killrbee7 i may be getting a blue throat trigger and blue hippo tang this weekend. Haven't decided yet.
I have a blue hippo, she can be a bit of a jerk lol. I love triggers, so definitely on board with your purchases! Send pics of the blue throat if you get it.
Realize I haven’t posted any pics lately. Up to 14 total now. Latest addition was an Australian Harlequin Tusk, which was the fish I’ve wanted since I got into tanks. Love that guy.
Id basically be trading a maintenance visit for them so I'm tempted to get both. I think we have enough tangs that are larger now that I'm not too worried about the hippo being a jerk.
Looks great. I love the aquascape. That's the one thing about us having so many tangs is we have to have a ton of caves and such so they don't fight over a home.
One reason I don't buy from the LFS around here. This little foxface is in a tank with a Niger trigger, porcupine puffer, blue hippo, blue eye tang. All probably 3 times his size.
Added a blue hippo and blue throat trigger. killrbee7 is there anything specific you feed your trigger?
Our Lt tang and Vlaminigi tang are getting so damn big. And blue hippos really are dumb. Ours swam upside down for a minute yesterday before it realized what was going on and righted itself.
Some food got into the wavemakers right when I broke out the camera so the water wasn't super clear but here's some from today.
killrbee7 the trigger was in his cave so I didn't get a good pic of him. Had to snap one with my phone a few minutes ago.
Watching the blue hippo tang swim is hilarious. Its like the side fins don't work in unison. Its like each one has a mind of its own lol
Best guess is an eye injury that got infected. No other fish are showing any problems and parameters haven't really changed.
Man at the effect the Hawaii ban is having already. Really glad I have two adult yellow tangs. Prices keep climbing and I may be tempted to sell one lol.
A little different angle, but here’s my contribution... Never tried salt. Definitely couldn’t keep up with those reefer prices TBH.
Got some new pics. Finally got all the tangs in one shot. Lt Dan has gotten large, he's got junk in trunk.
This is stunning. I’ve been researching planted takes for the past few years, just unfortunately don’t have the room for anything right now.
My brother wound up doing a planted freshwater and loves it. He added an oxygen injector or whatever and his growth skyrocketed.
Cheers - I appreciate that. If you’re really interested, lots of people do nano tanks these days (<10 gallons) so they don’t actually take up much real estate. It’s actually pretty easy once you mess up enough times and understand the basics. Light + fertilizers + CO2 = you can grow anything.
I want to do a nano reef tank after we move this year. I've seen some amazing 5 gallon and less ones online.
I also want to set up a tank just for our Horseshoe crab after we move. He's getting too big for our tank. I'm thinking something long and wide, but shallow. Minimal rock, minimal flow, lots of sand and some small fish and inverts. Something to give him lots of space to crawl around and dig.
I looked into that for a minute a few years back as a way to tiptoe into salt, but it just seemed so susceptible to small things causing big headaches due to such little water volume. I saw some setups with refugiums bigger than the display tank to try and help with that, but it definitely scared me off.
Everything about salt scared me for years. I think it's definitely gotten more user friendly now but still expensive. You're right on about the water volume. We had so many problems with our smaller tank, granted a lot was me not knowing what I was doing, and now I'm so hands-off on the 180. I change the water in the sump once every few weeks and other than that it's basically running itself. Minus some little issues that pop up here and there.
Since my last update, we have had one murder of a Bella Sleeper Goby, and added a foxface and more recently an Ornate Leopard Wrasse. The wrasse had me a little nervous, as she didn’t come out of the sand bed at all for a few days, then would only be out an hour and not eat. Fortunately, the last three nights, she has been out for a few hours and eaten like a champ.
Leopard wrasse are awesome but definitely very much nocturnal sand dwellers. Such beautiful fish though. We've added 5 more lyretail anthias and 5 blue gudgeon gobies (haven't seen the genies since we added them Thursday but im sure they are just buried in the sand.
Owsley any idea how long a Horseshoe crab can stay alive flipped upside down as long as he's in water? I'm trying to find a better home for Frank the Tank. We have too much rock work and flow so he keeps getting "stuck" in positions like this. I'm more worried someone is gonna go after that soft underbelly. [
Just a classic Foxface Lo. Everyone gets along with him except our Emperor Angel. I really got him to help with maintaining the algal growth on the rocks, although that got a lot better when I adjusted the intensity of white light.
Yea from what I've read most fish will leave foxfaces alone due to those venomous fins up top. Works really well since they are such a chill fish. We have a magnificent one and love him. He absolutely will destroy algae. So will yellow tangs if you can get your hands on one without paying $500 now with the Hawaii ban in effect.
Wanted to get a yellow tang a couple months ago and regret not snatching one up. Now they are nonexistent at my store due to the ban.
I've thought about selling one of mine as the price has gone up but the chances of having two adults living together and not killing each other is pretty slim. At least in a tank our size, so I don't think I would sell. Of course if that price starts getting close to 4 figures that could change my tune.
Added some peppermint shrimp about a month ago. One ended up in the refugium in the sump and has went from looking like a normal (red) peppermint shrimp to looking like something that crept up from the depths lol.
Hi fish keeping friends, I am going to buy a "Fluval SPEC Aquarium Kit, Aquarium with LED Lighting and 3-Stage Filtration System, 5-Gallon" within the next few months. It will be my first aquarium or tank experience. I want to use it mainly as a planted tank with shrimp. It is only a 5gallon, which limits options obviously, but I was told by an enthusiast that a single dwarf puffer or the likes would be fine. Should I start the tank out as strictly planted, let it grow, add some shrimp and then look at the addition of a single small fish? I don't want to jump into anything that would be over my head and not manageable.
Your best bet would be to start it with lots of plants and a couple shrimp. Let it get cycled and everything stable and then add your shrimp. You'll also have better luck with a Betta and shrimp than a dwarf puffer. You're asking for trouble with that combo unless the shrimp are all fully grown and there are plenty of hiding places for both the shrimp and the puffer.
I’m also not sure that tank could support a suitable snail population for a dwarf puffer. Agreed on betta and shrimp, though some dwarf raspboras would look great too.