[trick440]

I'm new to the hobby. Was wondering if anyone wanted to donate some frags or anything to me?

I'm broke after buying all this stuff. My tank is small only 30gal, with 96w of 50/50 lgt.

I currently have a Hatite(sp?) annemetie(sp), a rock with some mushrooms on it, a Leather and about 42 lbs. of live rock. Oh ya and 1 fish, a Cowfish... its called a scrowled fish or something, its green with blue dots.

My tanks about 3 months old, and everything is growing very well. I haven't killed anything!! Woo whoo... So if anyone did wanna give away or sell anything for cheap I will take great care of it.

I'm in the Lake Orion, Oxford area. But go to Lapear, and N. Detroit area alot too. Thanks.

If you wanna trade for a frag of my mushrooms, I'd do that, they are just red ones, and some have dots of either green or white. Granted I don't know how to frag mushrroms yet, but I been reading a lil about it. Just to new and scared, I wanna keep my record at zero kills.

 

[sean]

sent you a pm.

 

[greenb]

No frags to donate. But if you have an idea what your looking for ask. You'll find someone on here with a frag or 2 to sell cheap.

Not sure how much you've read about cow fish. But I think you should at least know how big will a cowfish get.

Long-horned cowfish can reach 20 inches in the wild. They usually remain around 12 inches in captivity. Scrawled and Honeycomb cowfish are only a little bit smaller, reaching about 18 inches in the wild, and probably around 10 inches in captivity. The smaller cowfish species, Thornback and Hovercraft, grow to about only 6 inches.

How fast will cowfish grow?
Within its first year of life, Long-horned cowfish can grow up to 8 to 10 inches. Their growth rate slows down signifantly after that. The second year, the Long-horned may grow only another 2 inches. Growth rate is negligible thereafter. The Scrawled cowfish will reach up to 6 inches its first year of life. It will probably grow only another inch or two within its second year. Like the Long-horned, the growth after the second year is barely noticeable.

They also have the ability to release ostracitoxin, a poison that can kill all tank inhabitants.

So in other words you may not be able to keep him for long in a 30g tank.

Hope this helps
Bob

 

[sean]

they also arent reef safe, i forget if its corals or inverts that they bother...

 

[trick440]

Lol, ya I did't know much about the cowfishes till I bought them. But I'm learning alot.

I wasn't sure if I like this hobby I was always more into reptiles, geckos, painted mantella, ect. This is actually my first fish setup ever. I do really like it. I have an 85 and 65 gal aquarium just sitting around, So I have a few options if the Scrawled starts getting to big.

I know I will need to upgrade eventually. I really want a tank with an assortment or corals, 2 manderins, 1 scrawled fish, and 1 other fish.. possible a valintine puffer... if he dont hurt corals. So thats my goal. (probably like a 2 yr goal but...)

As far as what frags I would be interested in I really have no idea. I have only had decent lighting for about 3 weeks. So I guess I'm looking for stuff that can live with 3.3w per gallon of light w/ med. current.

Theres just so much crazy saltwater stuff out there. I don't even know the difference between soft corals, hard corals, clams, mushrooms, pulps, SPS, .. heck I dont even know what a pulp is! heh..

 

[trick440]

hrm.. ya I'm still learning about reef safe fish too.. Its all up in the air I guess, I also like the Nusu tang, and niger triggers.. I really dont know what I want yet, but i like corals more than fish.

 

[greenb]

hehe,, do some reading before you buy a tang or a trigger!!

 

[ofblong]

you may want to be careful about using an aquarium that one time housed reptiles. Most of the time a tank that housed reptiles will kill everything you add to that aquarium(meaning fish you add).