8) I thaught it would be interesting to find out what all you reef keepers out there,thaught was the most beautifull and interesting 3 creatures,you have ever had in youre tanks. Mine were a Yellow Hairy Hermit Crab,a Blue Ring Octopus and a red spoted Halequin shrimp
The most interesting creatures kept in a reef tank
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Well, I just found one of these in the back corner of my overflow.
I think that is pretty cool.
The strangest fish I ever had was the fingered dragonet Dactylopus dactylopus
This plating hydnophora I used to have was probably the most interesting coral (to me anyway) that I ever kept, even though it is not rare or anything. Here is is sending out tentacles to kill my other corals.
I think that is pretty cool.
The strangest fish I ever had was the fingered dragonet Dactylopus dactylopus
This plating hydnophora I used to have was probably the most interesting coral (to me anyway) that I ever kept, even though it is not rare or anything. Here is is sending out tentacles to kill my other corals.
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Yes he was hard to keep. I like to make posts about him because when we got him I could not find anything on the reef boards about him, so hopefully my experience will help someone else out.
I just came home from school one day and looky here, Marcus had bought him and put him in the tank and I could find NOTHING about it's care. So I got the dragonete through spousal impulse you could say.
He is like a very large mandarin dragonete. Gradually we got him to eat a few different prepared foods (but started with live brine) but the problem was I had two tangs, and even though I target fed him with a turkey baster, he had a real tough time getting enough food with the greedy fish around. But he did learn what the turkey baster was and would approach it for food.
I don't know if you can tell from the photo but that is a big fish, like 7 inches long.
I had thought we were feeding him enough, but I am not so sure now. One day his eyesight started failing him (I could see that his eyes were cloudy) and he could not eat anymore. It was very sad, he would get excited over the smell of food but could not find it and eventually he gave up even trying to eat. Watching him slowly starve was very very sad. I can only think either we wasn't eating enough, or not the right foods, and he just wasn't the nutrients he needed to maintain his eye health.
He was a very nice, peaceful fish. They also need sand bed to sleep in, that is a must.
I just came home from school one day and looky here, Marcus had bought him and put him in the tank and I could find NOTHING about it's care. So I got the dragonete through spousal impulse you could say.
He is like a very large mandarin dragonete. Gradually we got him to eat a few different prepared foods (but started with live brine) but the problem was I had two tangs, and even though I target fed him with a turkey baster, he had a real tough time getting enough food with the greedy fish around. But he did learn what the turkey baster was and would approach it for food.
I don't know if you can tell from the photo but that is a big fish, like 7 inches long.
I had thought we were feeding him enough, but I am not so sure now. One day his eyesight started failing him (I could see that his eyes were cloudy) and he could not eat anymore. It was very sad, he would get excited over the smell of food but could not find it and eventually he gave up even trying to eat. Watching him slowly starve was very very sad. I can only think either we wasn't eating enough, or not the right foods, and he just wasn't the nutrients he needed to maintain his eye health.
He was a very nice, peaceful fish. They also need sand bed to sleep in, that is a must.
Hi Dan; He was pretty cool.I got him a invert shipper from Queensland. He warned me to be verry carefull of him because it is the most venismus creature in the world. Anyway I had special 90 gal sealed tank for him.As you know the need a lot of water movement to keep them healthy. They are really smart too.After he got used to me .he used to come to the front of the tank at night and waite for me to feed him. The only bad thing is they don' live long. I had him for 10months and 4days before he died. I was so sad when he died. The best 500 bucks I ever spent.
We occasionally get tank raised octopii at one of the LFS I frequent here in Phoenix. They use em in some kinda biology/whatnot classes and donate them to the LFS...so we can get tank raises baby octos for around $50....they are *way* cute, *way* interesting and I would luv to get some once I get a better setup at our new house.
Laura:That fingered dragonette looks a lot like a banded sea robin that I used to have, cool fish...
Laura:That fingered dragonette looks a lot like a banded sea robin that I used to have, cool fish...
Being relatively new to this hobby... the most interesting critters for me have been my queen conch (who died this summer, I am still trying to figure out the cause of that), a lawnmower blenny that loved Nirvana, and my clownfish.
I could spend hours watching the queen conch jump across the sand, watching her eat, watching her bury herself into the sand bed and hide for a month with just a single spire of her shell poking out. This is quite possibly the neatest animal I have kept so far. In the future, I'd like to build a biotopic system around these animals, but that's been put into the pipe dream box for now.
My lawnmower blenny never took prepared foods. He was a neat fish though, probably the most awesome personality I have had in a fish so far. Every time I put on Nirvana in the tank room, he'd come out and kind of dance around in the water. It was neat. I watched him starve to death, and I cried when I realized what was happening.
My clownfish... I love my clownfish. This probably seems weird, because they're such a common fish in the hobby, but I just think ocellaris are neat. I love to watch them swim, I love to watch them pillow in their colt. Heck, I just love to watch them. Now that they are spawning, they've got even more fascination for me. I'm always checking around the colt for a new patch of eggs.
J.
I could spend hours watching the queen conch jump across the sand, watching her eat, watching her bury herself into the sand bed and hide for a month with just a single spire of her shell poking out. This is quite possibly the neatest animal I have kept so far. In the future, I'd like to build a biotopic system around these animals, but that's been put into the pipe dream box for now.
My lawnmower blenny never took prepared foods. He was a neat fish though, probably the most awesome personality I have had in a fish so far. Every time I put on Nirvana in the tank room, he'd come out and kind of dance around in the water. It was neat. I watched him starve to death, and I cried when I realized what was happening.
My clownfish... I love my clownfish. This probably seems weird, because they're such a common fish in the hobby, but I just think ocellaris are neat. I love to watch them swim, I love to watch them pillow in their colt. Heck, I just love to watch them. Now that they are spawning, they've got even more fascination for me. I'm always checking around the colt for a new patch of eggs.
J.
Laura, I believe your polyp is a Pseudocorynactis sp. They are related to mushrooms and usually extend their tentacles at night. They hitchhike on live rock, and they'll spread if ya feed em. Non photosynthetic as well, obviously. Tre cool lookin!
I think an octopus is the coolest thing I've ever kept.
I think an octopus is the coolest thing I've ever kept.
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