当我们开始新的一年,并盘点礁石建筑商工作室的发展时,我们对珊瑚人的成长感到非常满意,但我们肯定在鱼类部门很亮。在整个16个展示中,可能有大约1000个珊瑚,但我们仅计算了“只有130种不同尺寸的鱼类。一百只鱼听起来很多,但是我们还有更多的空间,所以我们开始了一系列稀有和常见的鱼,我们希望在录音室里游泳。
But before we go and place orders for most of the fish we want, we did some reflecting on our fish acquisition experiences over the last two years to identify which fish have lasted, those that haven’t, and for the fish that we are currently enjoying it wasn’t always smooth sailing for each one. Just because we have the setup and the knowledge to properly condition and quarantine marine fish, that doesn’t take away from the effort involved and it’s not always a sure thing.
当我们收到新鲜的野生鱼时,我们总是会在日常的鱼类观看中感到某种程度的“破坏” - 有时候非常令人兴奋,但有时这确实很紧张!考虑到这一观察结果,我们决定确定收藏中哪种鱼是最愉快的,为什么。事实证明,我们最喜欢的三条鱼,异常的dottyback,彩虹basslet和我们的小叮当的蝴蝶鱼都从必威官网登录随行版TSM Aquatics.
It’s no coincidence that these fish have thrived at the Reef Builders Studio because TSM really goes the distance to provide robust marine fish, thoroughly quarantined and voracious consumers of prepared aquarium foods. Abby the ‘aberrant’ dottyback was the first fish in the Reef Builders Studio and it’s still here, enjoying aquarium life more than two and half years later.
We got this dottyback before we had any supporting equipment to setup a quarantine tank or system and thisPictichromiswas our first experience with fish from TSM Aquatics. At first we thought these kinds of dottybacks were simply aberrant but over time we’ve come to believe that these are most likely a hybrid betweenPictichromis diadema和P. porphyrea.
一半一半的紫色和黄色颜色看ms to be a logical blend of the mostly yellow, purple cap dottyback and the solid purple dottyback. Regardless of its pedigree, our unusual dottyback has been a very fun fish to keep and watch and we are very glad to still have the founding member of our fish population at the Studio.
丁克里蝴蝶鱼是我们在十几必威官网登录随行版岁的水族馆时在九十年代中期学到的第一批所谓的稀有和异国情调的鱼之一。在我们的脑海中,这种标志性的黑白礁鱼从夏威夷的深水中总是象征着一种异国情调的盐水鱼,所以我们很高兴收到一对Chaetodon Tinkerito kick off our collection of showy fish. Being a somewhat more demanding fish we didn’t want to take the risk of acclimating or pairing this fish up ourselves but were stoked to receive these two butterflyfish from TSM Aq1uatics.
We started this pair in a six foot reef tank and while they did very well, they did eventually start picking at some of the fleshier corals, resulting in their relocation to the fish only aquarium. Butterflyfish are notorious for being harder to feed in aquarium settings but while these two Tinkers initially only preferred frozen foods such as mysis and brine shrimp, they quickly took to eating pellets which they now consume with gusto.
彩虹basslet species that we’ve long had a soft spot for. Our first initiation with species in the烯烃genus was with the Caribbean wrasse bass but the East Pacific rainbow basslet is arguably more attractive and colorful. While they are initially shy, given some time and a proper environment these fish become very bold and are quite personable and very inquisitive. We kept the rainbow basslet in a large reef tank for a long while but opted to relocate it to the main fish-only display so that its rainbow of colors could be more easily enjoyed in the broad spectrum lighting of the fish aquarium.
尽管我们确实有自己的隔离和调理系统,但在早期并不总是如此,其他时候,我们已经在QT中有一组“”鱼类,我们不想中断。在每种情况下,我们对TSM水上运动都有绝对的信念,可以彻底隔离他们提供的鱼类,因为我们知道这不仅仅是经历最基本的隔离的动作。
最基本的盐水鱼会隔离盐水,由抗寄生虫的铜溶液组成,以应对最常见的鱼类疾病,但这种治疗方法充其量是基本的,非常容易犯错。一些较大的更艳丽的鱼类(例如,神仙鱼和蝴蝶鱼通常都含有对水中铜无关的氟),而低水平的细菌感染可能会持续很长时间,然必威官网登录随行版后再危及生命。
What we really appreciate and respect about TSM Aquatics is that they核实他们的鱼类的健康不仅是通过剧烈的视觉检查,而且还通过训练有素的专业人员在显微镜下对鱼刮擦进行检查。Far too many fish stores rely on their customers ‘dump and hope’ approach to adding fish to their aquariums and if you have to replace a fish even once, you might as well pay a higher price for a higher quality fish with a certified bill of health in the first place.
The aquarium hobby is already under close scrutiny for how many fish are harvested from wild reefs, so the more we treasure and nurture every fish we bring into our homes, the fewer fish will have to be removed from the natural environment.