ORA arrived today including: Red Head Goby, Tiger Goby, Ultra Colored Maxima Clam, Gold Maxima Clam, Derasa Clam, Wooly Green Acropora, Blue Millepora, Indo Purple Tip Staghorn, Purple Acropora Nana, Red Planet Table Coral, Purple Tri-Color Valida, Purple Rim Capricornis, Green Birds Nest, Green Stylophora, Marshall Island Purple/Green, and Marshall Island Fuzzy Yellow/Green. Photos will be up late tonight or early tomorrow!
You’re killin me! I was going to stop in today and decided to wait. :BEER
Procrastinator
I already go there and waste hours of Charlies time blabbing!
Just got home - some wild looking stuff in stock. Going back tomorrow after I get paid - got my eye on a couple clams!!!
Do you guys ever get in the ORA aquacultured mandarins? I’d like to try one, but in a 20g it’s gonna have to take prepared foods.
I thought that I had heard there was like a 6 month or longer waiting list a month or so ago. Don’t believe they, or anyone local, has gotten them in yet.
Joe I thought you were looking for a low bio load option. While frog fish require fleshy high nutrient food they only need to be fed about 3 times a week. Mandarins should probably be fed three times a day if the only chance of food is through prepaired.
Too bad, it seems like a much better option than wild caught.
I think a mandarin is probably a lower bio-load than a frogfish, even with limited feedings. The mandarin would have the same opportunity for hunting pods as in any other system, but a fish that takes prepared foods would seem easier to keep in a small setup.
Might be a little lower bio load, but still would require a lot of feedings to live out a full life.
Wouldn’t be many pods left in such a small system.
Left after what? The system is a 20g display with a 55 gallon refugium, I’d guess that’s more pod proliferation area than most people’s setups. Do you really think that if this were the only fish in the tank that the population would be insufficient?
Massively depends. Might or might now work. What is your microfuana like in the other tanks? Lots of pods there? Isopods, amphipods, copepods, mysis shrimp, and ministars? How many different species of macro will you be using? Entire 55 going to be lit? What type of sand? I think it’s possible, but really depends.
Some much anticipated pictures from the recent ORA shipment:
We have some beautiful corals, clams, and fish in so make sure to stop on by and check them out before they are gone!
~DPA