I want your opinions!

[Ishai Thatcher]

Hey everyone, I recently uploaded to YouTube again after a few year hiatus. Back in the day I had a decent clownfish breeding and reef tank channel.
My tank is in a pretty cool place again now!
I have a shark and a moray both in a reef tank!
There is the link to my video, it’s pretty poorly done and overly long but please check it out if your curious and have a moment. The shark feeding is towards then end of the video if you wanna skip past all the talking.

 

[Who me?]

So what exactly are you wanting opinions on?

 

[Ishai Thatcher]

So what exactly are you wanting opinions on?

Just what you think! I really need advice on like cool strains of sps that won’t destroy my back account to put on that middle rock as well! And any last fish suggestions, I was personally thinking a goby pair and a mandarin pair, and then seahorses for my empty tank!

 

[WheatToast]

Great looking system! My knowledge on eels is limited, though I have spent quite a lot of time reading on elasmobranch care. Here's some feedback:
- I don't think the tank looks that bad despite the lack of coral. Your fish selection is gorgeous!
- Have you ever thought of gluing sand on the exposed parts of the eel pipes or surrounding them in rubble? I personally wouldn't mind seeing the pipes, but your opinion might be different.
- If you record any more videos of the reef, try attaching the orange filter to the camera with some tape.
- I wouldn't exactly call the shark reef-safe. Sharks and rays are known to bump into corals and anemones, injuring both themselves and the Cnidarian victim. One Reef2Reef member reported having a round stingray (Urobatis halleri) knocking over frags.
- Chiloscyllium species should be housing in tanks with a capacity pushing 360 gallons as they grow (one source recommends 750 gallons and larger still for breeding sharks). The patterning on Apache better matches that of lighter-colored, juvenile Chiloscyllium punctatum, the brownbanded bamboo shark. Online sources say both C. punctatum and C. plagiosum (the whitespotted bamboo shark) can grow over 30 inches long (even 40 or 50 inches for C. punctatum).
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/sharksandrays/brown-banded-bamboo-shark-bio-profile-t12.html
- The pods appear to be Amphipods. These are said to be too large for mandarinfish to consume (what you are looking for are the smaller copepods). These Amphipods are great scavengers though.

P.S. do you know if Apache is a male or female? Try checking for claspers near the shark's pelvic fins (though these might not be well developed considering the shark's age).