20150108 Tank update

Here is a shot of my tank update! See all my fish happily swimming, and love my pair of flame angels!

20150102 Fish enjoying new era marine grazer

I thought this time-lapse video really shows how popular this treat is among my fish!

20150101 New Era mini marine grazer

Happy New Year!
Seeing that the new year can mark a new ear of something for someone, I thought it would be fitting to introduce a new food I've been studying after but have not had a chance to try until recently.
I was first told of this food by a very nice and helpful girl working at a Milwaukee's local fish store "Best Fish". At the time I suspected my gold spotted rabbitfish had an appetite for my derasa clam ( I never caught it in the act though, but it was the ONLY suspect at the time). So I expressed my concern to her and see if she has any suggestions. She then recommended this mini grazer for the fish to slowly chew down over time so it will have no time to take after other items. I was given a couple rings of them to try out but did not have the mount to prop them properly. So that was a fail.

I then ran into a nice British gentleman at the Chicago Aquatic experience who was the rep at New Era's booth. He explained the food and the feeding process along with aid of video. So I was then convinced to give it a shot. It's been a few days now in my tanks and I am convinced it's a great food for all algae grazers like tangs and rabbitfish, even angels!
In the video you can see my swallowtail angelfish going after the feeder. Before I introduced the feeder this angel actually was struggling to eat, and I believe the angel finds the idea of a stationary food source very enticing and comforting. I now highly recommend it.
The food however, is not very cheap- a 290 gram can comes with two sucker mounts was sold for $30 USD at the LFS.

20141205 180 Reef Video Update

An update of my 180 Gallon tank. Recently added four more blue eye cardinal to the school. And the two flame angels are really calming down and forming a bonded pair with occasional courting dances. The three herbivores: Desjardini tang, foxface rabbitfish, and the gold spotted rabbitfish are now getting along very well and are the tank's "BIG THREE" at feeding time.

20141006 Derasa Clam nipped!

For the last two months I have been keeping my Derasa clam separately in a 75G RR that I have set up to allow the two squamosa clams more room to stretch. But two weeks ago I discovered that the Derasa clam have not been opening. So I decided to take it out of the 75 and place it back into my 92.

It turns out- someone has been nipping this clam! See the hole in the middle of the clam mantle (the white circle) My suspicion is the orange or gold spotted rabbitfish. Because not only the clam, the rabbitfish has also nipped on my leather corals.