Where the wild things roam...

[cam191919]

my 46 bowfront predator tank

current stock:
dwarf fuzzy lionfish
2 fringed filefish
mushroom scorpionfish
bandtooth conger eel
raccoon butterfly fish

dwarf fuzzy lionfish



raccoon butterfly, hes fast so pics were hard to get





one of the filefish, the other is smaller and hides a lot



mushroom scorp



FTS

 

[cam191919]

heres one of the eel, hes a good nine inches long

 

[Ace25]

Very cool.. sounded overstocked from the description but the pics say otherwise. I love the natural seaweed you have going. Great looking tank!

 

[clb2196]

Awesome tank. my dad used to have a racoon butterfly, one of my favorites. A really cool assortment of fish, overall, definitely different!

 

[TropicalNorth]

Really great tank, its so different. It reminds me of a place I dive where seaweed grows near/on a rocky area and then a little deeper out is reef.

I keep butterflyfish, I've found them to be really friendly fellas and definitely a must for a FOWLR tank. Nice raccoon.

 

[b19fish]

Very awesome tank i was wondering how hard is it to keep the mushroom scorpionfish and what do you feed it ?

 

[cam191919]

thanks everybody! the mushroom scorp eats live shrimp, silverside bits and scallops, hes pretty active for a "rock"

the butterfly is my newest fish, hes one of the healthiest looking fish iv ever bought

as for the seaweed i like the look but it always gets weighed down with detritus, i put it all in another tank so i can do some cleaning. is there any hardcore detritivores out there because it has a habit of piling up in this tank...?

 

[cam191919]

made a mistake yesterday, i bought a lunar wrasse in a time of "weakness" which i suppose i didnt realize got too big for my tank:flamed:

apparently i need to do more reaserch on a good wrasse for my tank, but no regrets. its a great little fish and if i could find an awesome home for my two occ. clowns on CL then im sure a ill find a nice big tank for him as well when he gets too big

 

[Ace25]

Too big AND too mean for your tank. Those things, for the most part, are extremely aggressive. No snail, crab, or shrimp have a chance of living with a Lunar in the tank. The juviniles are much more tame than the adults.. but they just get meaner and bigger every day you have it. I do think they are very nice looking fish though, love the coloring and pattern on them.

 

[cam191919]

well for now hes content with swimming like crazy but ill keep watch for aggression, is their any wrasse species that would work?