Royal Gamma n Black cap Gamma

[xfusion]

Can put both in a 4 footer? currently haf a royal gamma.

[reefer guy]

i doubt so.... they r territorial by nature... black cap is damn nice, so it as well early this evening at PR... makes me wanna give up my brazilian

[DeepBlue]

I saw my ROYAL gramma (from LCK recently) open his big mouth (like my brazilian gramma) at the lyretail blenny in my 2ft tank... think it is territorial.

Guy may be mild in temper...but not so with fishes of small size or same genus......

I will probably get one blackcap soon...will try it out in my 2ft tank and see how it goes.....if there's aggression...can catch easily

[xfusion]

bro deepblue, do update me when u get the black cap..

[FuEl]

Erm..the black cap costs a bomb does'nt it?

[DeepBlue]

yup...thats why I am saving for it....and I'm working....

can almost buy queen angel.....

[Terryz_]

Think gonna burn a super big hole in anyone's pocket/wallet.... LOzl

[FuEl]

Hai...too bad i keeping small crustaceans...now can't even keep royal gramma or black cap unless I get another tank?

Heh..looks like I have to spend the $$ to buy blue neon gobies.

[Terryz_]

More ex den the yellow ones...

[lightningstrike]

i'll wait b4 i commit..... currently hv a purple dottyback and a royal gramma....... wonder the black cap can become frenz with them....

[Hon]

where to get black cap????

[AlfaRomeo]

Hon, at PReef.

[weileong]

where to get black cap????

you going to grab today?

[Hon]

Chiong ar!!!... should I take half day leave???

[roidan]

Chiong ar!!!... should I take half day leave???

i think you should...

choose personally better...it's not very cheap...better choose the gramma of your eyes

[roidan]

The single most important 'tip' on picking Grammas I can grant you is to be patient; wait a good week or two after your supplier receives theirs to purchase them.

For tank-raised individuals, this brief period will allow acclimation to aquarium conditions and virtually eliminate incidental losses.

Freshly imported caught specimens way too often suffer from post-decompression stress... and something else; the ill-effects of chemical tranquilizing. Florida outlaws the use of quinaldine and MS-222 (tricaine) but their use in other capture areas of the Caribbean is pervasive. Though not the scourge of cyanide use, there is decidedly higher mortalities associated with true anesthetic versus 'pure' hand netting.

How to tell which type of capture technique has been used? You can't; just wait for a week or two. Trust me.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/grammas.htm

i think after this weekend...no more liao...haha..

where can wait for 2 weeks?

[roidan]

Territoriality in these species dictates that they be safely kept one to a tank... unless you can buy 'known pairs', or have a five or six foot plus wide system. Each individual needs about a half yard of bottom. If you intend to try your luck with more than one to a tank, by all means place them all at once.

[Nic a Jon]

bro Roidan,

Can i just confirm If u have small inverts eg. cleaner shrimps , they are mostly likely to be eaten by black cap gamma

[roidan]

after putting in my blackcaps..the only stuff that disappeared are the blackcaps themselves...

still seeing my shrimps around

[AlfaRomeo]

As per various ppl, the grammas only eat/attack smaller shrimps like mysis etc etc.. so i think cleaner/peppermint/blood shrimps should be ok with the grammas...

[Nic a Jon]

thot they semi-aggresive and territorial...might not be so safe to have one if there are small inverts around . but if there are reefers who have experience having black cap co exist peacefuly with small invert...might be thinking of getting one

[AlfaRomeo]

Should be ok I guess Nic. The real question for Roidan is if the black caps are aggressive against the royal gramma. Any findings bro Roidan?

[roidan]

not aggressive at all....in my observation

because they disappeared into the shades and the back rocks...while the royal gramma is swimming in the open...

i bet the royal gramma doesn't even know i added the blackcaps in...haha

[AlfaRomeo]

Thats good to hear Roidan. As for myself, my royal gramma have started to be more adventurous and exploring the tank and the 6-liner got bored of terrorizing it so leaving it alone now. Guess my royal gramma passed the test of the 6-liner.

Now do i subject it to the test of the black cap gramma? hehehe

[roidan]

i think u should....coz you have the luxury of going to the back of the tank to locate where the blackcaps are if they wanna hide in the shade, i dunno what is happening behind the rocks...

since you can go to the other side of the tank and see the behind, go ahead and get the blackcaps..haha