What are these??I don't feel as strong a desire to buy more fish knowing these guys are waiting for me to get home every day. That's how I know they are my holy grail fish.
If you're lucky you can train marine bettas to be out during the day. I did it very successfully with mine, he's out constantly and follows me back and forth when I'm near the tank. Took a lot of patience and a dim, quiet QT for him to become comfortable with me. When he started eating from my fingers (and he still does) I knew it was going well.
Biota is selling CB hippos now so you're in luck
What kind of catsharks? Izu?I wanted something to share a tank with my catsharks for a while but could not find anything interesting that could live at 55 degrees until I came across this pair. The female can be seen in the lower image above the shark and below the starfish. Fifty-five is a little cold for them, but they acclimated well. Probably the only pairing of ornates and chain cats world-wide, but it works.
At the shop I work at I've gotten tanakai by accident when we order just "possum wrasse," I've had one personally. Never stopped hiding and never ate. Really cool fish.
If you're lucky you can train marine bettas to be out during the day. I did it very successfully with mine, he's out constantly and follows me back and forth when I'm near the tank. Took a lot of patience and a dim, quiet QT for him to become comfortable with me. When he started eating from my fingers (and he still does) I knew it was going well.
Tried doing the same with a marine betta to be put in a display at work. I got him to eat from my fingers sparingly in my QT, but he was much larger to begin with so he still hides a decent amount. I can tell he's curious though and I see him multiple times a day at work.
Same here. Finally got one that eats well after FOUR previous attempts with the CB ones. No one had any solutions for me that I hadn't tried already.This has always been my holy grail. I got it at MACNA finally. It is in my fuge eating like a champ. Too small to play with the big boys. Will set up a grow out macroalgae tank for it in a few weeks.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/captive-bred-regal-and-multibar-angel.911412/Yeah, I've been updating infrequently in the thread I started. Failed with a CB regal too. They just didn't eat like you'd expect CB fish to. Most of them even turned up their nose at live baby brine, which is insane.
I lost the ones I got from Biota too, granted I wasn't using their EXACT pellet food, I was using pellet foods of small enough size. It just seems very odd to me that these fish are not taking anything live/frozen even on instinct. Makes me wonder what Bali Aquarich feeds to get them to this size in the first place.
I mean I usually asked for larger, but that doesn't mean they'll do it. Guess you got lucky.
That's interesting, I have fairly good luck with shipped fish. Plenty of not-so-easy to keep stuff too. Delicate wrasses and such.
They’re the Australian Flathead Perch
