The Mangrove Jungle

[CaseyP]

Day 10:
With the masstick I was also experimenting mixing in Cobalt Mysis flakes that I got from @Darkxerox , whose copperband likes to eat. After they developed a taste for it, I then started just laying whole flakes on the acro skeleton and they started to pick at it. Not aggressively, but they would eat some, swim away, then come back for more. They even started eating it out of the water column now that they recognized it as food. They seem to have more grazing tendencies rather than gluttons trying to eat every last bit as fast as possible. I just have to reset the flakes that fall to the bottom but sucking it up with a pipette then letting it fall down the water column again or lay it on an acro. Flakes gives me a lot of confidence that they'll be fine with an autofeeder when I'm not home for an extended period.

 

[richiev]

Day 10:
With the masstick I was also experimenting mixing in Cobalt Mysis flakes that I got from @Darkxerox , whose copperband likes to eat. After they developed a taste for it, I then started just laying whole flakes on the acro skeleton and they started to pick at it. Not aggressively, but they would eat some, swim away, then come back for more. They even started eating it out of the water column now that they recognized it as food. They seem to have more grazing tendencies rather than gluttons trying to eat every last bit as fast as possible. I just have to reset the flakes that fall to the bottom but sucking it up with a pipette then letting it fall down the water column again or lay it on an acro. Flakes gives me a lot of confidence that they'll be fine with an autofeeder when I'm not home for an extended period.


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such a pretty fish. I hope it works out!

 

[dangalang]

Day 10:
With the masstick I was also experimenting mixing in Cobalt Mysis flakes that I got from @Darkxerox , whose copperband likes to eat. After they developed a taste for it, I then started just laying whole flakes on the acro skeleton and they started to pick at it. Not aggressively, but they would eat some, swim away, then come back for more. They even started eating it out of the water column now that they recognized it as food. They seem to have more grazing tendencies rather than gluttons trying to eat every last bit as fast as possible. I just have to reset the flakes that fall to the bottom but sucking it up with a pipette then letting it fall down the water column again or lay it on an acro. Flakes gives me a lot of confidence that they'll be fine with an autofeeder when I'm not home for an extended period.


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Beautiful fish, nice photos too!

 

[Kensington Reefer]

positive vibrations...
truly one of nature's most beautiful

 

[Darkxerox]

Saw my mom embroidered one when I visited:

 

[derek_SR]

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Pelvic fin is all wrong

jk

 

[dochou]

Wow Casey! That's awesome that you could acclimate them to prep'd foods so quickly. It's just like the guy in the video.
Will these guys eventually be transferred to the main display tank? Or will they stay in this tank.
Where did you buy them from? I might give these fish a try too!

 

[CaseyP]

Wow Casey! That's awesome that you could acclimate them to prep'd foods so quickly. It's just like the guy in the video.
Will these guys eventually be transferred to the main display tank? Or will they stay in this tank.
Where did you buy them from? I might give these fish a try too!

I'm surprised how quickly they acclimated too. I've had far more struggles with certain wrasses and seahorses. I plan on keeping them in this 30g tank which is a nice work distraction display in my office. As cool as they'd be in the main display, I don't want to risk them bothering my acros even if other people have said that if you have plenty of acros, they bother them but won't kill them. My main display also has 24+ fish and some are very boisterous so I'd worry about them getting enough food.

I bought them from Dr.Reefs since I had some credit from a while back. They were $40 each for "quarantined". I don't fully trust Dr. Reefs for 100% disease free since I had a bad experience, but the price was right and this way I knew they weren't coming to me straight from the wholesaler overseas.

 

[CaseyP]

If anyone is interested in getting some orange spotted filefish, I may be ordering 2 more females. Benefit is split shipping cost ($70) and I could offer training them for you. With my two eating flakes like pigs I'm pretty confident that the new ones would catch on quick.

Unfortunately my male jumped, which is strange because he was the most aggressive chasing the females around. The bigger female chases the smaller one at times so I want to spread around the aggression.

Disclaimer: No guarantee on getting them fully eating flakes and/or masstick. Also know that they nip acropora by nature and will probably continue to do so if your tank has them.