Over the weekend while helping my mom set up her 40 gallon planted tank, we were bounching ideas back and forth, and I pretty much haved decided to theme my tank a fijian reef. yeah I know most of the fish and corals and all of that are not endemic to fiji but found through out the whole indo-pacific. I am thinking I will put a dwarf flame angel, some purple firefish, and a bicolor blenny in the tank. eventually I will decide on the corals to go with them.
the other thing I have been thinking about it is: So next month my company is expanding across the hall and I am getting my own office. being that I work as a geologist for a water rights firm we should have some water in the office. I am thinking of setting up either a 29g old tank that I have that I would have to reclaim from my dads turtles or get 24g aquapod, and setting up a fish only with
live rock with mandarin in it. I know mandarins are agressive to conspecifics, do you think they would be agressive to bi-color blennys? and in talking to one of my co-workers she says I should put a clown fish in there as well. will they compete with the mandarin?
Does any one out there keep feather stars or crinoids? the books I have read about them say they are fairly hard to keep in the tank cause of thier filter feeding requirments. my degree is in paleontology so I have a fondness for paleozoic oddities that are still around like crinoids and braciopods. When I was scuba diving in belize we went to a place called tunicate cove where there was the most beautiful tunicates and in the corals around the embayment there were the most lovely orange crinoids. They had to drag me out of the water and back on to the boat. Do any of you out there have experience keeping them?
