HVani Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 I haven't seen the pinkbar goby is 2 weeks now. He disappeared the same time the pistol shrimp did. I have heard the pistol so I was hoping the goby was with him and alive. Sure enough when I came home I spotted the goby briefly poking his nose out of a new burrow. It was awesome Also I found a picture from the vender I got my purple tube anemone from. It's better than mine. Gives you a better idea of how pretty the purple one is. My lfs has one that grey/white with a bright green mouth. It was tempting Link to comment
mpsti05 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 I haven't seen the pinkbar goby is 2 weeks now. He disappeared the same time the pistol shrimp did. I have heard the pistol so I was hoping the goby was with him and alive. Sure enough when I came home I spotted the goby briefly poking his nose out of a new burrow. It was awesome Score! Link to comment
gena Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Sooo pretty! Are those green spots? Link to comment
HVani Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 Yes they are that's why I got it. It is so beautful Link to comment
gena Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Yes they are that's why I got it. It is so beautfulI didn't know they were so beautiful. I like the purple/green better than the pink! Link to comment
HVani Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 I picked up a few goodies tonight. Green toadstool leather Red digitata purple plate Armor of the Gods Blue zoas I can't find any duncans locally Link to comment
HVani Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Used up some credit I had at the LFS, picked up 3 new fish. I got a warpaint clown goby, a hectors goby and a McCoskers wrasse. It sucks buying new saltwater fish lol. I haven't seen them since I added them to the tank. I also don't expect to see them for another week. Here are some pretty pictures of these fish I found on the Internet! Link to comment
gena Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Very nice! I really like the war paint clown goby! Link to comment
llama roadkill Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 How hard is the tube to take care of? Just spot feeding daily? Link to comment
HVani Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Oh they are so easy. Keep the water clean and I mostly just feed normally. They catch what they need out of the water. Mine seem to like smaller pieces of food like small pellets, cyclopeeze, ova and such. I tried feeding them pieces of silversides but they just spit them out. Link to comment
llama roadkill Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Oh they are so easy. Keep the water clean and I mostly just feed normally. They catch what they need out of the water. Mine seem to like smaller pieces of food like small pellets, cyclopeeze, ova and such. I tried feeding them pieces of silversides but they just spit them out. AWESOME! I want one REALLY bad in the new tank. How many inches deep is your sandbed? Will ~2" work? Link to comment
asred9 Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Hi if I may ask but what is the diameter of the eel? thx Link to comment
HVani Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 AWESOME! I want one REALLY bad in the new tank. How many inches deep is your sandbed? Will ~2" work? Lets see, my sandbed varies in different places. Where the anemones are I think it's around 2.5" deep. I also have them in some PVC pipe to provide extra sand for them. They seem to like it and actually stretch pretty far out of the PVC. Hi if I may ask but what is the diameter of the eel? thx She was about the diameter of a sharpie marker and 12" long as an adult. A nice small eel. I miss her sometimes(sold her locally) but it's nice to be able to have small fish, hermit crabs and various shrimp again. Link to comment
llama roadkill Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Lets see, my sandbed varies in different places. Where the anemones are I think it's around 2.5" deep. I also have them in some PVC pipe to provide extra sand for them. They seem to like it and actually stretch pretty far out of the PVC. Oh yeah, I read about how people put them in PVC for support. I might do that. And you had an eel? Didn't know. What kind? Link to comment
HVani Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 I did for about a year. She was a gold dwarf moray Link to comment
llama roadkill Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 I did for about a year. She was a gold dwarf moray Nice! No eating of little fish or inverts? Link to comment
HVani Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Nice! No eating of little fish or inverts? Ha! She was fine for a while then she started chowing down on things. She ate the following: 3 clown gobies 2 pistol shrimp 5 peppermint shrimp several small hermit crabs 1 royal gramma and she took a bite out of my firefish but he survived I think she ate a few more fish I can't remember now Link to comment
llama roadkill Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Ha! She was fine for a while then she started chowing down on things. She ate the following: 3 clown gobies 2 pistol shrimp 5 peppermint shrimp several small hermit crabs 1 royal gramma and she took a bite out of my firefish but he survived I think she ate a few more fish I can't remember now Wow. That's...unusual...but it is an eel! Link to comment
HVani Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Saw my McCoskers wrasse for a few minutes after lunch! Link to comment
HVani Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 The McoCosker's wrasse is now out ALL the time I've only seen the hector's goby and clown goby a couple times but my tank has a lot of hiding places. Well I as looking for a purple fish for my tank. I was going to get an orchid dottyback but no one had captive bed ones. So then I thought blacked capped basslet but again no one had any and I couldn't find any online. Yesterday I was planning on just going out and getting a royal gramma. Then my LFS (whom I follow on Facebook) made a post about their current stock. They had a black capped basslet that came in earlier this week I went yesterday to check him out and he looked great! Out and about, nice color, perfect fins, a little skinny but alert. So I bought him(geeze these guys are expensive). I also did my first impulse buy lol. I bought 3 black bar chromis. They are beautiful! I'm hoping to at least end up with a pair. SO far the new(er) fish are doing great though I have not seen them very much. I do believe my stocking is complete and I am very happy with it Link to comment
opaquelace Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Have you gotten tank of the month yet? Because you should..you really really should. Link to comment
HVani Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 Well thank you I don't think I am quite there yet. Plus I don't have a nano lol. I hope for thing to grow in a bit more then the tank will really look like what I have in mind. In other news I saw 2 chromis and the black capped yesterday during feeding time. The black capped has moved into a rock right next to the clown's anemone and Claudia(female clown) is NOT happy about it. Unfortunate for her the rock has many small holes the black capped can get into but she can't even get her face into. I love the soap opera that goes on in my tank Link to comment
gena Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Have you posted a FTS lately? I'd love to see one!!!! Link to comment
HVani Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 It's on the "To Do" list today. I just need to finish cleaning the snake cages Link to comment
HVani Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 New photos! Full Tank Group Shots FIsh Nems Everything else Link to comment
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