Fianl Stocking List. 2ND TO LAST !!!!!!!!!

[beatlesfan]

ok soory to bother you guys but i think i have finally come up with my stocking lsit for my 125g.
Yellow Tang (1)
Purcula(pair)
Purple firefish (3)
Lawnmower blenny(1)
Scooter Blenny(1) (not sure about this one i just liek the way it looks like to ahs feet)
Golden wrase(1)
Coral beuty or flame angel (1 or the other)
I will be making a final post with equipment live stock abotu of LR/Sand so be hopeful that will be the last of me for the next...... uuuum like 3 days.

 

[fedukeford]

Looks good. Your going to have to have at least 100 lbs of live rock to keep the scooter blenny alive, since they mostly just eat pods. If you like the way the scooter looks like it has "feet" you may want to look into a phsycadelic (spelling) manderin or a green manderin, which are in the same family as scooters but are much more colorful. You could probley have a couple more small fish or one more larger fish if you wanted to.
Feduke

 

[tekdave]

Scooters are very cool fish and have personality that you would never get in a manderin. Manderins are more colorful though but the one I had many yrs ago you rarely ever saw. Anytime I sit in front of the tank here that has the Scooter in it he is front and center and will change colors and start showing off raising his dorsal fin which is quite pretty.

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by fedukeford
Looks good. Your going to have to have at least 100 lbs of live rock to keep the scooter blenny alive, since they mostly just eat pods. If you like the way the scooter looks like it has "feet" you may want to look into a phsycadelic (spelling) manderin or a green manderin, which are in the same family as scooters but are much more colorful. You could probley have a couple more small fish or one more larger fish if you wanted to.
Feduke
You have that backwards. The scooter blennies will eat the algae. The mandarines eat pods and need 100+lbs of very mature live rock.

 

[travis89]

Scotter blennies are the same as mandarins except they are more willing to eat frozen foods. Neither will eat algae.

 

[maeistero]

:thinking: sep is right, my scooters eat green algae. mandarin eats only pods. i wouldn't recommend anyone a mandarin. it is a beautiful fish, but i only see mine once a month or so. they tend to be out mostly at night (when copepods are out). i only tried mine after being sure my 'fuges were fully stocked and dependable. if you can get your hands on some quality well-cured lr shelf, it will sit in the shadows and you can see it.
if i'm correct they are a mandarin goby and scooter blenny as well. very different although they look and move similar.

research and tell

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by Travis89
Scotter blennies are the same as mandarins except they are more willing to eat frozen foods. Neither will eat algae.
No travis, you are incorrect on this one. Mandarines do not accept any prepared foods. Scooter blennies will eat anything and their main diet is algae.

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by maeistero
:thinking: sep is right, my scooters eat green algae. mandarin eats only pods. i wouldn't recommend anyone a mandarin. it is a beautiful fish, but i only see mine once a month or so. they tend to be out mostly at night (when copepods are out). i only tried mine after being sure my 'fuges were fully stocked and dependable. if you can get your hands on some quality well-cured lr shelf, it will sit in the shadows and you can see it.
if i'm correct they are a mandarin goby and scooter blenny as well. very different although they look and move similar.

research and tell

Thanks for backing me. Let me clarify a point. Yes, the Mandarine is a goby, but they live off of a very specific diet. It is like saying ( and I know you didn't, just making a point) that a cleaner wrassie is like any other wrassie. They are from the same family but have very different dietary needs. One can live in captivity and one can't without their natural food source. Once in a while you will get a mandarine to accept prepared foods, but he will never thrive without his natural food source.

 

[maeistero]

i got mine unexpectedly free, little guy at around 1.5".
two 'fuge's, chaeto and some other plant later the guy finally shows up. i was lucky in getting some rather large natural lr plates that i set up higher in the tank. he hides out on a halfway shelf i setup in the shadow. sometimes it will eat a bit of mysis or the ground up head of broccolli, but not often.
and i do see your point on the wrasse family. but mandarins and gobies are very different in many ways. there's been a lot of talk about reclassifying.
is it just us two on the board tonite? lol

 

[lolly1]

Originally Posted by Beatlesfan
ok soory to bother you guys but i think i have finally come up with my stocking lsit for my 125g.
Yellow Tang (1)
Purcula(pair)
Purple firefish (3)
Lawnmower blenny(1)
Scooter Blenny(1) (not sure about this one i just liek the way it looks like to ahs feet)
Golden wrase(1)
Coral beuty or flame angel (1 or the other)
I will be making a final post with equipment live stock abotu of LR/Sand so be hopeful that will be the last of me for the next...... uuuum like 3 days.
I just recently got a lawnmower blenny added to my tank and was told to stay away from getting any other fish with similar shapes or habits as the lawnmower can bit nasty towards them. Perhaps the scooter would get picked on by the lawnmower?

