I think we're planning a black ribbon eel.anf when you say treat the same, will the lion need to go in the acclimation box for a while? Or you mean with the feeding regularly then every other day?
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Thanks for the info and the read about your ribbon, that is most definitely not what Google says ANYWHERE 55g and 4ft is all they need ugh glad I asked. So when it comes to eels, is a snowflake the only one suitable for a 72g?A black ribbon eel will need at least a 6' tank, they are very active and will get to about 3'; as well as being one of the most challenging to feed.
The chronicles of a Rhinomuraena quaesita
Aka the black ribbon eel in the juvenile form, the blue ribbon eel in the male form, and the green ribbon eel in the female form. This is another notoriously difficult fish to keep, I've had some success with one and would like to share my observations. I've witnessed a couple friends and other...
The feeding schedule for the dwarf lion will be the same, and they are usually more difficult to take any dead food. I recommend an observation tank because of their tendency to come in with internal parasites. You could put him in with the scorp as they will be eating the same foods, but keep a very watchful eye for internal parasites. If not eating live food almost immediately, I've actually had them eating in the bag floating, there's a good chance they have internal parasites and treatment would be necessary. Not being in an observation tank alone, it would make it more complicated, not impossible, just complicated.
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I have read a lot of your threads! Why do you think I keep asking you all the questions?! Haha you're doing exactly what we want to do!! As for the raising mollies and whatnot, we're good there. I come from about 30yrs fresh experience, we had 14 tanks set up at 1 point, only 5 now (3 salt and 2 fresh for feeders) lol I am absolutely captivated by these strange fishes! I just can't seem to get enough information about them!It is not necessary to convert ghosties or mollies to saltwater, or any acclimation, you will be feeding on demand, so they are pretty much gone as soon as they hit the water. Just for some fun info, ghosties are an estuarine species and lives in fresh, brackish, and salt water. There are ghosties in my tessa grow out tank that have been there for over a month, straight from fresh to salt. Mollies do best in a brackish tank, 1.010-1.013. Feed on demand, they could just as easily live indefinitely with no acclimation.
You really should read through some of my threads.
Sexing lionfish
If you've had alot of experience observing lionfish, especially in groups, you may take a well educated guess, but it will still be a guess. With the exception of the fuzzy, the males will have 6 or more bands on their pectoral fins, a female will have 4-6 bands, so ones with 6 bands can be a...
Here's my current pride with a rhinopias frondosa. Scorps you can look into is the rhinopias, yellow spotted, leaf scorp. Be aware it takes effort and tricks to feed multiple predators eating live food, and as they grow, it can get expensive, and there is no guarantee you will get them all taking the proper dead foods. Breeding mollies only works when they are small, unless you are good and able to grow out volume, you also need to separate babies or they will be eaten, and growing them up takes time and expense. At the size of my preds I found it more cost effective to buy grown mollies, I spend $180 month to feed the tank in this photo, 600 ghosties and 50 mollies. Wilson will end up eating about 20-30 ghosties and 2-4 mollies a week, roughly; a dwarf lion will eat more.
Thank you for all the information!! That rhino is very interesting! Might have to watch out for one of those as well! And I see a flame hawk too which is on our wish list too! Just picked up another bunch of mollies, all sizes.. but can't seem to find any ghosties which is kinda worrisome. So 2 tanks of mollies will have to do for now. I will definitely be doing some more research, it's all I do actually haha read and more reading. Still had a little ammonia (.5) last night about 30min after adding the canister filter.. gonna test here in a bit and see what it looks like. Just can't hardly wait to release him!I couldn't manage the whole breeding thing. The other thing that gets dicey when feeding live, is changes in supply. The hurricane just devastated my supply line. Some of my beast will take "some" dead food, some won't take any at all. My zebra still freaks about eating fish, will not take any dead, only eats ghosties. My ghostie supply will not have any next week, so I had to buy a huge supply on transport day, lost half of them. Yeah they don't travel well, always give it a day before buying them. My molly supply came from elsewhere and I lost 11 out of 50. So this was a bad week and next week will be challenging.
