Vili_Shark

Amazing fish and amazing thread! Love it!

Flames can start nipping at corals after a year or more, sometimes they'll just nip a little, should'nt be a problem, but sometimes they do focus at one coral and can kill it. Same goes with clam nipping.

Hmmmm LPS no SPS at all.....few big Tear Drop Max as well.

Jap Angels in LCK.....

FME Ya can find Clowns that wont be so agressive. Almost impossible with Undulatus. Queen and Fuscus are completing the list of "The Good Fellas" Dont you forget one thing, if you house those guys in a large tank with more dicile triggers like Niger and Picasso,feed with feeder fish etc. the later will learn and become lethal machines after a couple of month only. Undulatus is a crazy trigger, I've been following a large specimen in the Red Sea, he is a gangsta there as well

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I wouldnt do that if I were ya. But it's done already. It's just that ya kill a lot of vital organism and ya dont even have a positive ID on wat you're looking for. Is it bad? is it good? did it kill your clam? Not all crabs are enemies, and also not all mantis are enemies, there are some dwarf ones that never grows large enough to kill anything significent in the tank. When ya're not sure what you're looking for, I'd never do such drastic action like you just did. However, I hope it worked for you.

They're suppose to be the same. My main concern is how are they with SPS and Clams.

It works but as hotlemond says, if you have high nitrates, do many water changes and then use the DeNitrate.

Yes I did.

Hi , I feel it's an easy fish to keep, but you have to find a good specimen. Many specimens are receiving rough handling these days, cause they are coming now mainly from Brasil, it's a LONG way. They are sensetive to Crypto and to its side effcets. Get a specimen ,first pick after the shipment, quarentine it, and you should be OK.

Ya have to ID what crab and mantis ya have, some of them even though the name have benefits. If ya wanna be on the safe side, trapping crabs is easier than Mantis, but you should start by starving your tank for a day or two, then, at night putting a glass on the bottom 45 degrees with a chunk of shrimps on the bottom of it. Lights off. Every 20 mins or so go and check what's going on with a flash light with a RED beam. I think you'll get many. For the Mantis it might be a little more complicated, check how much is the AB pest trap, they are working nice on mantis.

Nope.....LFS have one and he insists that it can live in a reef. I have doubts, but I never kept a mitratus.

Hi! I was wondering if anybody here ever kept C.mitratus in a reef tank? Thanks

To be honest, that's what I always thought, why not get a Starcki instead, they are almost identical. Till I saw the Redsplendens in real.....

Yes they can, and so can other predators. The clam could also die from other reasons and hours after it died the flesh will drop out of the shell , sometimes it's the fish who are picking on it. Ya might have a predator, but it can be that the clam died from other reason as well.

OK, and get a Starcki damsel in the meanwhile.....

DA For that price ya need few more farms to be succesful in breeding them and in big qttys, when there's be competition, the prices will fall. It will happen evantually, but we are talking years.

The prices you mentioned(us$8++) for Resplendens are high. They go for much lower in LA.

That's what I thought, Mr.Baensch. Anyway, I thought maybe the Japanese had something of their own now as well. RCT are exporting worldwise, but have very limited stocks and their policy is to have one distributer per region.

Do ya know the name of the farm? And the price for Resplendens captive bred is 1000 sin? that's like US$588??

Japanese Farm???? I thought the Japanese are buying it elsewhere. And the price is 1000.00 sin bucks???

Many years back it was one of the first sights I remember of my first reef! My cleaner shrimps fighting a big bristle worm, they both were quite big and the worm did not give up easily , but ended up after a very long time as the cleaner's dinner.

Excellent thread, I just read it all. I was wondering, you guys were mentioning Resplendens in something like S$1000.00. do ya have Resplendens in S'pore for sale? Wild caught? Captive bred?

I dont think u need Cites for fish. You might need import permit and health cert though, check everything before you buy the fish.