"Inside a Predator's Reef" - Cover and Feature in Reef Hobbyist Magazine

[Reef News]

Future snacks, that's all they are.... future snacks.

LOLOL!

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I don't really think the clowns will be eaten, BTW. It's just a diss to the "importance" of the clowns.

 

[FeliciaLynn]

I don't really think the clowns will be eaten, BTW. It's just a diss to the "importance" of the clowns.

Hana yeah, I tend to overlook the clowns too. They don't have names like the lionfish and eel. They're very cool in their BTA castle, but they just get outshone by the predators. They could always get eaten one day, especially as the lionfish grow. It's always a risk. I worry when I go out of town for a long weekend and don't feed the lions for 4-5 days if they'll decide to snack on a clownfish. Luckily it hasn't happened yet and I credit that to the anemones.

 

[LadAShark]

Hana yeah, I tend to overlook the clowns too. They don't have names like the lionfish and eel. They're very cool in their BTA castle, but they just get outshone by the predators. They could always get eaten one day, especially as the lionfish grow. It's always a risk. I worry when I go out of town for a long weekend and don't feed the lions for 4-5 days if they'll decide to snack on a clownfish. Luckily it hasn't happened yet and I credit that to the anemones.

Honestly that's probably the reason they haven't been eaten. Actually I'm sort of shocked that they haven't been gulped up.

 

[DRoth335]

Very cool. Congrats!

 

[FeliciaLynn]

Honestly that's probably the reason they haven't been eaten. Actually I'm sort of shocked that they haven't been gulped up.

Well its been over a year now and they haven't been a snack yet, so hopefully it won't happen

Very cool. Congrats!

Thank you!

 

[LadAShark]

Well its been over a year now and they haven't been a snack yet, so hopefully it won't happen


Thank you!

Yeah I hope too!

I'm in the process of building a predator reef pool (600 gallons) that will eventually be upgraded to a 1000+ gallon aquarium, so your success will be indicative of my success. I intend to have some small sharks as well as some other assorted predator oddballs in a coral reef. Whether I will be able to make coral succeed is the question for now.

But recently I have gotten a little off track, after I realized that my favorite "fresh water fish," the Gar, is actually brackish and can live without complications in 34 sp water, which means it should do fine in a standard marine tank. So now I'm stuck between gars and sharks, or sharks and reef. And I'm also worried cause it's entirely possible neither will work.

 

[Jenz]

Felicia I hope you don't mind the enquiry; am looking at putting together a similarly stocked Predator tank.
When you were organising stocking plan and order, did you introduce the Clowns before or after the Predators; also were the introduced after ensuring that there was a happy anemone for them?
I guess I am looking at stocking order, and also how to provide a source of protection in a developing tank ie should one wait till tank >6mths to try establish an anemone before clown intro, or did they use other corals as a territory before an anemone was introduced?
Sorry

 

[x_burt]

Anyone got a link to the pod cast? Awesome tank!

 

[David Engh]

Nice job cograts

 

[FeliciaLynn]

So sorry for the crazy delay in responding! I've been super busy with my new job and got really behind on forum posting.

Yeah I hope too!

I'm in the process of building a predator reef pool (600 gallons) that will eventually be upgraded to a 1000+ gallon aquarium, so your success will be indicative of my success. I intend to have some small sharks as well as some other assorted predator oddballs in a coral reef. Whether I will be able to make coral succeed is the question for now.

But recently I have gotten a little off track, after I realized that my favorite "fresh water fish," the Gar, is actually brackish and can live without complications in 34 sp water, which means it should do fine in a standard marine tank. So now I'm stuck between gars and sharks, or sharks and reef. And I'm also worried cause it's entirely possible neither will work.

That is quite the build! Excited to see it get started!

Felicia I hope you don't mind the enquiry; am looking at putting together a similarly stocked Predator tank.
When you were organising stocking plan and order, did you introduce the Clowns before or after the Predators; also were the introduced after ensuring that there was a happy anemone for them?
I guess I am looking at stocking order, and also how to provide a source of protection in a developing tank ie should one wait till tank >6mths to try establish an anemone before clown intro, or did they use other corals as a territory before an anemone was introduced?
Sorry

I never mind questions! I ask plenty myself In terms of stocking, the BTA's had been well established for several months (and there were originally 4 large ones) before I added the clowns. Then the clowns were in the tank and hosting the BTA's for several months before the predators were added. I really attribute the fact that they haven't been eaten to the fact that they have a huge cluster of anemones to live in and the predators won't go into the anemones. I really think this only works if the clowns are established in the BTAs before the predators are added and there have to be multiple large BTAs together that the clowns can live in.

 

[FeliciaLynn]

Anyone got a link to the pod cast? Awesome tank!

Thank you! The podcast is here and I actually did another podcast with Reef Threads while I was at MACNA. That one was a video podcast and I come in at about 28:40.

Nice job cograts

Thank you!

 

[FeliciaLynn]

Whoops, double post!