Jobiwan
Well-known member
Epaulette Shark, Coral Rabbitfish and other 600 goings on
I picked up an Epaullette Shark for the 600 back in July, he's still very shy and nocturnal, I can be found every other night around midnight with my red astronomy flashlight feeding him, Scott Michaels says he is the best shark around for our hobby, he's got a small mouth and lives mainly on worms and such, hopefully he won't deveop an appetite for Flame Angels as he approaches 3 feet, we shall see. Here's a couple of photos, he's currently around 14 inches long, he's grown a couple of inches and is eating well on a conglomeration of assorted seafood counter glop. I bought 6 feet of 2" dia cold cast acrylic tubing to make a feeding tube to direct the glop right to him, I think it is taming him somewhat. Here are a couple of lousy photos, I'll try to get better ones down the road.
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This gives a rough idea of the feeding tube setup, I used a small butane torch to heat the other end of a three foot tube and minipulate the acrylic out into a flared funnel like opening, I shove frozen chunks in that end and then place it in the tank as shown, the glop thaws rapidly, then I pounr a coupleof cups of tank water into the flared end and the food goes down right to the bottom, ends up right where you direct it rather than going all over the tank. My CL's are shut down at night now so that also helps with the target feeding concept...
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Here's a few pics of an Coral Rabbitfish that Jesse gave me a couple of months ago as he was outgrowing his tank. He is a beautiful fish, I identified him at first as a Siganus corallinus, but as his coloration has continued to develop I'm fairly certain that he is a tetrazonus, the Indonesian Coral Rabbitfish. He's almost as big as my Vlamingi, they battled it out quite a bit the first couple of weeks, one day I observed several lesions on the side of the Vlamingi, then I noticed that the fleshy covering on several of the rabbitfishes venomous dorsal spines were peeled back. Since that day the Vlamingi has been on his best behavior and peace and harmony has reigned, having been stung by a rabbitfish myself I can understand why.....
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As you can imagine I go through an insane amount of Nori, I started buying 2000 sheets at a time direct from a California importer, Safeway was getting 2 expensive since I was using at least 5 sheets a day...
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I picked up an Epaullette Shark for the 600 back in July, he's still very shy and nocturnal, I can be found every other night around midnight with my red astronomy flashlight feeding him, Scott Michaels says he is the best shark around for our hobby, he's got a small mouth and lives mainly on worms and such, hopefully he won't deveop an appetite for Flame Angels as he approaches 3 feet, we shall see. Here's a couple of photos, he's currently around 14 inches long, he's grown a couple of inches and is eating well on a conglomeration of assorted seafood counter glop. I bought 6 feet of 2" dia cold cast acrylic tubing to make a feeding tube to direct the glop right to him, I think it is taming him somewhat. Here are a couple of lousy photos, I'll try to get better ones down the road.
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This gives a rough idea of the feeding tube setup, I used a small butane torch to heat the other end of a three foot tube and minipulate the acrylic out into a flared funnel like opening, I shove frozen chunks in that end and then place it in the tank as shown, the glop thaws rapidly, then I pounr a coupleof cups of tank water into the flared end and the food goes down right to the bottom, ends up right where you direct it rather than going all over the tank. My CL's are shut down at night now so that also helps with the target feeding concept...
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Here's a few pics of an Coral Rabbitfish that Jesse gave me a couple of months ago as he was outgrowing his tank. He is a beautiful fish, I identified him at first as a Siganus corallinus, but as his coloration has continued to develop I'm fairly certain that he is a tetrazonus, the Indonesian Coral Rabbitfish. He's almost as big as my Vlamingi, they battled it out quite a bit the first couple of weeks, one day I observed several lesions on the side of the Vlamingi, then I noticed that the fleshy covering on several of the rabbitfishes venomous dorsal spines were peeled back. Since that day the Vlamingi has been on his best behavior and peace and harmony has reigned, having been stung by a rabbitfish myself I can understand why.....
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As you can imagine I go through an insane amount of Nori, I started buying 2000 sheets at a time direct from a California importer, Safeway was getting 2 expensive since I was using at least 5 sheets a day...
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