jinx Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Just picked up the Naso! It's roughly 3" and they claim he was in QT before I got him, so I'm going to attempt to get him in the tank asap.. It came all the way from a facility in Cali, which means a stressful flight here. Looks very healthy, but we all know Tangs are stressed out just living life. Updates later. Link to comment
markalot Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Good luck with the tang, sorry about the redbugs. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Good luck with the tang, sorry about the redbugs. Yeah I'll need it. I added a six line a little while after finding the bugs to help thin out some of the spaghetti worms. They are taking over the tank along with the dictyota... The wrasse should help keep the sps's happier too. He mostly hangs out around my frag racks, which is good. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 The tang is in and went right to eating the Dictyota!! Shhweeeeeeeeeeet I'll grab a pic of him when he gets less shy. Just to show how fast Dictyota can get out of hand, I cleaned this powerhead a week ago >_> any tiny piece left behind, regrows into masses very quickly. The Naso has much work ahead of him! The six line patrolling some corals. Again, Dictyota showing in many spots. Link to comment
markalot Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Good news on the tang. Mine gobble it up as well and I have a nice red variety of it that's I'd like to grow a little, but no luck. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Good news on the tang. Mine gobble it up as well and I have a nice red variety of it that's I'd like to grow a little, but no luck. Very good news that it's eating already. My other tangs took forever to eat anything, no matter what it was. Didn't help them survive at all.. Atlantic blue tangs are known to be hard to keep alive. I have some red stuff too that looks like long leaf dictyota, but since bumping up to 6 lights on, it quit growing and went brown. It doesn't like much light apparently. I also have some red grape macro in my sump that hates any light.. I put it in the dark and it went from rusty brown to a very deep maroon. I've had it for awhile, but it never grew much. It's like 10" tall now Link to comment
jinx Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Managed to snap a quick one of him when I was getting ready to feed the rest of the crew. I really need to invest in a better camera soon, this Canon PowerShot just sucks. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 Apparently the Naso likes eating spaghetti worms too Tired of them irritating my zoa's!!! Wooohoo, go tang! Link to comment
markalot Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Apparently the Naso likes eating spaghetti worms too Tired of them irritating my zoa's!!! Wooohoo, go tang! Cool, my two Yellows and Kole never touch anything but algae. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 It's even sifting the sand! Hungry Lil bugger lol. I really hope it doesn't get ich. The six line has taken a liking to the tang. They we're hanging out and swimming around together the morning. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 Moved a tiny piece of rubble off of the SB and it started a cyano bloom Anyways, took a pic.. Need to do some cleaning tonight. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Hahahaha LMAO... Just caught my cleaner shrimp riding the tang like a horse from end to end of the tank. XD the tang didn't even care LOL Link to comment
jinx Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Spent 10mins this morning catching my stupid peps which I found eating zoa's together....... Easy work with a quick bottle trap Banned to the sump! Link to comment
slowngreen Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Gotta try to get a video of your cleaner riding the tang, that would be awesome! Link to comment
jinx Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 Gotta try to get a video of your cleaner riding the tang, that would be awesome! Epic for sure! I'm sure it'll happen again, just the tang runs when the camera comes near the tank currently. Funny because it never really attempts to clean anyone else in the tank then suddenly goes for the only fish big enough to eat it. LOL. I hope they bond and keeps the tang mostly clean of ich. The peps were more willing to clean then the cleaner.. The peps are wayyyy to aggressive when it comes to cleaning though. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I hope they bond and keeps the tang mostly clean of ich. http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/fish-diseases-treatments/23132-marine-ich-myths-facts.html It's not possible, the parasite lives under the slime coat of the fish. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/fish-diseases-treatments/23132-marine-ich-myths-facts.html It's not possible, the parasite lives under the slime coat of the fish. I wasn't implying that it would be the sole cure for it. Tangs enjoy being cleaned.. they can get very stressed out trying to get a shrimp to clean them. I've seen first hand what happens to a tang when it wants cleaned, then is completely rejected over and over again. My original atlantic blue became so obsessed with getting the peppermints to clean him, that he wouldn't even take out time to eat anymore. The stress was very high, eventually he got very weak and got ich like crazy. He was the only fish to get it at that time. I had no visible signs of ich, up until that point. Both of my original tangs were QT'd and treated with copper before I even had them. That means it was likely already in the system before that. Unhappy + stress + weakness = easy target for ich.. Anything to keep the tang happy, will increase it's chances of survival. Only time will tell. Link to comment
markalot Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Neon goby cleans my tangs more often than the shrimp. Really fun to watch. Link to comment
jinx Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 The naso has eaten the dictyota down to basically nothing. I have a few small patches remaining He's an absolute pig.. won't touch nori though, but does eat flakes, and tiny bits of frozen goods. Link to comment
jinx Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 The only dictyota visibly left is in my sump.. Looks like I'm going to have to grow it for him, because he isn't eating anything else really. I tried garlic soaked nori, nada. hmmn.... Link to comment
jinx Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 Super stoked I caught the tang eating nori today! Link to comment
jinx Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 The latest addition to my sps collection. ORA green elkhorn monti. Got it for $37 and it's a little bit bigger than a tennis ball. It has a few dead spots, so I'm going to clean it up, and then remount it after letting it adjust for a bit. Link to comment
jinx Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Pulled the 2 jvp's for RW-15's. Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better. Needs more tweaking though. Link to comment
jinx Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Quick vid of the two RW-15's in sync. I need to play with the settings and placement some more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_g1CwfyW2o Link to comment
markalot Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Carefully inspect that elkhorn. Mine was ravaged by Monti Eating nudis. When it was growing it was fast, I mean fast. Cool looking coral. Can you keep your RW15's in sync? Mine continually go in and out of sync, which is fine by me, but I thought it was a selling point. Link to comment
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