Well in that case I may have to add a new fish to my wishlist! Does it bury your sandbed corals?Well my sand bed is not deep. The jawfish has lots of shells and moves the sand to create his own deep spots!
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Well in that case I may have to add a new fish to my wishlist! Does it bury your sandbed corals?Well my sand bed is not deep. The jawfish has lots of shells and moves the sand to create his own deep spots!
Wrasses are definitely my favorite broad category of fish. There is so mucy vareity in look, temperament, and personality!My possum wrasse. It started off super shy, but now roams all around the tank even with 2 clowns.
In the lfs they were kept with royal grammas, and while the other possums were mostly hiding in pvc, this guy was super intrigued and fascinated with 1 particular gramma. It would follow this gramma around sticking really close, nose pointed right at the gramma, studying it, much to the grammas annoyance.
He swims gracefully and with ease, and fighting the current of the power heads with ease, cruising around the rock work lookimg for pods.
He is super cute when pointed right at you and looking at you with his big googly eyes.
Choosing between an orchid dottyback and a royal gramma is a real struggle. I will probably go with the gramma for the sake of my peppermint shrimp lolMine is an orchid dottyback, beautiful colour and great personality only been in the display for 3 days, getting bullied by the tang hopefully that'll calm down at least he doesn't hide, the tang was on his own for 5 months so established the whole tank as his territory.
Choosing between an orchid dottyback and a royal gramma is a real struggle. I will probably go with the gramma for the sake of my peppermint shrimp lol
Wrasses are definitely my favorite broad category of fish. There is so mucy vareity in look, temperament, and personality!
Those fish are unbelievably beautiful. I haven't heard much about the long term health of a parrotfish in a reef setting. Do the Quoy's thrive? Also selfish question how do you feel about a blue throat trigger in a medium stocked mixed reef 120g? I see you all over the place on the forum, and you SEEM to know what you're talking about
Kind of the response I expected! Thanks! Basically I think I'm going to stock the tank with everything else I want, see where my bioload and available space is, and then maybe take the risk on a blue throat or sargassum I particularly like that Sargassums can be found all the way to the coast of where I live!Some of it's experience, some is research, some is informed hypothesis (aka: educated guess).
Quoy's are probably the best parrotfish for a reef - but that doesn't make 'em a sure thing. I've had one go for several months (lost to what I believe to have been brook, during a "fallow" exercise), while another never fed in my care. I've had the one I've got now for a few months, and he appears healthy. I've heard of them living to a few years - but I've heard of them appearing healthy for six months or so, and turning up dead on the sand one day. At this moment, I would have to consider them a somewhat risky proposition.
A blue-throat in a 120 might work. I tried one in a smaller tank (65 gallon, while the 220 gallon upgrade was sitting empty on the other side of the room), and the fish darkened to female colors - while all of my shrimp disappeared. It is a fish that gets to decent size and likes to eat and move, so the longer your 120 is, the better, I suspect.
~Bruce