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Originally Posted by Jstdv8 if he doesnt eat for a week then you need to start getting concerned. Never seen one pass up ghost shrimp. To train them off of live and onto silver sided get yourself a live silverside or a live goldfish and let him munch on that. then the next time you feed kill...

Originally Posted by imclownfish lionfish eat mysis?? Only when the lion is "bite sized"

porcupine over dogface, niger over humu humu, hippo tang over yellow These are strictly based on looks for me. Yellows tend to be more bold than hippos though and with a puffer, maroon, and powder brown you might never see a shy hippo outside of feeding times..

Ok so I'm picking up 3 of these little guys to be going into a 10g qt. I'll let everyone know what I'm doing and what kind of success I have with them.

Cranberry-- What type of lion is that in your pic? Is it going after a mysis shrimp there?

Originally Posted by srfisher17 ........but isn't your DT on the same system as the holding tank, or am I reading it wrong? If it is, all the fish in your DT are exposed to any parasite/disease in your holding tank. no dt and holding tank are separate. holding tank is a 60g plumbed with a 20g...

btter the 1 or 2 fish I might have in the holding tank than the $100's of dollars of fish in my dt...

Originally Posted by AquaKnight Pretty good. One point of concern would if that separate tank is plumbed to your DT, and the baby hippo does have some disease, you'll be pumping the disease right into your DT. Yes you're right. I actually have a 20g tank plumbed into a 60g tank that I use as a...

Originally Posted by AquaKnight The problem is indeed related to food, and is two-fold. First, yep, sometimes it's hard to get extremely small fish to eat prepared foods. The main issue is most of the foods we offer are simply too big for their little mouths to swallow. And on the flip side...

Sweet! I'm doing it. Low stress and lots of food. Pretty simple.

Originally Posted by Flower Stress...they can't handle any stress. Keep the tank warm and don't have it around bullies. My tang was the size of my pinkie fingernail, he was a freebie...he is now about 3.5 inches and growing. I heard the same thing on another site. Not many people have had...

Ok so I've heard from several people that the tiny hippo tangs are not hardy at all. Why is this? Hard to get them to eat? Weak immune system? Very sensitive to water quality? What is the trick to getting one that will survive?

Originally Posted by fishkid13 As always... Yes! The only reason I'm not using one on my 120g is because I don't have the money yet to buy a 40w uv. I love them.

Do you have any update pics or just new information on what is going on??

How fast do powder blue and naso tangs grow in relation to hippos and yellow tangs? I'm considering putting one of either in a 40g tank temporarily while I save up money for my 240 build. I am familiar with the growth rates of both the yellow and hippo tangs so how long would I have with a PBT...