Reefkeeping is a paradox. We set up an aquarium to display all the wonderful diversity of the tropical oceans, only to be told that we can’t keep the vast majority of species in our tanks. I helped out in my LFS at the weekend and the following two species are the two that I was asked for the most, only for me to deliver the grim news that they couldn’t have them. And here’s why.
粉末蓝唐
粉末蓝调是令人惊叹的鱼类,总是在reofkeeper的想要名单上。他们有那种形状,颜色和模式,你永远不会与任何热带淡水鱼一起获得。他们看起来很可爱。
大问题是他们对Ich的易感性。他们非常容易发生cryptocaryon untritans.虽然零售商可以用铜,紫外线和其他治疗坦克在海湾保持它,但是在被引入新坦克后获得海洋白孔的粉末蓝唐的数量几乎是100%。
Once your fish has it, other fish in the tank may become infected with it and all the good, solid progress you’ve been making with your new reef tank will be ruined.
And when you have Ich you only really have three choices. Option 1 is to treat with a reef safe parasite treatment which by definition has to be mild so as not to harm other inverts in the tank. Option 2 is to catch the infected fish and place it in a hospital tank where you can use copper-based treatments to try and cure the Ich.
But that usually means removing all the rockwork to catch the fish, setting up a short term tank which itself may cause extra stress to the fish, and it also brings its own set of maturation problems because you’re placing a fish into a day-old tank.
Option 3 is to remove all inverts from the main tank and treat the whole system with a copper-based medication. You’ll have to pull the whole tank apart to do it though and you’ll lose all your microfauna too.
拟合紫外线灭菌器能够帮助减少自由游泳病原体数量,但我们太少的紫外线甚至太高,而且过高的流速在怀特素寄生虫上有效,并且许多紫外线所有者仍然签订疾病。
然后一旦你治愈了ICH,你将努力保持体重,让你的粉末蓝调和成年人可以朝着你想要介绍的任何其他唐人。选择一个Zebrasoma唐。
Emperor angelfish
每个人都想要一个皇帝天使。我想要一个皇帝(我实际上想要一个交配的一对,而是对这么多级别的选择是一个糟糕的选择。
首先与皇帝在完全成长时是他们的15英寸尺寸。这是一个大氨制作的机器,在任何坦克周围游泳,就食物和废物进入了什么,必须以硝酸盐和磷酸盐的形式出来。因此,如果您努力控制营养素,请不要选择Pomacanthus Imperator我不会推荐任何现成的珊瑚礁系统足够大。
They’re very active, adults can dwarf even a six-foot, 180-gallon tank, and when people ask me what size tank they need for an Emperor angelfish I tell them a 9x3x3’, 600-gallon aquarium. And I say it with a straight face.
Next is their territoriality. Emperor angels fall into the large angelfish category which means unless paired they are intolerant of their own kind and of other large angelfish species.
是的,如果你挤满了大型中美洲慈鲷,那么总是有例外,如果你挤满了他们的全部少年,或者一下子,大型神仙鱼“社区”有时会起作用。成年天使可以花费三个数字总和,即使是SIMPIS天使的四个数字,所以试图混合它们可能意味着在比一个人更多样的方式错误。
最后,皇帝神仙鱼不是安全的。他们将用尽你所有的肉质LPS珊瑚tachyphyllia.,Symphyllia,和Acanthophyllia. They can turn on Zoas, Duncan’s, Gorgonians, and if you have a reef tank with perfect parameters, an Emperor angelfish, but corals stop opening, its because the Emperor is picking at them.
SPS-only reefs are the safest for Emperor angels to cohabit but again that’s a lot of food going into what should be a low nutrient system. And to top it all, Emperors are prone to Ich too…