BTLDreef's 180 Tank Build - Page 14

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Originally Posted by spanko 

Tommie Lynn the Copperband is beautiful. What is it eating, not your coral by the looks of it!

It actually died about three weeks ago, I guess I forgot to write it in here. I think I cried for a good 4 hours when it did. Fairly certain the Achilles was to blame, but I can't be positive. The Achilles as a bad idea in hind sight, but nothing I can do about it now.

I was eating algae sheets, mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, emerald entree, etc. Basically any food I put in the tank it would eat or at least take a taste. I never had it nip at a coral, but it also didn't eat aiptasia or majano anemones. I did catch it eating live mysid shrimp from my refugium on a few occasions, but it preferred to just wait and be fed frozen, which I always found odd. It was an absolutely beautiful fish. It came from a reef tank before I had it, but I tested it out in a frag tank before it went in the main tank to make sure it wasn't a coral nipper. If I catch my hippo tang, I definitely will try to get my hands on another one, that and my Naso are my favorite fish in this tank.

It hasn't been a good couple of weeks for my tank :-(

Fingers crossed that nothing else dies, I can't take anymore. I need to go back to trying to catch this damn Blue Hippo like I've wanted to do for months and momma clownfish, she's going in the baby's tank.

I've been trying to convince my husband to let me do a really interesting tank for the baby like a mantis tank (which I have wanted for ages) or an octopus tank, but he's not having it.

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Originally Posted by meowzer 

OH MAN......I am sorry to hear of the losses   :(     I would hate to have to catch my hippo.......I think the only way is probably to tear the tank apartthey are too skiddish and hide so quick

I know! Dumbest fish I've ever owned, seriously! You put your hand in the tank and she swims into a rock trying to get away. I seriously hate her. If I walk near the tank, she hides, completely waste of a fish and she knocks corals over ALL THE TIME! She has to go. It sucks, she's beautiful, it's a Yellow Belly Hippo, and that's why we got her, but I've had enough.

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Originally Posted by Slice 

 

I guess having 2 mantis* in the house is enough, huh?

 

 

*one in training...

LOL, that's what he claims. But come on, how many babies have an octopus tank, that would be awesome!

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Originally Posted by cryptics 

I have one of those acclimate boxes.  They say you can use it to catch fish also.  One end of the box is held up with fishing wire and you put food in the box.  When he goes in you let go of the string and capture him Wiley E Coyote style.  No idea if it actually works but you are welcome to it if you want to try.

I guarantee you it would catch every fish in the tank but her! LOL

One of the downfalls to a large tank with multiple fish.

The first fish it would catch would be the Naso or the Cleaner Wrasse, they have to check out any new thing in the tank. This hippo is going to make me nuts.

My biggest issue, is she's mainly a grazer, doesn't really go after food, which makes it that much harder to catch her. I need to stalk the tank at night for a few days and try to figure out where she sleeps, I think that's going to be my best bet. Why couldn't the Purple and Naso Tangs kill her instead of my Achilles!

Wow! It's been quite a while without any updates. We've been busy and will continue to be. The baby is due in less than 2 weeks!

Here's some quick pics I took with my phone.

10.5 months old:

FTS

Right side

Middle

Left side

Thanks. Hopefully I can get my husband to take some good pics with the camera. I didn't even clean my glass before snapping these, just walked in the fish room with my phone and grabbed a couple to load up. We've had a lot of ups and downs with this tank in the past few months, but that seems to be the story of my life, LOL