Most scorps like to work the sandbed so be aware of that when stocking. While the leaf fish(taenianotus triacanthus)
mostly works the sandbed, I had one that liked heights, they can live in groups. They are a Hawaiian fish so I'm not sure how available they are right now. The yellow spotted scorp can also live in groups, and mostly likes to perch up on rocks. Just plan out everyone's home, making room for each type in their desired territory; caves, perches, rock crevices, sandbed, etc. There's also the cockatoo waspfish, works the sandbed and a slow striker. Wilson is going to be a fast, gluttonous predator, and so are the fuzzies; those 2 are royal pita's in a group tank. There are different tricks and methods to get everyone food, you can ask me about that when you get there. Check out the last pic, that rascal would climb all over the rhino and steal his food, once I thought he was going to die when he ate a molly almost close to his own size. The tail was actually sticking out of his mouth and it took him a while to suck it all down.
I'm just highlighting ones that I have seen around, you may stumble across ones that are not usual, I don't say common because scorp lovers are far and few between, you really don't see them regularly. When you do see one you don't recognize, do your own research because lfs are known to misidentify. Sizes listed will be max size and they usually reach about 2/3rds of that listed sized, max. With exception, I have kept dwarf lions get to their max size, be mindful that was after several years. Understand sizes when grown out so you don't have anyone potentially eating another. All the ones I've highlighted will be compatible in size, just make sure to initially properly size.
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if we ever find some ghosties I'm sure we'll get them a tank set up somewhere as well!From what I've read ghost shrimp are pretty easy to breed, lots of plants and food 80⁰ hard water. Perhaps you're thinking of Amano? They need their fresh hatched eggs to roll in to saltwater then the larvae swim back up through brackish water.. hard to duplicate in an aquarium. Unless I'm missing something about ghost shrimp. My problem right now is locating them, but I will I'm sure I take breeding things.. all things it seems, as a challenge anyway haha (breeding conure parrots as of late).
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Well I read through those and that certainly isn't what I found online haha and that is why I am loving this group! And this hobby! So much to learn!Ghost shrimp aren't as bad as many other species to breed, and the links below would probably be helpful for breeding them if you wanted to (the first link is ghost shrimp specific - they prefer brackish water, but you can rear them in full salt too - the second link is a generic guide, though it specifically uses Palaemon elegans for the example as the breeder prefers them to some of the alternatives they've used before):
Culturing Marine Grass/Ghost Shrimp
Hey everyone! TLDR summary at bottom. I've seen a few people on here ask about how to culture marine ghost/grass shrimp species in their tanks, and the responses I've seen have ranged from it's not possible, to use Google Scholar, to you just add them and they breed. Knowing that Ghost/Grass...Breeding Palaemon Elegans (Mediterrane Rock Pool Shrimp) Guide
Hi, Im going to post a breeding guide of palaemon elegans shrimps here. Two females are preparing for spawning so if you are interested you may want to stick with me. This breeding guide will be interchangable for every kind of shrimps but i stick elegans because: - With cleaner shrimp we are...
Yeah, P. pugio and P. vulgaris are both brackish specimens (these were the ones I’ve found that are commonly reared in full marine salinities) - I actually just looked into P. paludosus because you mentioned the species. Turns out they are a pure freshwater species, and - surprisingly - their larvae don’t need fed at all (they undergo metamorphosis/settlement without needing food), so they’d likely be incredibly easy to rear (and likely a great choice for beginners looking to try raising shrimp):
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Yeah, P. pugio and P. vulgaris are both brackish specimens (these were the ones I’ve found that are commonly reared in full marine salinities) - I actually just looked into P. paludosus because you mentioned the species. Turns out they are a pure freshwater species, and - surprisingly - their larvae don’t need fed at all (they undergo metamorphosis/settlement without needing food), so they’d likely be incredibly easy to rear (and likely a great choice for beginners looking to try raising shrimp):
Thank you for sharing the species name, they were very cool to learn about!The Larval Development of Palaemonetes paludosus (Gibbes, 1850) (Decapoda, Palaemonidae), Reared in the Laboratory on JSTOR
Sheldon Dobkin, The Larval Development of Palaemonetes paludosus (Gibbes, 1850) (Decapoda, Palaemonidae), Reared in the Laboratory, Crustaceana, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Aug., 1963), pp. 41-61
