanks always impresses me. Keep it up
please do it, and share pics along the way!
Yeah I've been to a couple of aquariums that have gardens of these. I know you got to have a really deep sand bed and from what I've heard there in advanced fish to take care of and relatively hard to find but like I said maybe in 5 or 10 years we'll have better ways to care for these fish and captivity. I personally think that all the passionate people out there about the hobby should be able to keep endangered species that can potentially be bred, or at least marine biologists. Think about it, to my knowledge there are more axolotl in captivity than there are in nature. People took a liking to them and figured out how to breed them practically saved them from Extinction.I'd love to have a colony of spotted garden eels someday!
Love these goofy little guys
oh man, i'd have a tank dedicated to one too!
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Yep if it has to be a "fish" fish, then the Pinnatus.
Quality Marine has them and it says "easy". However I would go for a Leafy.
Yep a small group of 3 or 4. I've seen the concept of a 12" deep box of sand in the corner, and the eels will find it and stay there. But you needs huge quantities of food particles in the water at all times.
Yes and the final choice for eels... the Blue Ribbon Eel... which I had six years before...
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