Post your Blackcap Basslets here!
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aclimateme
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khaosreign
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I have a black cap. he has to be my fav of everything in our tank. when i get a chance I'll take a couple of pics and post them. He looks way cool under just the blue lights don't you think.
I also bumped a thread with a couple of old pics when i first put him in the tank. which was a while ago.
I also bumped a thread with a couple of old pics when i first put him in the tank. which was a while ago.
saltn00b
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alyssia
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Originally Posted by FishyGurl
awesome tank! I love your black cap basslet! i have a question for all of you blackcap basslet owners where are they most of the day? like do they hide or do they swim all around the tank?
and keep posting pictures of them and maybe a description of how yours acts too!
I have heard that they are very deepwater fish, and love caves. Mine stays in the very bottom of my tank under some rockwork alot. I've figured out where he "lives" now that I rearranged everything and I see him peeking out alot. He comes out at feeding time too. I think I read somewhere once that they are supposed to be pretty aggressive, but I've never seen mine bother anything.
Khaos and saltnoob, do you find that your blackcaps are prone to ich?
awesome tank! I love your black cap basslet! i have a question for all of you blackcap basslet owners where are they most of the day? like do they hide or do they swim all around the tank?
and keep posting pictures of them and maybe a description of how yours acts too!
I have heard that they are very deepwater fish, and love caves. Mine stays in the very bottom of my tank under some rockwork alot. I've figured out where he "lives" now that I rearranged everything and I see him peeking out alot. He comes out at feeding time too. I think I read somewhere once that they are supposed to be pretty aggressive, but I've never seen mine bother anything.
Khaos and saltnoob, do you find that your blackcaps are prone to ich?
saltn00b
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prone to ich? he was quarantined without hypo , with no problems. ich has not entered my tank in a long time, and it was before the BCB came along.
i believe that is true, they are collected at depths over 100', however i am very happy with mine because as you can see in the pics he is out, and he is out alll day, just sorta hovering around chilling, but usually stays near his personal caves, and rarely will go to the other half of the tank, unless there is food there and its not flowing over to his side.
definitely very proud of this lil guy , one of my favorites in the tank.
no signs of aggression as of yet.
he did one time get his head caught in a little hole in one of the barnacle shells, and we had to perform emergency surgeory. his mouth was wide open and he looked dead! but we finally freed him, and he had a white scratch across is head in the 'neck' area. it was kind of cool to watch it heal, because it first filled in purple, and the black line had a purple seperator, and then eventually filled in with black. hes a champ!
i believe that is true, they are collected at depths over 100', however i am very happy with mine because as you can see in the pics he is out, and he is out alll day, just sorta hovering around chilling, but usually stays near his personal caves, and rarely will go to the other half of the tank, unless there is food there and its not flowing over to his side.
definitely very proud of this lil guy , one of my favorites in the tank.
no signs of aggression as of yet.
he did one time get his head caught in a little hole in one of the barnacle shells, and we had to perform emergency surgeory. his mouth was wide open and he looked dead! but we finally freed him, and he had a white scratch across is head in the 'neck' area. it was kind of cool to watch it heal, because it first filled in purple, and the black line had a purple seperator, and then eventually filled in with black. hes a champ!
alyssia
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Originally Posted by saltn00b
prone to ich? he was quarantined without hypo , with no problems. ich has not entered my tank in a long time, and it was before the BCB came along.
i believe that is true, they are collected at depths over 100', however i am very happy with mine because as you can see in the pics he is out, and he is out alll day, just sorta hovering around chilling, but usually stays near his personal caves, and rarely will go to the other half of the tank, unless there is food there and its not flowing over to his side.
definitely very proud of this lil guy , one of my favorites in the tank.
no signs of aggression as of yet.
he did one time get his head caught in a little hole in one of the barnacle shells, and we had to perform emergency surgeory. his mouth was wide open and he looked dead! but we finally freed him, and he had a white scratch across is head in the 'neck' area. it was kind of cool to watch it heal, because it first filled in purple, and the black line had a purple seperator, and then eventually filled in with black. hes a champ!