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by maeistero
i got mine unexpectedly free, little guy at around 1.5".
two 'fuge's, chaeto and some other plant later the guy finally shows up. i was lucky in getting some rather large natural lr plates that i set up higher in the tank. he hides out on a halfway shelf i setup in the shadow. sometimes it will eat a bit of mysis or the ground up head of broccolli, but not often.
and i do see your point on the wrasse family. but mandarins and gobies are very different in many ways. there's been a lot of talk about reclassifying.
is it just us two on the board tonite? lol

Yes, apparently it is just us!!!! Mandarines and cleaner wrassies are my exception to allowances. Cleaner wrassies only live off of parasites and it destroys the reef fish when they are removed. But Mandarines (for the most part) NEED 100+lbs of very mature rock. You will not sway me on this Maeistro, They have to have it and will diminish in health if they do not.

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by Lolly1
I just recently got a lawnmower blenny added to my tank and was told to stay away from getting any other fish with similar shapes or habits as the lawnmower can bit nasty towards them. Perhaps the scooter would get picked on by the lawnmower?

I have read that, but know people who keep both succesfully. How big is your tank?

 

[tekdave]

I had a manderin in a 50g for 3-4 yrs until I broke it down and this was before there was such a thing as a refugium. He prolly grew atleast 1" in that time he was about 4"long when I took him out.

 

[maeistero]

Originally Posted by sepulatian
But Mandarines (for the most part) NEED 100+lbs of very mature rock. You will not sway me on this Maeistro, They have to have it and will diminish in health if they do not.

well known and researched before. i decided i didn't want one, but once i came across over 400lbs rock and free fish rescue i decided i could try it. it has probably 200lbs in my 180gal which is usually why i can never find my smaller fish. i also believe this is why i can keep triggers with the little guys. the other rock is held in the other tanks until i get the trap figured out to separate them out.
right now my reef is a reef/fo. :help:

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by maeistero
well known and researched before. i decided i didn't want one, but once i came across over 400lbs rock and free fish rescue i decided i could try it. it has probably 200lbs in my 180gal which is usually why i can never find my smaller fish. i also believe this is why i can keep triggers with the little guys. the other rock is held in the other tanks until i get the trap figured out to separate them out.
right now my reef is a reef/fo. :help:

But you just proved my point. You had adequate rock!!!

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by TekDave
I had a manderin in a 50g for 3-4 yrs until I broke it down and this was before there was such a thing as a refugium. He prolly grew atleast 1" in that time he was about 4"long when I took him out.
There is always an exception to every rule. What did your mandarine eat?

 

[maeistero]

i'm getting lost in all these threads!!!
time for another site for my last hour!!!
nice talking with you sep, much respect.

 

[sepulatian]

I respect you as well, but what did your mandarin eat? This is in diret relation to this post.

 

[maeistero]

ok, mysis sheets a bit on the corners. just the smallest of the brocolli tops (taken off and ground my turtles eat the stalk). that's all i would see under normal lighting. that was only until the yellow/mimic (i'm not sure) tang got there. then it runs back to the dark. very little. it eats under moonlights and i see it on the back glass under the returns eating cope's in the morning if i'm there. that is how mine eats. it's my first, so i'm not making any huge presumptions on it, i just do my best to keep it plump. 4 months now and i don't see any signs of stress so far.

 

[beatlesfan]

Originally Posted by fedukeford
Looks good. Your going to have to have at least 100 lbs of live rock to keep the scooter blenny alive, since they mostly just eat pods. If you like the way the scooter looks like it has "feet" you may want to look into a phsycadelic (spelling) manderin or a green manderin, which are in the same family as scooters but are much more colorful. You could probley have a couple more small fish or one more larger fish if you wanted to.
Feduke
yeah i REALLY wanted to get a mandarin but i heard they eat tons of algae and vegetation like the tangs and i wasnt sure they could both go together