Bongo Shrimp's 10g Tide Pool

[Bongo Shrimp]

:::NOW 25g:::

Ok, so I'm starting my tide pool tank. It will be a predator tank with anglers. I got just a simple cheap kit with a tank, filter, light, and hood. The lights are CF for now but I'm 90% sure I'll switch to T-5 since I have an old retro fit kit laying around from my biocube before I went to LEDs. Also will be adding a nano skimmer eventually and a heater hopefully by friday.

I really set this tank up solely because of an angler I fell in love with. I didn't do too much planning so I'm not exactly sure what else will go in it. It is one of those things that I'll figure it out as I go. The theme is supposed to be tide pool like so maybe some sponges or seaweed but NO MACRO!

10g Glass Breeder
Aqueon Filter (for a 10g, came in the kit)
CF T-12(?) Light (came in the kit)

~8.75lbs of Cured LR
~3lbs of Dry Sand
Seeded with some Live Sand from a ~6 year old reef tank.


Livestock:
Hopefully on Friday (if params are good) a Wartskin Angler (A. pictus)
Some Hermits
A Few Tiger Trochus Snails

Some bad pics from my iPhone:
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photo-1-1.jpg

The star of the tank for now:
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photo.jpg

And here's Waldo as he has been named by the guys at the shop. He eats frozen krill and squid.
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/DSC_0292.jpg

So, what do you think of it so far? It's a beginning, I think.

[MizTanks]

First let me say our iPhones take pretty good pics :)) and these prove it!
Sweet crab what kind is it? I'm looking forward to watching this tank grow.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Thanks guys. Yeah I guess the pics aren't too bad, it's my iPhone 4 so...

And the crab is a halloween hermit (Ciliopagurus strigatus).

[jolson10450]

i've always wanted an angler. i decided to go with a mantis instead because i could house it in a 5.5g rather than a 10g, the 5.5g fit perfect on my desk top under my hutch.

[ReeferRob]

good stuff, thought Anglers were poisonous? What happened to the fish breeding?

[Bongo Shrimp]

I thought they were too but found out otherwise. When I hold him sometimes he puffs up a little. And as for breeding I'm working on my cards if they would spawn again, and maybe mandarins (spotted). Oh and also seahorses.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Ok, got the T5s on there. I took them from my old biocube hood before I had the LEDs on the reef. They are fine for all LPS and some SPS. They are 20" Nova Extreme T5s and I have four, two daylight and two actinic.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Well, I went to the LFS today to see Waldo but he has velvet now. We're going to dip him this week to see if he gets better but IDK. :( :tear:

[Bongo Shrimp]

Arriving on Friday(?):
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/imagephp.jpg

[Sir Patrick]

Poor Waldo!! Hows he doing?

[Bongo Shrimp]

I'm probably gonna call to check on him tomorrow, then I'll let you all know.

[Hindered]

That's a beast mode light! I hope Waldo gets better!

[Bongo Shrimp]

More pics coming soon.

[MizTanks]

How's Waldo???

[Bongo Shrimp]

He's hangin in there. He looked really good so I brought him home the other day. I think he still has something wrong with him since he won't eat. IDK. :shrug:

[Bongo Shrimp]

Ok, I just decided to move all my zoas out of my reef and into the 10g. They just never did well in my reef so I think I can save/grow/propagate them better and more easily in the smaller safer environment.

So now the zoas I have in there are:
Purple Hornets
Rastas
Nightmares
Darth Mauls
Emeralds on Fire
Paradise Zoas
Tubbs Blues
LA Lakers
Some Green Sparkly Zoas (have a name but I forgot it)
Some Palys that have a name but I haven't looked it up yet. (given to me as a freebie)

I also have two yumas and some ultra rare Blue Green Purple and Orange SYMPODIUM.

[demonclownfish]

hopefully lil' waldo starts eating :(. and the green sparkly are probably milky ways if they are tiny.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Yep that's it, milky ways. And Waldo seems interested in food today! Hasn't eaten, but seems interested.

[Bongo Shrimp]

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/FocusResult3B84nmarked.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/FocusResult2B84nmarked.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/FocusResultB84nmarked.jpg

[Sir Patrick]

Wheres Waldo???

[Bongo Shrimp]

I got a pic coming...
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[MizTanks]

We want Waldoooo! We want Waldooo!

[Bongo Shrimp]

Yeah so Waldo kicked the bucket a few days ago.

Somehow I was able to pull some strings to get this killer.

Meet Rouge-
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photo-7marked.jpg

I need to get him eating frozen but it is rumored that at the wholesaler he ate live ghost shrimp.

And not new but...

Rainbow Yuma:
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photomarked.jpg

And a crab-
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photo-9marked.jpg

BTW these pics are terrible because I took them on my phone :/.

[MizTanks]

Does Rouge have a face or a fin somewhere?? Lol
I'm so sorry about Waldo. Such a beautiful fish. What do you think caused his demise? He was wild caught right?

[Bongo Shrimp]

I'll get a better pic later with my real camera. Yes Waldo was wild caught and I think it was a combination of the weird velvet like disease coupled with not eating. He was FW dipped a few times but it didn't seem to help.

