OrionN's 320 Reboot

[OrionN]

After PM feeding today. Both fish looking full.
Bella in the sump

Beau

 

[OrionN]

My Purple Gigantea today

 

[OrionN]

Bella today. I have not seen Beau today.

 

[Reefering1]

Bella today. I have not seen Beau today.

Looking good, nice and plump!! What are you feeding and how often?

 

[OrionN]

Looking good, nice and plump!! What are you feeding and how often?

I feed a combination of flakes and pellets. No frozen. at least 3 times a day but each time I spend a long time feeding and watching them. They often completely full after I finish.

 

[Reefering1]

What Brand/ size pellets do you prefer? I've always struggled with tiny fish. I know it's a feeding problem(I think).

 

[OrionN]

for these angels, you need .500 to .800 mm. They eat all the pellets, TDO, Otohine, Imagitarium, Hikari. I use a mixture of flakes mostly from Omega One. They don't eat flakes as well but I like to train them. Flakes really flow around and this is helpful to not overfeed and introduce more nutrient to the system than absolutely needed. In the past all my Regal angel love flakes, it is their preferred food.

 

[OrionN]

I am collecting Haddoni carpets and Rock flower anemones. Here is my budding collections

 

[OrionN]

I had my two newest tangs over the last 3 months (Desjardini) and 6 weeks (Blonde Naso). Both are doing exceptionally well and both around 4 inches right now. Rapidly become the third and fourth largest fishes in the tank.

The Desjardini is 4+ inches and started to fight back at attempts the PBT and Purple intimidated him. He still run away most of the time but as the larger fish chase him into the rock structure, as he clear the rock structure he would turn around and slap his tail into the face of the aggressor and halted it in it's track. I think a few more days and weeks of this and he will be the largest of the tangs and won't be bother by the others.
04/21/2024. He is getting beat up by the resident tangs but I was able to get food to him with Nori clips on stick, place in the rock structure so he is full. He was about 3- inches at the time

04/23/2024

Today 07/21/2024 at 4+ inches

The Blonde Naso rarely get chase or intimidated by the two dominant tangs. He just slap his tail back at them and refuse to run away. They don't chase him anymore. Attached are initial pictures, which isn't any good due to they been chase by the resident tangs, and current picture I took just now.
06/08/2024 at 3- inches

07/21/2024 at 4- inches

This is @Claybird1985 's Blonde Naso picture I took yesterday. This is how I hope mine will look like in a year or two.

 

[OrionN]

Better pictures of my Haddoni collection

 

[Overboard]

Better pictures of my Haddoni collection

That dark green Haddoni is really nice! Not a color I have seen before.

I would love to get a Haddoni but fearful of it eating fish. Before my tank crash, I had a nice Magnifica that ate 4 or 5 fish over a few years, but I am afraid a Haddoni would be even worse. It’s a shame it’s so hard to find healthy Gigantea lately.

 

[OrionN]

It is hard to find them in Houston, and impossible to find them in Corpus. I got my new one send to me by @D-Nak from the CA Bay Area.

 

[OrionN]

My Desjardini is growing like weed. Soon he will be the largest fish in the tank. One of the biggest reason is he is a huge eater. Everyday his stomach is bulging at the end of the day.

 

[OrionN]

I went to San Antonio over the weekend and pick up a CB Regal Angel from one of my friend, @Claybird1985. Clayton named him Brian because he is living in a clam shell in my sump. It took him several days to get use to the light schedule. Clayton’s schedule is such that he have the tank light on at night. He and the fish tank sleep during the day.
Today, he finally adapted and is out and eating during the day. I got a few pictures of him and Bella this early evening.
Brian

Both

 

[GBRsouth]

My Desjardini is growing like weed. Soon he will be the largest fish in the tank. One of the biggest reason is he is a huge eater. Everyday his stomach is bulging at the end of the day.

With that "U" shaped under profile, I'm tipping this one is a she! Beautiful!

 

[alton]

Bella nor Brian has a tailspot?

 

[OrionN]

Beau had the false eye spot. Neither Brian or Bella have false eye spots. Both Brian and Bella have significant mis-bars

 

[OrionN]

My Ocellaris. It looks like the female start to have a large stomach. Laying soon I think.

 

[OrionN]

Two shades of Green

 

[OrionN]

Fighting for light, neither anemone want the other to expand into it’s space but I think the purple has upper hand here.