Finally!!!!

[White Lightning]

I completely overlooked the lion. My money is on the lion eating the feeders. Tyler is right, feeder fish are not the greatest choice for feeding aggressive saltwater fish. You run the risk of bringing in disease that could potentially harm your fish. In addition they do not have any nutrional value that your fish ned. It would be like a human eating day old MacDonalds everyday. There is a great thread on reef central about feeder goldfish and why they should not be used to feed saltwater fish.

Mind you, I fed mine feeders for about three months before he finally learned to accept frozen food like silversides and krill. Now he'll eat pretty much anything I put in the tank. Very nice looking fu man chu BTW.

[Tyler.L]

its basically like them eating fat and there liver cant take it and will die..its basically like poisoning them

[omarh]

lion and hawk are eating frozen just fine, it's the eel that is bothering me.
i know this sounds kinda silly but i'm assuimg the eel is eating the feeders because because i place them right behind his home and the lionfish is in plain sight. i dont see th elion eating them but they are gone........i'm trying my best to get him to eat his frozen foods, i wiggles the food in front of his home etc.... but no luck with that.

[Tyler.L]

they only eat about once a week maybe twice so dont try to over feed him....dont give him anything for a week and then try the food on a stick and see how that goes

[omarh]

little update......last week the eel started eating the frozen krill off my feeding stick without any problems! i guess the little bit of starvation/acclimation to his new home was what he needed!!!

[Hookup]

Nice!  I know how good that feels when they start eating....  My Achlies Tang is eating well, was about two weeks of him only eating greens... But I'm still not convinced he's in the clear... I holding my breath until he's been here for at least a year...

Gratz!  Takes a good deal of patience in this hobby, the rewards are there!

[omarh]

know it's been a while since i've update the thread but here's two picture of the finished product.......just yesterday i finished staining and varathaning my hood and side panels.

hood has a 6bulb retrofit.

i als o included a pic of my blonde naso and sail fin tang....added those about a month ago or so.........can also see a cleaner in the background....did my best with a cellphone pic.


i'll post more pictures later with coral etc...

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[White Lightning]

Looks good Omar. How is the new eel doing?

[Hookup]

this looks very nice.  Got some FTS of reef/rock work?