Tropheus Moorii Ilangi

[cichlid1409]

[eklikewhoa]

Donald, I'm running the coralife aqualight pro which is 3x150w + 4x96pc

[eklikewhoa]

You guys are hilarious...

[cichlid1409]

you have to get 20,000 posts for god status
but..... http://www.bible-history.com/past/dagon.html

[eklikewhoa]

Some feeding vids... water is murky though, was fiddling with the sump and replaced a few pads without turning it off.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v629/eklikewhoa/tropheus/?action=view&current=MVI_8317.flv

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v629/eklikewhoa/tropheus/?action=view&current=MVI_8318.flv

[cichlid1409]

not working for me.....?

[zephard]

Me neither, working that is not.

[eklikewhoa]

Dang, that sucks... I saw the little photobucket/youtube icon or tag insert deal in the reply box and figured "neat".

Let me fix it.

[cichlid1409]

man those guys are ferocious !!! my kachese are a little more timid guess you need to be the first one to the food when theres 40+ mouths trying to eat.

[eklikewhoa]

At first I thought this was how they all ate.... after seeing how shy a lot of others trophs are and how most don't go near the top of the tank I think it's something else now.

Every colony I have had did this.

[jeebus]

Hey OGD, I've got some technical questions for you:

1. How long do you keep your lights on everyday?
2. How many feedings and how much per feeding?
3. How much water is lost with open-tops/MH lights per day?
4. Did your friends flake on the Tunze yet?

Tank looks disgustingly green (with envy) nice btw.

[cichlid1409]

At first I thought this was how they all ate.... after seeing how shy a lot of others trophs are and how most don't go near the top of the tank I think it's something else now.

Every colony I have had did this.

something else ...like what?

[eklikewhoa]

Hey OGD, I've got some technical questions for you:

1. How long do you keep your lights on everyday?
2. How many feedings and how much per feeding?
3. How much water is lost with open-tops/MH lights per day?
4. Did your friends flake on the Tunze yet?

Tank looks disgustingly green (with envy) nice btw.

1. I keep them on for about 9hrs a day which gives me viewing time when I get home from work in the morning and before I go to work in the evening. Now on the weekends I tend to leave it on longer.

2. I am feeding 12x a day and about 1/3 a level tsp. Slowly cutting back on the feedings cause I might be going on vacation for a week or two and plan to barely feed them during that time. Before I was feeding 20x a day and still occassionally throwing strips of Nori or PE Mysis shrimp in the tank.

3. Hmmm... between the open tops, MH, surface agitation, wet/dry and cooling fan I lose maybe a gallon at most a day. I keep the house about 70-73 which helps a great deal. This is really nothing for what's on the tank, my 30g reef tank would lose about 5g a week.

4. No but he just came back from Paris and I'm positive he's gonna pick it up. If not I will let you know but I wouldn't hold my breath.


Yeah the algae is a bit in the tank but I tried to grow it lush on the back wall to kinda "soften" the black background cause it's killing the Ilangi's colors but the blue is an eyesore. I don't scrape the back at all and it's growing uneven and the algae on the rocks I think gives it a nice look.

[eklikewhoa]

something else ...like what?

I meant I took in the way they ate as the norm but now I see through everyone else's troph's feeding behaviour it has to be effected by other influences, possibly surroundings or comfort level.

[imagirlgeek]

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