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kimc
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Nice pictures!! Thanks for sharing!!
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jcrim
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Nice pics. I'm surprised to see a puffer and niger trigger in your set-up because they are not reef safe fish. It appears your system is healthy right now, but these two may create havoc at some point.
tennisace
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Originally Posted by jcrim
Nice pics. I'm surprised to see a puffer and niger trigger in your set-up because they are not reef safe fish. It appears your system is healthy right now, but these two may create havoc at some point.
I have had the Niger for a long time now. We do have to get rid of him soon because he is outgrowing the tank. He doesn't bite the other fish, but he will chase them every once in a while. The puffer is small and was the last one put in the tank. He is as calm as a piece of paper lol. But the trigger does have to go soon, he attacks my hand and the razor every time I go to clean the glass. He isn't bad at all though when left alone with the others most of the time. At feeding time he is a monster, he is always hungry even though we feed them 3 times a day and he is so fast, he sometimes jumps out of the water for food, it is the crazy (and amusing) to watch.
Nice pics. I'm surprised to see a puffer and niger trigger in your set-up because they are not reef safe fish. It appears your system is healthy right now, but these two may create havoc at some point.
I have had the Niger for a long time now. We do have to get rid of him soon because he is outgrowing the tank. He doesn't bite the other fish, but he will chase them every once in a while. The puffer is small and was the last one put in the tank. He is as calm as a piece of paper lol. But the trigger does have to go soon, he attacks my hand and the razor every time I go to clean the glass. He isn't bad at all though when left alone with the others most of the time. At feeding time he is a monster, he is always hungry even though we feed them 3 times a day and he is so fast, he sometimes jumps out of the water for food, it is the crazy (and amusing) to watch.
tennisace
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Originally Posted by F1shMan
He doesn't look like he's outgrowing the tank at all. Anyways arent that species of filefish really hard to care for?
He isn't outgrowing it that much, he just eats so much and he attacks us while trying to clean it. He even tries attacking us when we are just peering into the tank, he goes up to the glass and starts trying to bite at us! I don't really want to get rid of him, but he is a real handful. He is a beautiful fish, infact, I havn't seen a Niger triger as nice as him. That picture of him is good, but in real life he looks great! Look at the photo of him in pic of my live rock set up, you can only see half of him, but he isn't dark like most Niger Trigers, he is a beautiful blue with green markings and his fins turn from blue to red at the ends of the fin. He is the beautiful beast. His name is Deamon (wonder why we named him that?
:thinking: lol)
And yes that kind of filefish is hard to take care of, especially in the first week because most starve themselves. Mine eats frozen brine shrimp, but since they can die of malnutrition, I have one of those vitamin supplements that you add to the frozen food while it is thawing. Mine has lived past the first week and he is a pig now. The guy that works at my LFS has one in his tank, and the only thing (and I mean the only thing) he will eat is live brine. Luckily mine isn't that picky. Hopefully with that vitamin supplement he will live for a long time. He is one of the coolest fish in my tank!
Yes my reef isn't exactly normal, but the fish I have get along great and there has never been a fish on fish death (though I used to have a baby SFE that bit a hole in an angel, that eel went back to the LFS real fast). They are all great fish, and it is neat how they interact with one another.
I'll try to take some more pics
He doesn't look like he's outgrowing the tank at all. Anyways arent that species of filefish really hard to care for?
He isn't outgrowing it that much, he just eats so much and he attacks us while trying to clean it. He even tries attacking us when we are just peering into the tank, he goes up to the glass and starts trying to bite at us! I don't really want to get rid of him, but he is a real handful. He is a beautiful fish, infact, I havn't seen a Niger triger as nice as him. That picture of him is good, but in real life he looks great! Look at the photo of him in pic of my live rock set up, you can only see half of him, but he isn't dark like most Niger Trigers, he is a beautiful blue with green markings and his fins turn from blue to red at the ends of the fin. He is the beautiful beast. His name is Deamon (wonder why we named him that?
:thinking: lol) And yes that kind of filefish is hard to take care of, especially in the first week because most starve themselves. Mine eats frozen brine shrimp, but since they can die of malnutrition, I have one of those vitamin supplements that you add to the frozen food while it is thawing. Mine has lived past the first week and he is a pig now. The guy that works at my LFS has one in his tank, and the only thing (and I mean the only thing) he will eat is live brine. Luckily mine isn't that picky. Hopefully with that vitamin supplement he will live for a long time. He is one of the coolest fish in my tank!
Yes my reef isn't exactly normal, but the fish I have get along great and there has never been a fish on fish death (though I used to have a baby SFE that bit a hole in an angel, that eel went back to the LFS real fast). They are all great fish, and it is neat how they interact with one another.
I'll try to take some more pics
tennisace
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Here is another pic of the Niger (he changes his color slightly, sometimes he is deeper blue, sometimes he is almost purple, and sometimes he is blue and green like in the picture above, and sometimes his fins are red at the tips). It is funny how he changes colors deepending on his mood, but he is always beautiful and ferocious.
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sonicboom1
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what kind of rock is that?
I like the colors
I like the colors
swfishonly
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love ur niger
jrandolph1
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Your tank looks fantastic! This hobby is VERY expensive but the rewards are priceless. Keep us updated.
tennisace
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Originally Posted by sonicboom1
what kind of rock is that?
I like the colors
Figi rock, it just has coraline (the light pink stuff) growing all over it. Also the rock was handpicked from the LFS (even though that is more expensive), so I have some pretty nice pieces of rock. And the top big rock that the shrooms sit, on the right, has neon green growing on it, not sure what is causing it, but it looks cool.
Thanks you all for the compliments, I'll take more photos.
what kind of rock is that?
I like the colors
Figi rock, it just has coraline (the light pink stuff) growing all over it. Also the rock was handpicked from the LFS (even though that is more expensive), so I have some pretty nice pieces of rock. And the top big rock that the shrooms sit, on the right, has neon green growing on it, not sure what is causing it, but it looks cool.
Thanks you all for the compliments, I'll take more photos.