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#1
11/01/2004, 05:49 AM
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Corals and polyps for a Butterfly/Dwarf Angel Smorgasboard?
Will this work?
I am setting up what I hope to be a Butterfly/Dwarf Angel Smorgasboard- a tank dedicated to providing as much in the way of "real" food as possible. I know that these fish will eat everything they can find- but I am hoping that getting the tank going with some corals and polyps long before I add any fish will help to keep them sustainable. My question is whether there are any species of softies or LPS not suitable as food? Should I avoid Palythoas or do fishes have mechanisms to deal with ingesting these? Leathers? I am hoping to not have to buy anything specifically to be devoured, but I probably will. Most of the corals will come as frags from my reef tank. I was hoping to get a wild population of say yellow polyps, green star polyps, zo's, ricordias, maybe some Euphyllias, mushrooms plain and fuzzy, anthelia- anything low light and spreading. Does this sound like a plan? Grow this stuff for 6-8-10 months before adding the Butterfly's should be good? No specific Butterfly species chosen of yet- leaning towards Chaetodon ulietensis so I can have multiples.
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#2
11/02/2004, 10:27 AM
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So lemme put it this way...
Which corals and inverts do your Butterfly's and/or Dwarf Angels love to eat the most?
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11/02/2004, 12:01 PM
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That sounds like a cool idea but wouldn't the tank have to be huge to sustain the polyps? I had a large hermit that devoured my tank of feather dusters in one night. I wonder how the butterflys would do? Still interesting indeed.
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11/02/2004, 12:18 PM
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I don't see how you could sustain that food source in a home aquarium. Maybe if you had corals in a straight reef tank that you fraged on occasion as a treat for your butterflies/Angels, but if you put coral colonies in your main tank I would imagine they would be decimated before they actually prodcued new polyps.
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#5
11/02/2004, 12:26 PM
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So maybe they won't be indefinitely sustainable, but I can try.
I am giving them six months to get established, so maybe one or two will hide in a nook or cranny for a bit? I'm more than willing to keep fragging and buying them. What species would they like the best?
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