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My Fish is now at University! (1 Viewer)

The transformation to being a male is progressing. The big bold black stripe has almost been replaced with two narrow stripes, and the streamers on the tail are developing further.

Also, I see the black stripes that sort of bordered the top and bottom of the tail have mostly disappeared now.

These are bad photos shot with my phone - this fish really moves fast!



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Thanks, Bill!
The angel looks like it has settled in very nice for you. I can tell that the fish must get lots of attention as it is eating very well and maintaining that wide body.
If it's at all possible, I'd like to attend the day that you move the fish into the large system.
 
Sounds cool, if you want to make the drive!

It is going to be at least 3 or 4 weeks still, probably. There are some aspects of the system I still want to have finished before I put fish and such in the big tank.

I'll move over some other fish first, and if all goes well with them then I'll move over this angelfish.
 
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Last night I was reading accounts of this species sometimes picking at (and killing) corals - makes me a little nervous (even if this fish doesn't do this, the plan is to get two females to be with him...). I'm thinking an automatic feeder for multiple supplemental feedings a day might be a good idea as a precaution.
 
capman said:
Last night I was reading accounts of this species sometimes picking at (and killing) corals -
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Did you read that in the internet??? ;)

I'm serious about stopping by when the transfer is going to happen.
I have a bunch of corals from my office tank waiting for you to bring over anyhow.
 
Discussions on Reef Central, etc, over the years - multiple folks talk about having a Lamark's angel start picking at corals (particularly LPS)... and also multiple folks report that they never had this happen.

Based on my observations of this fish from you though it is hard to imagine it picking at anything - it really mostly seems to just want to grab food thats drifting in the water.

Like I said, I need to get an automatic feeder on this tank so I can have multiple feedings a day, reliably, every day. I was planning on this anyway to try to promote spawning, but I imagine this might help reduce the chances of anyone picking at corals or giant clams.

I will coordinate the timing of the fish move with your availability. This will be fun.

Again, it will be a bit of time still - maybe a month out - since I want to have the system more complete first, and there are some critical things missing at the moment (e.g. still don't have an ATS on this system, still don't have heaters and temperature controllers, chillers are not hooked up, and I want to experiment with the calcium reactor before putting fish in the tank to make sure nothing wacky happens with it, etc, etc). And I need to focus on getting my students' summer research projects figured out first.
 
cheezybuda said:
I can get you a frag of the green hodgsoni.

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Wonderful!

I'll be in touch when I'm more ready for SPS corals (maybe a month or month and a half or so).
 
Hopefully someone in the area also still has that wonderful "red" hodgesoni that Jason used to have so much of. That, along with the green one, were my favorites of the plating Montiporas (though the various carpricornis types are great too, as well as that amazing lavender-purple one).
 
capman said:
Hopefully someone in the area also still has that wonderful "red" hodgesoni that Jason used to have so much of. That, along with the green one, were my favorites of the plating Montiporas (though the various carpricornis types are great too, as well as that amazing lavender-purple one).
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I know of a few sources for the red M. hodgsoni, so I think you're covered there; possibly the Idaho Grape also.
 
Incidentally, given all your experience with growing these plating Montiporas (as well as your artistic perspectives), I'm going to be interested in some brainstorming on coral placement in the big tank when you stop by for the angelfish move.
 
Look at who I got to see (and hold) today!!!

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I was able to stop by Augsburg University today while in between other projects to assist Bill in moving the Lamarck's Angelfish over to the new big tank.

It's hard to believe that it's been four months since the fish was moved to the university. I must say that the fish has been well taken care of by Bill and his "staff". The fish looks great and is very active; which it now has plenty of room for swimming around. Initially, the fish was stressed a little from the move, but it soon found a small cave for solace and was then started exploring the large tank. The two Zebrasoma spp. tangs made their introductions, but we're pretty sure we all know who's going to be ruling this tank.

Thanks, Bill @capman for allowing me to be a part of the big day.
 
Here's a FTS of the big system when Bill started to acclimate the angelfish for transfer.

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I'll see if I can recall all of the fish currently in the system; a pair of Pajama Cardinalfish, a pair of clownfish, a yellowtail damselfish, green chromis, a Yellow Tang and a Purple Tang; and now the Lamarck's Angelfish. Bill also has a large Banded Coral Shrimp, a few Peppermint Cleaner Shrimp, a red serpent sea star and a handful of captive-bred Tuxedo Urchins. Bill started moving some hardy soft corals into the tank to monitor their reaction to being added to a "newly" set up system. This project is definitely progressing forward; but there's still plenty of things that Bill would like to finish up soon.
 
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