What Is your favorate fish doing

lharm

lharm

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Well my favorate fish is jumping up then diving face forward into a rock and having a alge buffet
heres a list of my fish 1=favorate last number= least favorite
1 1.5 inch lawnmower blenny (as above)
2 4.5 inch LM blenny
3 bunch of anenome
4 0.7 inch Crab
5 all my shrimp
6 all my unidentified fish ( and 2 sailfin mollys)
:( and a few fish from the past :(
 
jrb384

jrb384

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bang guy thats an awesome mandarin, how long have you had him? what do they feed on? i've always heard you have to have a well established tank, with plenty growing for them to eat, meaning, u cant just overfeed the tank and let them eat that off the bottom. any ideas?
 
bang guy

bang guy

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Originally posted by jrb384
bang guy thats an awesome mandarin, how long have you had him? what do they feed on? i've always heard you have to have a well established tank, with plenty growing for them to eat, meaning, u cant just overfeed the tank and let them eat that off the bottom. any ideas?
I have a mated pair. They eat Ostracodes mostly but readily pick at Copepods and some Isopods.
I think these fish are extremely hearty but need tiny live food for long term health. I strongly recommend a well established refugium and 100 or so pounds of live rock per Dragonette.
Some will take frozen food but you shouldn't rely on it and there are a lot of other ways to supply pods like pod piles or heavy algae growth.
 
bang guy

bang guy

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No eggs hatched. :(
Raising Mandarin Fry will have to wait until some of my other projects are going better.
Here's the happy couple:
 
kev

kev

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My favorite fish is my dwarf lion... just got him today and he seems to be doing great, I alrdy have him eating and everything. Right now he's just chillin(perched) on the LR. :D
 
lharm

lharm

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My second favorate fish likes to bite everything.
One of my baby shrimp was wandering around and my anenome grabbed him :eek:
 
hairtrigger

hairtrigger

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My favorite fish is a Clown Trigger too. Unfortunately, my 10 inch Clown is in someone else's tank now. :(
I sold him cause I am going back to a reef. Thats really cool, but I do miss my clown. He was awesome. :)
 
lharm

lharm

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Today i went to a fish store and saw a small clown trigger poor guy was covered in ick if i had a hypo tank and if i had 59 dollars i would have tried to cure him. I wish pet stores would see that fish are LIVING ANIMALS and it should be just as sad to let a fish die as it is to let a dog die. But i did buy a pencill urchin.
Hes in the tank getting to know whats were.
Poor Trigger :( :( :( :( THE STUPID THING IS THE PET STORES HAVE ALL THE TANK CONNECTED ICK SPREADS TROUGHOUT THE TANKS :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
jillian ayers

jillian ayers

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They have all the tanks connected?! :mad: And, that's a beautiful pair of mandarins. If they ever do successfully have fry, send them to me please :)
 
reefersx2

reefersx2

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My favorite fish is a Vlamingi tang. Bang guy, I think it's really cool that you got two mandarins to mate.:cool:
 
clarkiiboi

clarkiiboi

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Just curious for knowledge, is the male the one with the higher/longer front fin? I'm impressed by that by the way....wouldnt expect any less from ya though ;)
 
lharm

lharm

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This is the shape of the connecting glass
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Notice the gaps they do it because of the filtering system.
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bang guy

bang guy

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Originally posted by ClarkiiBoi
Just curious for knowledge, is the male the one with the higher/longer front fin? I'm impressed by that by the way....wouldnt expect any less from ya though ;)
Yes, I'm happy that the picture clearly shows the difference between male and female.
Keep in mind though that sometimes a tankmate at the LFS will nip the fin and it may look like a female. Males fight to the death... often both die.
 
iceburger

iceburger

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Lharm,
I work in a LFS, and yes I do know that fish are living things, most LFS have their SW system tanks all connected, this way one huge filter can filter the whole system, it is just more cost effective and therefore we can offer a wider selection of fish/corals/inverts
at my LFS our track record is very very good for keeping SW fish, in the year that i've been working there I can remember one SW fish that has died, not counting those who came in sick or dead already, and yes I do know that all LFS keep their fish in tanks that are too small for them, honestly I personally would'nt put a tang in anything smaller than a 180, but that is just impossible for LFSs especially smaller bussinesses to do so because of the cost, sorry to flame on ya, but thats just the way it is and there is'nt much that will change that
~Bryan
 
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