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One more note about the genicanthus angels- I must caution against saying they are absolutely reef safe. My bellus angel started out being benign, until it discovered it's inner animal instinct (or something visceral) and then took a nip here, and a nip there.
So what this does is firstly create a situation of receding coral tissue (especially of my open brain, scoly, etc), exacerbated by reduced chance for the coral to regenerate. What's worse, even if it does, the colour is often not the same as the original
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You will be amazed at the sort of burrowing patterns that gobies can make.
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Some reefers have also told me that a good way to keep the angels from eating the corals is to keep them well fed and stuffed with a variety of food like seaweed etc. Any experiences to share?
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as for the small angles of centropyge, I agree with the main article's description of their reef safe-ness. Generally quite benign unless you happen to buy bad natured specimens. since they like to feed on filamentous surface algae, they can supplement the cleaning crew in most tanks
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and then if you have big angels, though the angels are good natured in helping to clean off algae, they will not be very precise and thus nip off some surrounding tissue too. So if you have delicate frags, best to put them in a frag rack, and out of the biting zone of these big guys
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from my experience, after a water change is the most vulnerable, and that additional pecking does not help the sps. Would thus recommend keeping the total number of angels small
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Beautiful, must make sure you have sand to make the goby sit (or sleep) comfortably. Haha
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so which are the circumstances that would make the SPS most vulnerable? I'd say 2 main ones- after a water change (when the SPS have been exposed to air) or after dosing additives
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even the SPS safe angels will peck at the mucus secreting tips of SPS when they are feeling peckish
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thanks mug888, trying to help create better angel tanks
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Dear friends,
I've decided to go green, so I'm switching my MH light setup for my sps tank to a LED fixture. I'm looking to sell my 1 year old 250W Solite MH light- 14000K, brand new bulbs, comes with 2 in-built white T5 tubes and moonlight feature.
Anyone interested please PM me, it's really a great second hand set at a great price!
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big clams= great for absorbing nitrate from the water
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Is led sufficult to keep clams..cost MH could not fit my current setting
led might not be strong enough. but you may compensate by feeding them sufficient phytoplankton
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go google herbivorous fish and see what comes out! fox face rabbitfish eats a whole lot of cabbage
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Green chromis...readily available in lfs.
Schooling fishes.
Not territory
Yes..eat everything.
uh my green chromis stopped swimming together after they got too comfortable with the tank
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my experience with maroons is that they are simply stubborn
mine just stick to a fake coral
and belligerent too!
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Didn't know there is such a chart...
!throw in another clown for them to play! then they will retreat into the anemone because there is competition
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oh and for the sand bed, make sure there are no heavy metal traces because this will totally mess upthe galvanic current navigation system the sharks use to regulate their swimming patterns
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Sharks are not meant for home aquarium as they required large swimming space..do re-consideryeah and also the feeding of the sharks needs to be very precise, even with regular diet plans these guys are temperamental enough to refuse food all of a sudden
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RCT Centropyge resplendens x Centropyge argi
wow, maybe we can try to breed them dwarf angels until they gradually get bigger and no longer are dwarf angels! like what queen victoria did with the pomeranians......
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A v rare pic of thiellei clownfish in the wild.
maybe it's not so much a hybrid as it is a case of incomplete genetic expression in terms of colour morphology
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Some beautiful hybrid lemon (aberrant and smokey, which both are brought in by Irwarna if i remember correctly)
Photo Courtesy of Pacific Islands
how do these hybrids compare in terms of hardiness? from what I studied, the more varied the breeding, the weaker they might be towards whitespot and parasites! any experience to share?
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not suprising. have seen queen angels rip off large chunks of lobos and pratas, sometimes even breaking the calcium skeleton beneath. it's safe to say that holacanthus sp. and pomacanthus sp are not safe with LPS. but it's a different story with SPS. they are usually very safe and don't bother SPS much.
haha the bigger the angel, the more belligerent!
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Bros/Sis,
I was so inspired by Iwarna's angels swimming in their sps display tank that I got meself an insanely beautiful 5-6" Caribbean Queen (from mouth to ends of dorsal filaments).
It is now in my 4 ft but shallow ATS tank for QT. It eats pellets greedily 5 mins upon introduction. As I have a 9' SPS dominated tank, I am very tempted to place it there for the long term. However, the SPS tank also has some sponges, lobos, 1 trachy, sea squirts, cloves, duncan, rics, zoas, clams, rhodactis, favites, candycane, etc.
The question is, will it cause real harm to the LPS if I introduce it say two weeks down the road after fattening it up on live, frozen, pellet, nori and flake foods?
I heard that well fed fish normaly leave corals alone...how?
I can also put it in my FOWLR tank but that tank is not so well lit and water not as pristine as my reef tank and I really want the best for the queen....
Any advice please?
Worried....
Thanks!
well my uncle kept 8 angels in his lps dominated tank and trained them to eat their fill on pellets and flakes. But I don't think it's worth the risk though, especially when your corals are seasoned. It's just a natural reflex for the angels to take a nibble at your corals and sponges, since their diet in the wild consists of sponges, tunicates, sponges etc.
Diatoms, Cyano or Dinoflagellates
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Anyone know which antibiotics are the most effective? And I heard that best this dissolve the powder to make it work better?