[fstar25]

Hey bongo. Nice to see you outside RC. Sorry to read about Waldo.

I love that rainbow yuma, where did you find it. I must have one in my tank....

~Frank

[Bongo Shrimp]

Thanks fstar. Unfortunately due to past events, I am unable to disclose any of my sources. I can however assure you that as of right now, the place I got it from does not have any more.

Nothing personal. It is simply a way of protecting myself.

:bad-fish:

[MizTanks]

Bongo you workin fer da Saprano's??

[Bongo Shrimp]

Bongo you workin fer da Saprano's??

It's Sopranos, not Sapranos :guns2::guns3::armed:

[Sir Patrick]

Waldo- I thought the velvet red was cool, but that new one sure does take a close second!!! Very cool fish. Resembles a stinging black sponge perfectly!!

[fstar25]

Bongo, I understand. Disappointed but understand.

~Frank

[Bongo Shrimp]

Sorry. Again, nothing personal.

[fstar25]

Its cool, if you ever frag something like that shoot me a pm somewhere.
Cheers!

~Frank

[Bongo Shrimp]

For sure Fstar!

Rouge ate a molly today!!!

[fstar25]

Awesome!

~Frank

[Bongo Shrimp]

Well here's my healthy eater! He now eats (thawed out) FROZEN FORMULA ONE CUBES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's right, I'm a miracle worker. Thank you- Thank you...

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photo-10marked.jpg

[ReeferRob]

Nice work with the fish, how's that yuma doing?

[Bongo Shrimp]

Thanks. The yuma is getting big and might be starting to split. I might just have to help it a little...

[Bongo Shrimp]

Check out this video of Rouge eating a thawed out frozen formula one cube!!!

YouTube - Angler Fish Feeding (Watch Closely, He's Quick!)

I took it with my iPhone (in vertical mode for some reason). I'll upload an HD video soon.

[Sir Patrick]

That is pretty cool!

[Bongo Shrimp]

Thanks!!! :fish2:

[ReeferRob]

Holy cow that is quick. I would be worried that I would flintch and stab him in the mouth, but that was so quick how could you! LOL Cool fish man.

[thefishgirl]

Rogue has a face only a mother could love.
Very cool fish!! (and tank!)

[Bongo Shrimp]

Thanks guys. He is way too fast for you to flinch. It's just over before you know what happened.

Oh and by the way, I love my little angler fish...

[Bongo Shrimp]

New video!!!

YouTube - Feeding Rogue the Angler Fish

[MizTanks]

Now that was cool!


There is nothing like being a REEFER!

[Bongo Shrimp]

Thanks MizTanks!

He's such a BEAST.

[Sir Patrick]

Looked like that formula one cube gave him brain freeze!!! Cool video man.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Ugh, everyone always thinks I feed them to him frozen...

I soak it just enough so it doesn't fall apart when I grab it with the tweezers. It is sometimes only slightly cool. I am very careful about this.

[Sir Patrick]

I figured you would thaw it out. His reaction after words was just like a human brainfreeze though- you have to admit! :tongue_out:

[Bongo Shrimp]

It's more like choking or vomiting. I mean, if you've ever tried feeding a frogfish different things, you will have seen them "evacuate" certain food items. That movement is how they do it. When Rogue does it, he is just getting little particles out of his mouth.

[rosebud161616]

These guys are so cool. I have always been very interested, but the whole eating live foods part put me off. What was your secret to getting him to frozen?

[Bongo Shrimp]

When I first got him I was feeding him live mollies. I always tried to get yellow ones because they looked like frozen krill. Then I would get smaller mollies and hold a krill in the tweezers with the Mollie so he would eat both at the same time. Then I started just trying the krill by itself. At first I don't think he liked the krill but I would only give him mollies once a week. He would be getting hungry enough to just take the krill. Then I just decided to try the formula one cube and I don't know if it is just luck or what but he started eating those too. Now he loves the formula one cubes and the krill. He also associates a person looking at or standing near the tank with food because when ever anyone goes near it he flicks his little lure asking for food.

[rosebud161616]

Where you using the tweezers to feed the live mollies or where they free swimming?

[Bongo Shrimp]

I used tweezers. It is much easier to tell if he eats something when it is directly given to him. Plus they were fw mollies so they would just die in the sw eventually.

[rosebud161616]

I hope you don't mind my million questions! So the mollies were live when you use the tweezers right? I just imagine trying to get a live molly in tweezers and that seems like a huge challenge in itself.

Also... an LFS near us throws freshwater mollies in saltwater and then after a month sells them as saltwater mollies for like a $1/ea. Most make the transition, so they probably would have survived after all! :)

[Bongo Shrimp]

Yes getting the live mollies into the tweezers is not easy. They are very slippery. You cant be queasy about it. Sometimes you really have to grip them tightly. I was feeding him mollies from my LFS that were thin or deformed or dying. They gave me a discount on them since I was buying all the non desirable ones.

Truthfully, if you think about it, when your trying to teach them to feed from tweezers anyways, might as well start out that way. It makes them learn that the tweezers hold food.

[Fordris]

Love the video!

