My children....well kind of.

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My children....well kind of. Reef Fish

My reef tanks seems to occupy more time than the chameleons. My wife calls my fish my children and they kind of are.

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I used to have a salt water tank myself .. its huge, 8ft x 4ft x 3ft . I see you have both corals , sea aneamonea, yellow tank, trigger, forgot what is the red tiger stripe fish is already .. but i know they are expensive ! queen tank o something, and the famous taurus tank. very very very nice ... love it ...but i cannot afford the time .. too mtime consuming .. you must be a very very very patient person ! .

seriously, i could gazed at my fish for hours and hours, love them to death, but like i said .. we gave up on the hobby as it cosumed to much time and effort ... full respect for your effort ...
 

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addin gto that .. its a hard job trying to mix and match the fish .. 60% success rate ..to mic the fish together .. 40% the fish died or we need to return them because of incompability ..
 
Yong, I like the copperband you have. I also have a copperband in my reef and it is like a gold stripped zebra racing around the tank. Probably my favorite fish and he never touches coral, nor does the flame angle. The red, tiger striped fish, is a flame angle. I also have a pair of snowflake clowns and a maroon gold stripe clown. Plus, a fridmani psuedochromis. There is way too much coral to count.

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im very impressed with your reef. If you see my tank, its nothing to boast about .. i know its shabby, but it was difficult to stabilize the water condition. Anyway, at first, we had a reef and a fish tank.. i that didnt work, to us .. its either the reef or the fish .. and we opt to keep the fish but gave up on the corals. this was for a good 8 years befor we call it quit.

I LOVE UR FLAME ANGEL .. its very catchy ... wish i had a fish tank like that ... AND I DEFINITLY KNOW HOW MUCH EFFORT YOU PUT INTO THIS.... thumbs up. no dr shrimp??

I know its non of my business.. but would love to see some mandarine fish, emporer and queen angel .little blue damsel. would add so much ... (jus tbeing nosy) ..btw .. doesnt your trigger fish eat the corals?
 
im very impressed with your reef. If you see my tank, its nothing to boast about .. i know its shabby, but it was difficult to stabilize the water condition. Anyway, at first, we had a reef and a fish tank.. i that didnt work, to us .. its either the reef or the fish .. and we opt to keep the fish but gave up on the corals. this was for a good 8 years befor we call it quit.

I LOVE UR FLAME ANGEL .. its very catchy ... wish i had a fish tank like that ... AND I DEFINITLY KNOW HOW MUCH EFFORT YOU PUT INTO THIS.... thumbs up. no dr shrimp??

I know its non of my business.. but would love to see some mandarine fish, emporer and queen angel .little blue damsel. would add so much ... (jus tbeing nosy) ..btw .. doesnt your trigger fish eat the corals?

Thanks for the compliments and yes it is a lot of work and $! I can't keep shrimp or my trigger will dispatch them. I will eventually get a mandarin, but not an emporer or queen angle. No damsels either. My trigger doesn't eat coral and my experience most do not. They could eat smaller fish. Therefore, it is best to feed him a silverside on one side of the tank first. Then offer the other fish food on the opposite side of the tank. Also, the trigger, Naso, and tang love live clams. I just crack open the shell and rubberband it to a rock.
 
What do you feed your flame angel? I have an 120 gallon salt water that is fish only at the moment, but our flame won't eat :-( Had him for a month or so, but now he's looking pretty scrawny and we've never actually seen him eat since we got him. water is perfect..so I have no idea:confused:
 
He eats frozen angel / butterfly food, squid, brine, and mysis. I soak their food in a cup of RO/DI water. In the water I ADD selcon, zoo plankton, and garlic. Then I place frozen prepared foods in the same cup and let them dissolve. I also soak Nori wraps in the mixture and then rubber band the nori to a rock, drop it in the tank and let the tangs pick at it.
 
when i had my fish last time and they dont eat fish food as yet . we usually tie a piece of vege.. sush as cabbbage leaves on a rock and throw it down the tank. and it looks like seaweed, thus they will eat it ..

its hard to tell on salt water fish, sometimes the fish are caught using anesthetic chemicals.. and would be fine in 2 weeks time before they are dead .. some are just not used to enviroment, thats y it took at a long time before we stabilize the ph, and k of the water ... hope this helps ! .
 
when i had my fish last time and they dont eat fish food as yet . we usually tie a piece of vege.. sush as cabbbage leaves on a rock and throw it down the tank. and it looks like seaweed, thus they will eat it ..

its hard to tell on salt water fish, sometimes the fish are caught using anesthetic chemicals.. and would be fine in 2 weeks time before they are dead .. some are just not used to enviroment, thats y it took at a long time before we stabilize the ph, and k of the water ... hope this helps ! .

That is very true. In fact:

Angelfish in General (Centropyge, Chaetodontoplus, Apolemichthys, etc. spp.): are among the more common fish collected using cyanide, so paying particularly close attention to their behavior and appearance before purchase is advised.

Always....I repeat...ALWAYS...quarantine a new fish before adding to your display! In fact, every new fish is given a formalin dip and then run through hyposalinity. They stay in a QT for 10 weeks minimum. I never use copper! This gives me a chance to kill all parasites, and spot any illness. I also get a chance to power feed new arrivals and acclimate them to my environment. When they go in my display tanks, they are well fed, very strong, and can handle the stress of being in the new display with strong tank mates.
 
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that is very true. In fact:

Angelfish in general (centropyge, chaetodontoplus, apolemichthys, etc. Spp.): Are among the more common fish collected using cyanide, so paying particularly close attention to their behavior and appearance before purchase is advised.

Always....i repeat...always...quarantine a new fish before adding to your display! In fact, every new fish is given a formalin dip and then run through hyposalinity. They stay in a qt for 10 weeks minimum. I never use copper! This gives me a chance to kill all parasites, and spot any illness. I also get a chance to power feed new arrivals and acclimate them to my environment. When they go in my display tanks, they are well fed, very strong, and can handle the stress of being in the new display with strong tank mates.

spot on ....
 
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