What not to own...
- Thread starter Pinkheine
- Start date
Your case is average I have had one for about a year and it was moved from my 140 to my nano until I restart.
Incredible if I would have seen this when I first started I would have followed your advice, at least I was not stubborn enough to keep trying
My advice is not to get a mythrax Crab if You have a lot of corals and little fish. If the mythrax doesn't find food it can turn towards your corals.
And no mantis shrimp unless you do your reading on the species.
Most never survive. Alot of them are collected but you will only find a small handful of people that have had long term success with them.
- Location
- Upper East Side
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum...-cornutus-moorish-idol-spongivore-fishes.html - Keeping Moorish Idols. It cam be done, but you have to be prepared to do a lot of work.
what not to own
Bicolor Pseudochromis
why?
what did it do?
Killed 2 cleaner shrimps, 1 fire shrimp, 1 fire fish, and 1 3" Borbonius Anthias which is more than 3 times it size. and constantly attack my other fish.
there's no way you can catch it. net, fish trap, eventually I removed all the rocks. and now, it is in the jail (my sump), for its whole life.
Bicolor Pseudochromis
why?
what did it do?
Killed 2 cleaner shrimps, 1 fire shrimp, 1 fire fish, and 1 3" Borbonius Anthias which is more than 3 times it size. and constantly attack my other fish.
there's no way you can catch it. net, fish trap, eventually I removed all the rocks. and now, it is in the jail (my sump), for its whole life.
- Location
- Montclair, NJ
Ditto
- Location
- Brooklyn
Ofcourse there is always an exception to the 'rule'. If you want more info on SSS and the damage they cause check out the Reefcentral archives.
I will also pin Linkia stars to this list. After reading more about then, the purple ones might not be Linkias at all. There are so many species that look like that it is very hard for the average person to see which is which. The issue with all the linkia's is that little is known about what they actually eat. All the infomation states is 'the thin film of algae on the glass/rocks'. You can't suppliment their feeding.
I'm still going to try a Linkia in a few months though.
I will also pin Linkia stars to this list. After reading more about then, the purple ones might not be Linkias at all. There are so many species that look like that it is very hard for the average person to see which is which. The issue with all the linkia's is that little is known about what they actually eat. All the infomation states is 'the thin film of algae on the glass/rocks'. You can't suppliment their feeding.
I'm still going to try a Linkia in a few months though.
- Location
- Upper East Side
I'm going to pimp reefs magazine one more time in this thread and say that everyone should read Dom's article about keeping difficult species alive
The thing about most animals that convential wisdom says that you can't keep is that you can keep them ... provided that you understand the needs of the animal and can provide for them adequately.
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum...ng-difficult-species-thinking-inside-box.html
There are a few things that we really can't keep - carnation corals, most nudibranches and sea slugs, many starfish, harlequin sweetlips .... anything where the volume of small particulate food or types of food can never be approximated by our tiny glass oceans.
The thing about most animals that convential wisdom says that you can't keep is that you can keep them ... provided that you understand the needs of the animal and can provide for them adequately.
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum...ng-difficult-species-thinking-inside-box.html
There are a few things that we really can't keep - carnation corals, most nudibranches and sea slugs, many starfish, harlequin sweetlips .... anything where the volume of small particulate food or types of food can never be approximated by our tiny glass oceans.
mandarin - starved to death
sand sifting star - starved to death
molly miller blenny - easy to keep and will not harm sessile inverts. entertaining little fish. will harass and kill anything else eventually. had to give mine to the lfs.
sand sifting star - starved to death
molly miller blenny - easy to keep and will not harm sessile inverts. entertaining little fish. will harass and kill anything else eventually. had to give mine to the lfs.
- Location
- Ronkonkoma, NY
No problem with sand sifting starfish, may have bought one that was not acclimated correctly in which case it would slowly melt away.I have kept a pair in a 120 reef with dsb for 9 years without incident. Problem with the internet is too much false information is posted, which causes people to blame the wrong reasons for a tank crash and ignore the real problem
as some may have said... BAN TAKING NUDIBRANCHES FROM THE OCEAN...
in my experience i have found a greek goddess that eats orange sponges and a purple nudi that got so huge cause it ate a 80 dolla sponge... too expensive to feed. imo
next is cling fish.. it was in my tank for 6-7 months then one day he died. he also took more then half of my nano tank with him including corals...
next is medusa worm... angel picked at it.. next am half tank dead. no bueno.
in my experience i have found a greek goddess that eats orange sponges and a purple nudi that got so huge cause it ate a 80 dolla sponge... too expensive to feed. imo
next is cling fish.. it was in my tank for 6-7 months then one day he died. he also took more then half of my nano tank with him including corals...
next is medusa worm... angel picked at it.. next am half tank dead. no bueno.
- Location
- Holmdel NJ 07733
Purple Queen Anthias - unless you can afford to quit your job and stay home to feed them 12x a day.
Ofcourse there is always an exception to the 'rule'. If you want more info on SSS and the damage they cause check out the Reefcentral archives.
I will also pin Linkia stars to this list. After reading more about then, the purple ones might not be Linkias at all. There are so many species that look like that it is very hard for the average person to see which is which. The issue with all the linkia's is that little is known about what they actually eat. All the infomation states is 'the thin film of algae on the glass/rocks'. You can't suppliment their feeding.
I'm still going to try a Linkia in a few months though.
the only linkia I have seen people have success with is the linkia mulitflora.
- Location
- Dingmans ferry PA
ive had my purple queen anthias for 2 months and i feed them once a day.they are fat at doing great
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