[Bongo Shrimp]

Thanks Fordris!

[Bongo Shrimp]

It's been a while since I've updated this. I lost Rogue last summer and have been working to get the params perfect ever since. Now I'm upgrading to a 25g.

Wait till you see what I have coming for this tank!

[Bongo Shrimp]

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/d0f8ad73.jpg

[MizTanks]

Hi there Bongo! Tank looks great :) like the rock scape.


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[Bongo Shrimp]

Thanks! You're gonna flip when you see what's going in it!

[Clownfish]

A Peacock Mantis, perhaps?

[Bongo Shrimp]

A Peacock Mantis, perhaps?

That's a good guess but try this:

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly8drzst271ro0gyyo1_500.jpg

[iyachtuxivm]

Wow that is pretty sweet. My wife would flip she loves cuttlefish especially that one. Flamboyant cuttlefish!

[redemer123]

wow dude, if all goes well please share any tips you may have. I have been wondering about keeping a cuttlefish for sometime now!

[MizTanks]

Nooo freaking way!!! How cool is that!

[Captain]

Cool! MORE PIXXX!

[Bongo Shrimp]

I don't have them yet!!! ;)

[Bongo Shrimp]

I haven't updated this thread in forever. Long story short the pair of flamboyants I was getting died before they could be shipped. Then I found some captive bred flamboyants for $1000 each which was crazy and then the season was over for when they would be coming in. Now the tank is an anemone tank with a tidepool feel. It has more open sand area than rock. I'll get a FTS soon but it's hard cause my light creates a spotlight effect. I'll figure a way to get a good shot.

Here's some pics:
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/9358e7d6.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/1064c74f.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/765AA731-5EAC-49C1-A431-37F988358BF0-7808-000007DDA75A28C3_zpsfd6668ca.jpg

And today I got this little gem who is eating spectrum pellets but also enjoys my bird of paradise frags and sympodium I gave him.
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/9E506DD6-DE8E-4571-A086-AD3985322166-1758-000002E039DA9CE1_zpsb601f5fa.jpg

[slapshot]

That's a crazy great picture of the butterfly. I have only seen one of those once outside of pictures. If I had not seen it with my own eyes i would not believe that he eats pellets.

[MizTanks]

Beautiful shots Bongo!!

[Bongo Shrimp]

Thanks!

Chaetodon larvatus eating pellets! Notice how fat he is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSS0uZZ4sLY&hd=1

[MizTanks]

What a beautiful fish! How big will he/she get? Do they usually eat pellets?

[slapshot]

What's really amazing is he is passing on the frags to eat pellets. That is a good sign. I wonder if anyone has kept one of these, I have never seen one in a tank let alone eat pellets

[Bongo Shrimp]

What a beautiful fish! How big will he/she get? Do they usually eat pellets?

They get to about 4". As far as I know getting one to eat pellets is literally unheard of.

[dputt88]

recently saw one of these in the store, where did you get it? maybe its the same one

[Bongo Shrimp]

recently saw one of these in the store, where did you get it? maybe its the same one

Sorry but I don't give out that kind of information.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Haven't updated this thread in a while! So I lost the butterfly to brook shortly after I got him and the clowns succumbed to brook too. Now this tank is a macro tank.

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photo_zpscb725626.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/IMG_2693_zps4d3f4028.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/IMG_2692_zpsab31f2e0.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/IMG_2690_zpsee926a5c.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/IMG_2689_zpsfa770ffe.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/IMG_2688_zps1f416e7e.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/IMG_2684_zps0e5d2eb5.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/phmoto_zps58d7e5f3.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photo_zpse2c2e2b6.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/DSC_0389_zps68483e2c.jpg

And this new gem:
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/_DSC0371_zps1da75c40.jpg

[MizTanks]

Very sorry for your losses Bongoshrimp :(

[Bongo Shrimp]

Very sorry for your losses Bongoshrimp :(

Thanks. It was a while ago anyways.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Everyone make sure to pick up a copy of Reef Hobbyist Magazine because my girlfriend and I wrote an article about macro tanks in the new issue.
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photocopy_zpsc8d8fc30.jpg

[slapshot]

Everyone make sure to pick up a copy of Reef Hobbyist Magazine because my girlfriend and I wrote an article about macro tanks in the new issue.
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photocopy_zpsc8d8fc30.jpg


Congrates!! That's sweet.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Congrates!! That's sweet.

Thanks slapshot!

[jimsflies]

Reef Hobbyists blurred your names out?


http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photocopy_zpsc8d8fc30.jpg

BTW- Whats the green coral you have in the front your tank on the sand?

[Bongo Shrimp]

Reef Hobbyists blurred your names out?



BTW- Whats the green coral you have in the front your tank on the sand?

In this tank? Not sure what you are referring to. I don't have any coral in this tank.

[jimsflies]

I'm looking at this pic...
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photo_zpscb725626.jpg

I guess its a green carpet anemone?

[Bongo Shrimp]

I'm looking at this pic...
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/photo_zpscb725626.jpg

I guess its a green carpet anemone?

Yep. Sadly I have to get rid of him. He is covering my macros and bulldozing stuff.