I've found that the new Avid Aqua holders are pretty urchin resistant. @Invictus and I were thinking of doing a group buy for the club (on the next BOD meeting agenda).
210 gallon Dream tank
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I assume you mean these things?
I've actually heard good things about them on several utube videos. Crazy enough the 210 doesn't have any frag racks on the glass. This is a fist time for one of my tanks lol. I wouldn't be opposed to trying one out over the current ones I have in use. With luck I will be table to keep any racks from being on the glass in the 210.
I have about 5 in the main sps tank still. It's slightly embarrassing to say how many I use to have in the tanks. I have 2 different drawers stuff with ones I'm no longer using. In addition to others scattered around in various places.
I'll figure out what I want the tank to feature and how I want the tank to look as far as sectioning things off. Than I may try gluing a few frags down. Maybe it will catch on in my head. All my previous editions of displays I've basically treated as frag tanks never gluing anything.
The sps tank has force my hand being that many of the coral have encrusted over the frag seats and plugs fusing themselves to the rock structures and frag racks. I didn't intend to have any of them actually glued in place.
Coral reefer
Past President
Give in and put them in the big boy!
I went ahead and picked up two tuxedo urchins while at AC. I also took a gamble and grabbed 2 Halloween hermits, and one similar sized red leg hermit.
Reef flux is still in the system. It's the begging of day 8. Alage looks thinner yet I don't see a crazy difference as of yet. Hopefully between that and urchins I see at least some improvement over the next week.
I'm hoping the green corsis wrasse will leave the bigger hermits alone.
He's gotten much bigger since going into the 210 and I'm suspecting without wittinessing it that he's probably sniping clean up crew including some of the smaller snails.
This is based only on his size and aggression/ dominance over the other wrasses. The yellow corsis wrasse seems way to small mouth size to eat hermits, so is the melanurus wrasse.
A further observation is when I feed the puffer the green corsis wrasse aggressively eats the krill as well. When the other fish larger than him ignore them.
I don't think it's the puffer as he refuses to eat anything except krill, mysis and brine shrimp. I can't get him to eat clams on half shell for nothing. He nips at shell tastes it than ignores it no matter what do with it to get his attention. He won't nip at one again for several days. Even if I take tbe clam meat make it the size of krill he still had zero intrest.
Reef flux is still in the system. It's the begging of day 8. Alage looks thinner yet I don't see a crazy difference as of yet. Hopefully between that and urchins I see at least some improvement over the next week.
I'm hoping the green corsis wrasse will leave the bigger hermits alone.
He's gotten much bigger since going into the 210 and I'm suspecting without wittinessing it that he's probably sniping clean up crew including some of the smaller snails.
This is based only on his size and aggression/ dominance over the other wrasses. The yellow corsis wrasse seems way to small mouth size to eat hermits, so is the melanurus wrasse.
A further observation is when I feed the puffer the green corsis wrasse aggressively eats the krill as well. When the other fish larger than him ignore them.
I don't think it's the puffer as he refuses to eat anything except krill, mysis and brine shrimp. I can't get him to eat clams on half shell for nothing. He nips at shell tastes it than ignores it no matter what do with it to get his attention. He won't nip at one again for several days. Even if I take tbe clam meat make it the size of krill he still had zero intrest.
Turkeysammich
Moderator
Dunno if there’s any similarities. Erin’s freshwater puffer doesn’t really eat clams. He will crack them all up and eat a little. Not what you would think tho. Erin said he also feeds him squid. I found it very interesting. @Kensington Reefer
Kensington Reefer
Supporting Member
Not squid…large prawns, frozen solid…chomp chomp chomp!
The mbu does eat the clams but there are fish that swoop in and steal bits before the puffer can get to the freshly crunched clam.
The puffer ain’t starving! It’s 6 years old….over 2 feet
Mine is probably 5 inches so maybe I'll try to fine some small shell on shrimp krill size. Prawns are probably longer than he is.
Though I haven't tried squid. I don't wanna try silver sides and get him seeing smaller fish as food.
Coral reefer
Past President
I’ve always liked to feed the frozen formula one and VHP formula cubes to puffers and lions.
Hmmm. Could you write the brand and full names of these two you mentioned. I would like to look them up and keep a eye out for them. I'm kinda clueless as to what specific ones you're refrencing.
I see various ones in freezer sections but no experience with them so I tend not to grab random ones.
I feed the other fish a variety of frozen foods/ alages I would love to get the puffer more variety as well.
Kensington Reefer
Supporting Member
Bait shop…grass shrimp
Coral reefer
Past President
Ocean nutrition. Formula one and VHP (very high protein/predator). Full cubes. Bigger pieces. Less mess