Roidan's Reef (II)

[terryansimon]

bloodshrimps tend to be shy, but if you buy a bigger quantity *like me. I bought 6 at one go*, they tend to crowd together. however I've split the rockwork like how Moses parted the Red Sea and now I have three on the left rock formation and three on the right formation. and they STILL clean my fishes....my Bartletts like getting serviced by them. the sole CS I have has its feelers/claws/whatever extentions filled with my tangs and Moorish Idols. (=

[Achilles Tang]

I need an ID on these mysterious jellyfish you got in your tank!

[Terryz_]

Those are the seaweed clips lar...LOLz...

[roidan]

I need an ID on these mysterious jellyfish you got in your tank! 

HAHA...boss...u nearly made me fall off my chair

compare with this pic

leafy in the day, my tangs devour them leaving the stems every night

[FuEl]

I need an ID on these mysterious jellyfish you got in your tank!

Lolx..AT..those are his veggie clips! The 'tentacles' are the vege stalks!

[jd_n]

Its actually rodian's cuttlefish tat he gonna have it later to go along with his beer

[Achilles Tang]

Lolx..AT..those are his veggie clips! The 'tentacles' are the vege stalks!

Ah damn!!

The discovery of the century... lost from my grasp!

I could have been famous.... I could have a new species named after me.... Achillicalis Roidanita (see, Roidan, I shared some credit with you!)

[roidan]

tonight our boss abit

yeah....anyway, talking about vege clips, are there any side effects with long term feeding of tangs with terrestrial vegetables?

other than washing them thoroughly to remove pesticides, any nutritional disadvantages?

[FuEl]

Terrestial veges can be deficient in certain minerals like iodine, etc which are more abundant in marine plants. Guess it would be best to feed nori or maybe even ulva. I used to feed my YT dried nori..the type which hokkien people call 'or chai' to make soup.

[Terryz_]

'or chai' = Black vege???

Roidan,, Why dun you continue feeding ulva... Tot you got...

[roidan]

yeah i agree...

best to vary a few types of food....they still gobble at the pellets i throw in...

so i guess they can get iodine and wat not from the pellets...

the veges are just like chewing gum for them...anytime they need a good chew, they can head for the clips

yeah..but the rate they devour the ulva is much faster than the ulva grows in my sump....thus i tried to use terrestrial veges...and they also chomp down the veges....

so i just feed them ulva sparingly lor...

[roidan]

great news to share:

looks who's lurking around?

[roidan]

[roidan]

am i dreaming??

[roidan]

i think i am really dreaming

[roidan]

he must be so happy with my 1st water change that he decided to swim out and let me know he appreciates the water change gesture...haha

as for the other one..maybe hiding with him..but sent him out as representative

my royal gramma did not chase him....my yellow tang kinda did

finally, some open water pics of blackcap gramma swimming here

[roidan]

the blackcap vs the royal gramma

[roidan]

[roidan]

beautiful back portion

really shy..but at least i know one is still alive

[roidan]

[roidan]

trying to blend in with the purple queens?

[roidan]

last shot..

[roidan]

yes!!! i have visual confirmation both are alive!!...saw the other one sharing the same rock as the royal gramma ..but whereas the royal gramma uses the holes on the rock facing the front glass...the other blackcap appears from behind the same rock..on the dark side facing the backglass....cannot capture it...but i saw it!! yipeee..not dead..hehe

this is the other bolder one that i took yesterday...manage to take it again today

[roidan]

[roidan]

THEY are ALIVE!