mjc
12-19-2003, 05:57 PM
Just thought I'd share this and start a thread sharing my fish and experiences with them. I presume some of you have these and may also want to share your experience in this forum.
Some of the guys on this forum may know this already, but I come into alot of livestock as I buy and sell because I have a company for building and servicing SW aquariums. My favorites are my angels and lionfish.
Over the past year, I bought (and sold) dozens of lionfish, angels, tangs, clowns, dottybacks, groupers, puffers, eels, wrasses, snappers, basses, gobies, sharks and triggers. I know there's a few others, like the occassional sweetlip, pork or hogfish, but these tend to be the most common.
I have three angelfish in my 125g. The tank measures 60x20x24 with a 40g sump/refugium with 3" DSB, EuroReef CS6-2, four powerheads, 200# DSB consisting of oolitic sand, and approx. 150# of fiji, carribean, and tonga LR. This tank was originally established as a reef but after receiving some tanks from clients I decided to setup the reef in those instead.
The tank mates are a volitans lion, harlequin tusk, a small 3" clown trigger, a pair of gold striped maroon clownfish and a splendid and six-bar dottyback.
The harlequin and the clowns will be coming out as they're getting large (HT = 6", clowns, F=4.5", M=2") for the tank, the HT grew 2" in the last year, the F-clown grew almost an inch.
The angels are sized approximately 4 - 6"; a Blue faced (Euxiphipops xanthometapon), a Queen (Holacanthus ciliaris), and an Emporer (Pomacanthus imperator).
FOOD
They all take dried flake and pellets (Ocean Nutrition Formula 1, Formula 2, Brien Shrimp and Priem Reef flakes and the Spectrum Pellets), I also supplement with ON's prepared frozen angelfood as well as frozen mysis, brine shrimp, prime reef, and the frozen occassional silverside and krill. As for live food, it's brine shrimp and once in a while it will chase down a guppy or two (queen).
TEMPERMENT
EMPORER ANGEL
The Emporer is non aggressive and well respected by his tankmates. I added him last year when this was a reef tank and hadn't had any problems with him nipping my corals. I've always liked the looks of this fish and am glad I purchased one. It's a mild mannered fish that immediately took to my tank. I've had him for over a year and he's respected even by my Volitans and Harlequin Tusk. I've purchased several in the past for clients and have had them in reefs without any consequences.
http://store6.yimg.com/I/marinedepotlive_1774_8202324%20
QUEEN ANGEL
The Queen is a very majestic, but devilish looking fish. It also happens to chases my Blue Face. The Queen was given to me by one of my clients, as it was eating her corals (She bought it without doing the research) and it was also chasing and nipping at her anthias. The Queen is non-aggressive to others except it would occassionally chase the Blue Faced, but otherwise gets along with everyone.
http://store6.yimg.com/I/marinedepotlive_1774_8384962%20
BLUE FACED ANGEL
Despite what is said about the Blue Faced, mine is quite shy and timid, even before I added the Queen. When first introduced, they would hide for upwards to a week before venturing out and staying in the open. Mine waited for food to drift by to eat it vs. going to the source. I've purchased three of these for clients and had to have one for myself.
http://store6.yimg.com/I/marinedepotlive_1768_7871844%20
Pictures are used with permission of Marine Depot, copyrighted by Marine Depot and Bob Fenner.
Some of the guys on this forum may know this already, but I come into alot of livestock as I buy and sell because I have a company for building and servicing SW aquariums. My favorites are my angels and lionfish.
Over the past year, I bought (and sold) dozens of lionfish, angels, tangs, clowns, dottybacks, groupers, puffers, eels, wrasses, snappers, basses, gobies, sharks and triggers. I know there's a few others, like the occassional sweetlip, pork or hogfish, but these tend to be the most common.
I have three angelfish in my 125g. The tank measures 60x20x24 with a 40g sump/refugium with 3" DSB, EuroReef CS6-2, four powerheads, 200# DSB consisting of oolitic sand, and approx. 150# of fiji, carribean, and tonga LR. This tank was originally established as a reef but after receiving some tanks from clients I decided to setup the reef in those instead.
The tank mates are a volitans lion, harlequin tusk, a small 3" clown trigger, a pair of gold striped maroon clownfish and a splendid and six-bar dottyback.
The harlequin and the clowns will be coming out as they're getting large (HT = 6", clowns, F=4.5", M=2") for the tank, the HT grew 2" in the last year, the F-clown grew almost an inch.
The angels are sized approximately 4 - 6"; a Blue faced (Euxiphipops xanthometapon), a Queen (Holacanthus ciliaris), and an Emporer (Pomacanthus imperator).
FOOD
They all take dried flake and pellets (Ocean Nutrition Formula 1, Formula 2, Brien Shrimp and Priem Reef flakes and the Spectrum Pellets), I also supplement with ON's prepared frozen angelfood as well as frozen mysis, brine shrimp, prime reef, and the frozen occassional silverside and krill. As for live food, it's brine shrimp and once in a while it will chase down a guppy or two (queen).
TEMPERMENT
EMPORER ANGEL
The Emporer is non aggressive and well respected by his tankmates. I added him last year when this was a reef tank and hadn't had any problems with him nipping my corals. I've always liked the looks of this fish and am glad I purchased one. It's a mild mannered fish that immediately took to my tank. I've had him for over a year and he's respected even by my Volitans and Harlequin Tusk. I've purchased several in the past for clients and have had them in reefs without any consequences.
http://store6.yimg.com/I/marinedepotlive_1774_8202324%20
QUEEN ANGEL
The Queen is a very majestic, but devilish looking fish. It also happens to chases my Blue Face. The Queen was given to me by one of my clients, as it was eating her corals (She bought it without doing the research) and it was also chasing and nipping at her anthias. The Queen is non-aggressive to others except it would occassionally chase the Blue Faced, but otherwise gets along with everyone.
http://store6.yimg.com/I/marinedepotlive_1774_8384962%20
BLUE FACED ANGEL
Despite what is said about the Blue Faced, mine is quite shy and timid, even before I added the Queen. When first introduced, they would hide for upwards to a week before venturing out and staying in the open. Mine waited for food to drift by to eat it vs. going to the source. I've purchased three of these for clients and had to have one for myself.
http://store6.yimg.com/I/marinedepotlive_1768_7871844%20
Pictures are used with permission of Marine Depot, copyrighted by Marine Depot and Bob Fenner.