Video of my Four Foot Tank

Took a video yesterday, so here it is..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucpFwUN0yKY

wow thats really awesome, lovely colours

wow- nice tank deadsled !! it s looking great
so did you catch those fish mostly ? . i love the semi and the bicolor we collected these for our tank too ----- very cool .

Cheers Vawn.

Most of the fish are caught by other club members, from way back on my first snorkel trip. I however caught the blennys, the dragonet, the wrasse and some of the clowns. The Naso and Blue Tang, as well as the two Chromis and the dark blue / black dwarf angel are store bought.

The tank looks really nice deadsled,geez that local tang is huge now.

Interesting name you have on youtube

Haha, yeah i'm pretty stoked on how my tank looks. Definitely prefer it over the many rock wall / rock just tipped into the tank willy nilly look that a lot of others out there have going on.

As for my youtube name, i tried DeadSled but it could only be done if it had numbers cause it was already taken, and then i thought eh I have a Model A so i'll call myself MrModelA. At least that has no numbers so i don't forget it

Oh yeah, the Tang is getting bit and more colourful. Thats the reason i'm adding a 6ft and a 4ft sump to the system, so i can put 3/4 of my tangs into a bigger tank because they sometimes have little biffs in the four footer.

cool so ypu guys go out collectin these fish, how does that effect the local marine life? do you have any fish shaz? i glad you told me tocheck this cool tank out really opened my eyes

yeh vawn i knew you would love it a wee bit different to snakes and spiders !! he has a ... very cool set up / nice fish in the mix .

oh my partner and i collected for many years . i have been diving for 30 years now so have a tiny bit of experience !lol no tanks at the min all that went a few years back but still have a keen interest and would like to start another one up when i get back from my trip .

my fav fish is the pomacanthus semicirculatus angel fish which i believe are common where the boys dive ! and the( cleidopus gloriamaris) piineapple fish used to love watching him at night and latezonatus clown fish he was very sweet had such a personality and sadly died of white spot . oh when you come to oz oneday i will take you diving no worries !!you will get into it for sure

Cheers Shaz for the comment on my fish.

For what its worth, i'm VERY particular about what goes into my tanks.

i dunno much bout aquariums at all do you have to be careful bout which species you put together? i no you cannot mix frog species in the same terrarium but then if your fish are all from the same kinda ecology..., are they all local to your area?

DeadSled wrote:Cheers Shaz for the comment on my fish.

For what its worth, i'm VERY particular about what goes into my tanks.

yeh i can relate to that deadsled -its all good you can become very attached to your fish !! in the end ours all had pet names too lol
so have you had any issues over the time with white spot at all ? i know it is easy to sort , for us it was not the case ! we broke the cardinal rule once only !! did not quarantine , and lost the whole tank -was a huge lesson especially with our way sweet clown fish he had such a personality

I've never quarantined anything. Had white spot when i first got my blue tang, and when i introduced the eyestripe tang into the tank after it was caught. Just fed lots of algae sheet soaked in water and garlic and never had a problem.

My tangs have little biffs here and there, but i seem to have the perfect combination of fish because none of them ever actually fight each other.

Great looking video, nice tank, are all the fish native caught?

Pretty sure i mentioned above, not 100% though.. but all the fish are local caught except for the Blue Tang (which can be had locally anyway around one of the islands..), the Naso Tang (Also can be caught locally but only where the Blue Tangs are), the two Chromis, and the Pygmy Angel.

DeadSled wrote:I've never quarantined anything. Had white spot when i first got my blue tang, and when i introduced the eyestripe tang into the tank after it was caught. Just fed lots of algae sheet soaked in water and garlic and never had a problem.

My tangs have little biffs here and there, but i seem to have the perfect combination of fish because none of them ever actually fight each other.

excellent that you have not lost any fish . yes i have heard about the garlic /algae treatment of late. will def use if needed next time
i will still use a quarantine tank too . we used fresh water dip and a medic solution not good !!
i was checking out your video for a bit they seem to be in harmony, tangs can be territorial for sure ! we had one too - very pretty fish though.

Yes, for the most part my Tangs are all buddies. They occasionally do this thing where two of them (whether it be the Blue Tang, Naso or the Eyestripe, the Kole Tang sorta does its own thing..) will swim in circles around each other. I don't know what that is, but its neat to watch.

They don't fight or anything either, which is good. I think that is because of the types that i have though, they aren't all the same species of Surgeon.

I have had fish die in the past but not from white spot, at least not in the four foot. I did have trouble back when i first started, my 2ft tank was a never ending nightmare.. but haven't had any white spot deaths in the four foot before.