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I'd like to trade Emperor angel. Raised him from baby, he's 6"now and started to eat bubble tip anemones and zoas.
I'm in Staten Island, Bayonne and Jersey City.
Find mentor
I highly recommend to find an experienced club member who is willing to mentor you in the
1. fish-tank and fish-area setup
2. plumbing
3. stocking principles (what & when can go into the tank).
Otherwise you'll waste tons of time and $$.
One common source of the wasted $$ is...
I really like this fish, and information on the web heated my interest. "Interesting colors, not shy, inquisitive."
I finally found one and put it into my semi-quarantine (separate area with shared water supply).
It started to eat frozen brine shrimp on 1st day, and in several days it ate...
I'm in Staten Island. Local Petco is sad (the way they keep their saltwater fish).
Local fish store guys seem nice, but, due to demand, prices are high and interesting fish/inverts move through very fast. No guarantees also (if fish that they just delivered yesterday dies next day , your loss).
'Funny' sale - before sale price of the fish (mystery wrasse) is $93, during the sale - about $125, and with %20 discount - same $93.
So, during the sale they just mark-up pre-discount price to make you think you are saving something. But in fact, prices do remain the same. Who would like to be...
I've ordered from them once about 3 years ago. Beginner's corals , xenia. they've also sent a bag of 'grunge' - some mud with allegedly all kinds of germs and micro fauna it in. At that time it worked great. Coralline growth was great. Plenty of small starfishes (not asterina).
Couple months...
Anyone tried to keep the purple tile fish?
I got one, beautiful fish, peaceful, did not see it eat, but when it adopted and started to come out in about 4 days, it had full belly. So it found some food.
I read that these like to jump. Well, apparently it jumped and hit its head on the LED...