Exactly like that lol! Mine in occasion latches on to a coral while its sleeping but other than that he hangs near rockwork or roams around in open water. Well, what open water i have in my tank anyway lolLike skipping a stone?
I only caught him hovering over them, never actually saw the nip.
If it wasnt for my daughter Dori would have been tacos long ago…
lol I had a borbonias for several months but i think it died because my tank got hot (83) over the summer. I currently have a gem tang. If i had room i would have a pair of Watanabe angelfish. Would also like a CB golden angelfish but again, no room and i also have the CB regal and a flameangel already. Also eyeballed the kingi angelfish but my tank is too small for one.
When i get my big tank im planning to create a section with rocks where i can put about 8” deep sand and get some spotted and black ribbon garden eels. Load up the rocks retaining the sand with some encrusters and LPS with a big arch that goes across the sand bed with acros on it so it sort of shaded the eel bed
They are already encrusting on the egg crate. Im going to start making rockwork to get the acros on the rockwork soon. Its going to be a process and very difficult trying to fit all the frags on rockwork in my 30x30x30 tank lol. The bigger tank isnt coming till after the wedding in may at least.
Dispars or purple queens. I want to have a shoal of purple queens when i get a bigger tank.
I think my worst mistake was doing a big water change and taking my time to do it... Left a lot of the SPS on top level out of water way too long so I think I basically dried out a bunch accidentally... As far as I can tell that was main reason... Smaller contributions as well
I've gotten from Dinkins - they usually add a few extras in theirs. May be able to contact them and see if they can give you a discount on a bulk number assuming they have enough.
I don't think it was them being out of water, even for a really long time. Corals are fairly adapted to that, what I think it is the coral being exposed to insanely high par. I've burned a Blasto and a couple LPs doing maintenance and not thinking and setting them on the lid of the tank. With my par meter, without water as a buffer the par is like 1500. I think it burns the coral with just light shock. I turn off my lights now when I do a water change if I know I'm going to be tinkering around a lot.
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I hear hanging a small mirror on one end of the tank can help alleviate some aggression in Tangs. I've never tried it though, so can't speak from experience.
I had this conversation with my old boss yesterday! He was asking what "cool" fish he should get for his new 32! All I could come up with was Molly Miller, Springeri Damsel, Springeri Dottyback, Court Jester or Hector's Goby, Clown Goby, and a Yasha Haza/Randall's Shrimp combo...I've kept a lot of FW fish over the years, some more exotic, but corals and SW was new and exciting. So many fish are not reef safe, or I just don't have room for them.
I have thought about multiple tanks, maybe a FOWLR, I still like corals though, so it's a compromise.
Garden eels are cool, but then mixing fish, what's safe together and what's not.
Besides, I haven't heard of a successful fish fragging yet.
I had a six-line in my 75 (36"*18"*24") back maybe 10 years ago. My clowns used to bully him.
All good suggestions. Maybe one small fairy wrasse like a mccosker, or a possum wrasse. Royal Gramma are a staple, long nose hawkfish, depending on stocking of coral he could get a Croucher goby of any color.
That's why a Halichoeres and Springeri a good addition. They help keep the pest populations down.
I'm looking for a Red-Lined Halichoeres....
I mentioned the Springeri Dottyback but didn't think about the Royal Gramma. I'll pass that along as a possible "last fish to add".