I asked if it was prone to ich b/c mine came with ich. I did hypo for a month, put him in the DT, and he was fine for about 4 months, then suddenly had ich again, even though nothing else had ich and I hadn't added anything new. So into hypo he went again. That was about 5 months ago and so far, so good.
prone to ich? he was quarantined without hypo , with no problems. ich has not entered my tank in a long time, and it was before the BCB came along.
i believe that is true, they are collected at depths over 100', however i am very happy with mine because as you can see in the pics he is out, and he is out alll day, just sorta hovering around chilling, but usually stays near his personal caves, and rarely will go to the other half of the tank, unless there is food there and its not flowing over to his side.
definitely very proud of this lil guy , one of my favorites in the tank.
no signs of aggression as of yet.
he did one time get his head caught in a little hole in one of the barnacle shells, and we had to perform emergency surgeory. his mouth was wide open and he looked dead! but we finally freed him, and he had a white scratch across is head in the 'neck' area. it was kind of cool to watch it heal, because it first filled in purple, and the black line had a purple seperator, and then eventually filled in with black. hes a champ!
I asked if it was prone to ich b/c mine came with ich. I did hypo for a month, put him in the DT, and he was fine for about 4 months, then suddenly had ich again, even though nothing else had ich and I hadn't added anything new. So into hypo he went again. That was about 5 months ago and so far, so good.
saltn00b
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not so strange for fish to come with ich, i QT every time now, and i would say at least 50% of all fish i get from any and all sources come with it. to not QT is to play russian roulette. very strange, however, that he got it again... with out adding anything?? did you add coral or LR or sand perhaps?
i suppose it is possible that he never really got rid of it. and had it in very small, unnoticable amounts.
you'd have to ask the pros tho.
i suppose it is possible that he never really got rid of it. and had it in very small, unnoticable amounts.
you'd have to ask the pros tho.
saltn00b
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yea people have reported that adding coral /rock/ sand caused an outbreak.
this is rare but perfectly logical if you think about the life cycle of the parasite.
during one phase, it needs to embed itself in a calcerous, porous material to grow into the next phase....
thats why i have a bare bottom QT.
this is rare but perfectly logical if you think about the life cycle of the parasite.
during one phase, it needs to embed itself in a calcerous, porous material to grow into the next phase....
thats why i have a bare bottom QT.
alyssia
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Originally Posted by saltn00b
yea people have reported that adding coral /rock/ sand caused an outbreak.
this is rare but perfectly logical if you think about the life cycle of the parasite.
during one phase, it needs to embed itself in a calcerous, porous material to grow into the next phase....
thats why i have a bare bottom QT.
hmmm...I never thought of that advantage to having a bare bottom QT. I just don't want to put LS in there and then kill it with hypo/meds.
yea people have reported that adding coral /rock/ sand caused an outbreak.
this is rare but perfectly logical if you think about the life cycle of the parasite.
during one phase, it needs to embed itself in a calcerous, porous material to grow into the next phase....
thats why i have a bare bottom QT.
hmmm...I never thought of that advantage to having a bare bottom QT. I just don't want to put LS in there and then kill it with hypo/meds.
saltn00b
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an experiment was conducted by a fisheries company that stored hundreds of fish in plastic containers. half of the containers had a cinder block in the middle. that half with the cinder block, nearly all of the fish got ich. the half without did not have one case.
even a fish has it, they will grow and burst, and have no where to go, the life cycle is stopped.
i also do hypo no matter what, run a UV, set the temp to 80.... the bug is beat.
even a fish has it, they will grow and burst, and have no where to go, the life cycle is stopped.
i also do hypo no matter what, run a UV, set the temp to 80.... the bug is beat.
alyssia
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Originally Posted by saltn00b
an experiment was conducted by a fisheries company that stored hundreds of fish in plastic containers. half of the containers had a cinder block in the middle. that half with the cinder block, nearly all of the fish got ich. the half without did not have one case.
even a fish has it, they will grow and burst, and have no where to go, the life cycle is stopped.
i also do hypo no matter what, run a UV, set the temp to 80.... the bug is beat.
Do UV's kill pods?
an experiment was conducted by a fisheries company that stored hundreds of fish in plastic containers. half of the containers had a cinder block in the middle. that half with the cinder block, nearly all of the fish got ich. the half without did not have one case.
even a fish has it, they will grow and burst, and have no where to go, the life cycle is stopped.
i also do hypo no matter what, run a UV, set the temp to 80.... the bug is beat.
Do UV's kill pods?
saltn00b
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here are some great black cap pics:
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/229749/150g-reef-9-months-heat-2
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/229749/150g-reef-9-months-heat-2