Looks good but I’m sure this is considered a LPS.
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Correct, my typo, LPS. Thanks.
Get yourself a nori nibbler. Makes much less of a mess. Beautiful tank.
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Thanks! Fat and happy juvenile purple tangs from ORA via World Wide Corals. Mostly skinny and peculiarly rather tiny yellow tangs from Biota. The purple tangs have grown dramatically. A couple of the yellows have grown, and two yellows remain rather tiny by comparison, and one of the tiny yellows was sold with a birth defect.
Happy to have sourced. Largely peaceful the past eight months, they all school together. Fins recently show bites this spring...hmm...but, then, I added an imported Sohal late last year. No aggression when broadcast feeding. Minimal Sohal aggression towards the purple tangs only when I first place Nori in the clip.
Best wishes
Happy to have sourced. Largely peaceful the past eight months, they all school together. Fins recently show bites this spring...hmm...but, then, I added an imported Sohal late last year. No aggression when broadcast feeding. Minimal Sohal aggression towards the purple tangs only when I first place Nori in the clip.
Best wishes
We are lucky to have so many (asian) farmer's market around us that this is so readily available for us. I see on other forums or on subreddits where people have to order it on Amazon or pay ridiculous prices at their LFS for simple seaweed.
I was surprised to be able to purchase pure seaweed, without flavoring or oils so predominant with sushi seaweed.....thanks for the encouragement.
A view down the long axis of the peninsula….Sohal is the boss….the pyramid butterflies snack on the zoanthids…
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Thank you so kindly
How do you like the Pyramids? Any nipping at coral?
Edit: haha see above they do nip at zoas. Any others?
Edit: haha see above they do nip at zoas. Any others?
I purchased three smaller Pyramid Butterflies - lovely coloration and swim habits! They school together all over the aquarium, and often are poised above the reef. They were quarantined and eating frozen food at my purchase. Healthy eaters of mixed pellets and mixed frozen....even taking Nori on occasion. They have grown, and are no longer skinny. No aggression from the many purple and yellow tangs, nor the grand sohal. They were quite timid for the 1st few weeks with diet, and one individual did not eat for a couple weeks....now all are healthy and eating prepared food.
Last month, during vacation for a week, my fish were fed with two auto feeders, but no frozen food or nori. Someone, singular or plural, ate many healthy heads of one of my 30 head ducal colonies (all started three Duncan colonies started small, grew dramatically over the past 16 months). The occasional grazing on the specific Duncan colony <several heads a day, some days no damage> continued over three more weeks after I returned home, but I never witnessed any fish giving the Duncans attention. I removed the remnant of the "consumed" colony last week, and replaced with a new frag of my Raja Rampage chalice. Two serving Duncan colonies at the present.
"Buyer beware."
I wrestled between the Pyramids and dwarf angels, lol. No fish bothers the SPS.
Finally, I have seen one Pyramid picking repeatedly on the only yellow colony of zoanthids - which is hilarious, the zoas grow like weeds, would love a fish that snacked on Zoas. The bothered zoas close up in tiny balls....new growth seems to match or exceed the butterfly diet?
Last month, during vacation for a week, my fish were fed with two auto feeders, but no frozen food or nori. Someone, singular or plural, ate many healthy heads of one of my 30 head ducal colonies (all started three Duncan colonies started small, grew dramatically over the past 16 months). The occasional grazing on the specific Duncan colony <several heads a day, some days no damage> continued over three more weeks after I returned home, but I never witnessed any fish giving the Duncans attention. I removed the remnant of the "consumed" colony last week, and replaced with a new frag of my Raja Rampage chalice. Two serving Duncan colonies at the present.
"Buyer beware."
I wrestled between the Pyramids and dwarf angels, lol. No fish bothers the SPS.
Finally, I have seen one Pyramid picking repeatedly on the only yellow colony of zoanthids - which is hilarious, the zoas grow like weeds, would love a fish that snacked on Zoas. The bothered zoas close up in tiny balls....new growth seems to match or exceed the butterfly diet?
Sir your tank is beautiful!!
Thanks!
iPhone photo, without the orange filter. Yes, there are 12 tangs, ouch. The five yellow, and four purple, were purchased as tiny agricultured babies. Still shocked I was able to get a small Sohal out of the war zone of the Red Sea last year. The glass box is about 450 gallons.
Can’t say that I recommend a Sohal, but we are getting along.
Can’t say that I recommend a Sohal, but we are getting along.
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