You know I am your biggest fan! That fish room gives me a happy. I am a freak I guess!LOL, sound like I need to do a new fishroom video …. along with mindless voice over.
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You know I am your biggest fan! That fish room gives me a happy. I am a freak I guess!LOL, sound like I need to do a new fishroom video …. along with mindless voice over.
I guess I will need to add a green slimmer...darn .I have a very large green slimmer colony and the damsels live in and amongst the branches. There’s a picture of that somewhere in this thread. I don’t have any aggression issues other than a bit of bickering amongst the yellow tails. Always found them to be a pretty meek fish actually. I do think though, given the right conditions, any fish can be a bully.
The other smaller fish that I like a lot is the chalk basslet. Don’t have any in my tank at the moment but I may add a few once my QT tanks becomes available again.
@Victoria M I am also a fan of the damsels. I just recently ordered 11 Talbots. They will be going into QT today.I am getting this weird thing for damsels. I just fell in love with the talbots damsel. A school would be lovely in my tank with its blue back ground.
Would you out a group of them in the tank?
I want to get one but I think he will get ich even if I QT. I guess its roll the diceHippo tang is an interesting story. I took a sabbatical from the hobby 2009-2012, When I got back in early 2013, I did so by buying a running 90 gallon tank from a local reefer (mostly for the livestock). A pair of hippo tangs were part of that livestock. Since none of the fish were showing any disease symptoms, I chose not to QT them. Later in 2013, I moved up to a 265. In the transition, I rehomed one of the hippos; the other briefly showed ich spots. Clearly ich was in the system, and remains so today; however, the hippo has never again shown spots. I know the system still has ich because when I tried to introduce an achilles tang last year he cam down with major ich. Means I cannot keep one, but otherwise the fish are asymptomatic.
Not the best video, but good enough ....
lol, I would say better then good enough. Fantastic and well done (the video and the reef)!
Thank you very much for the info. I’ll definitely go check out these damsels.Looks good @ca1ore . For what it is worth I have my Trident dosing Alk and Ca (ESV - 2 Part). Doing very well. I'm testing 4/2/2 but may bump that up based on some of my observations the last two months. At the end of the day the way it is designed it isn't going to nuke your tank. They have some pretty good safety features the way it is implemented.
To those all asking about the damsels as Ca1ore said you want them out of the Ghrysiptera genus. So something along the lines of Talbots, Tracy's, Azures, Starcki (more expensive). Fusilier's are also a great choice and Rollands is another. There is a deep water Gold I think, or yellow, that is also rare, epensive as is the Starcki, but another great find. Stick with these to start your search and you can't go wrong. That is unless you don't have enough tank and coral maturity.
Ca1ore has a large slimer as he mentioned that they call home. If you have ever gone SCUBA diving damsels are living all around corals with places to retreat should their buddy become hot headed. So lots of coral to break up the chase. Rocks with nooks and crannies. I have a 210 gallon now almost 2 years into its upgrade. By December of 2020 I plan on adding a slew of damsels with Talbots, Fusilier's, Starcki, Yellow/Gold deep water, and that should do it. All in all probably about 25 or so. Then throw down a trio of Millseed Butterflies and a few royal gramma's and I'll call it a day. I'll have more smaller fish, 4 medium, and 3 larger with the Lavender and Scopas tanks and rabbit fish...
Again, great update Calore - hope all is well.
Just spent the past hour and a half reading through your entire thread and all I can say is WOW. Extremely intriguing thread as your tank has evolved so beautifully. I love how invested you are and how you always are down for new projects/improvements. Good luck with everything and keep us posted on how your water parameters hold up in the next few weeks.