Gem and Black tangs eating with friends

Captain Billy · Sep 29, 2014

Hey everyone, just wanted to poke into the fish forum and share a couple videos of my fish! Thanks for watching!

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[video=youtube;9gQiYgPC8Vw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gQiYgPC8Vw&feature=youtu.be[/video]

skinz78 · Sep 30, 2014

Very nice!

RoDogVillan · Sep 30, 2014

How many years?

zach_discus · Sep 30, 2014

Nice tangs, your PR of angels really made my heart go pitter-patter more so :)

TruRacr314x · Sep 30, 2014

Such an amazing tank! Thanks so much for sharing the videos...

Captain Billy · Sep 30, 2014

The tank is about a year and a half old, but could be much better if I wasn't battling dinoflagellates for the past year. Finally getting the upper hand on them.

Thanks Zach! The Watanabei's are amongst my favorite fish. The males can be so hard to get established but mine eats flakes, algae, just about anything!

FLipp · Sep 30, 2014

gotta love those two! where did you get the gem?

-Logzor · Sep 30, 2014

Wow those look like some healthy fish! Love the diversity. Black Tang is definitely my dream-fish!

In the first video what is the acro in the back center?

Is that just nori you're feeding them?

Captain Billy · Sep 30, 2014

I got the Gem from Victor at World Wide Corals about a year and a half ago. Very few places would I trust to get me a healthy fish of this value.

This was the day I got him still in the bucket, I wish there was some perspective so I could show how much he has grown. Overall he has been a pretty easy fish to keep. At the end of the day, it's still a zebrasoma tang.

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I feed them algae sheets from Two Little Fishies and Ocean Nutrition. Purple, green, red, and brown make up the rotating menu. I also feed numerous different flake foods and occasionally PE mysis.

As for the acropora, it was given to me as a highlighter acro many years ago, but I'm unsure of the species. It has thick, smooth branches with fairly large polyps. It's neon green and a very easy acro to grow, although it grows slowly. I have an equally large colony in my frag tank that I'm going to make some frags from soon.