Barramundi - Seafood Market Rescue
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Happy Mother's Day *breakfast update * filefish + barra feeding on shrimp.
About 3 wks or so since I added tankmates & everyone is doing great. Filefish just hangs out from sunrise to about 6:30pm and then hides ina rock or in the corner by the filters. Barra has started to make daytime his rest hours and likes to stay up at night watching TV then goes to sleep after his midnite shrimp snack. He'll accept feeding in the morning but then will usually go hide behind the rock or in his fav spot on the bottom of the tank. There's a feather duster that's become used to the barra as usually feather dusters will hide whenever they feel something near, but now the barra's tail bumping into it is just part of the norm.
Also not many people talk about the vocals of barramundi, they're super loud! They make snapping, echo sounding clapping sounds when they snap their jaws and I can literally hear it even when I'm upstairs. When he snaps & I'm just hanging out it sometimes gets annoying and i just feed him to make him shut up.
The condy anemone has taken over the blenny cave after a water change and the blenny now hides on the right side of the cave or in a different cave in the middle of the tank, but faces the back of the tank where all the invertebrates stay. Thinking of Blenny #2 and possibly a small puffer or boxfish. Since the filefish only 3" barely has made it this long, it's safe to say YES you can add small fish with barra but selection is only down to maybe a very short list of possible smaller tankmates. I've read that some fish may be immuned to the toxin of puffer's so maybe we can try..
About 3 wks or so since I added tankmates & everyone is doing great. Filefish just hangs out from sunrise to about 6:30pm and then hides ina rock or in the corner by the filters. Barra has started to make daytime his rest hours and likes to stay up at night watching TV then goes to sleep after his midnite shrimp snack. He'll accept feeding in the morning but then will usually go hide behind the rock or in his fav spot on the bottom of the tank. There's a feather duster that's become used to the barra as usually feather dusters will hide whenever they feel something near, but now the barra's tail bumping into it is just part of the norm.
Also not many people talk about the vocals of barramundi, they're super loud! They make snapping, echo sounding clapping sounds when they snap their jaws and I can literally hear it even when I'm upstairs. When he snaps & I'm just hanging out it sometimes gets annoying and i just feed him to make him shut up.
The condy anemone has taken over the blenny cave after a water change and the blenny now hides on the right side of the cave or in a different cave in the middle of the tank, but faces the back of the tank where all the invertebrates stay. Thinking of Blenny #2 and possibly a small puffer or boxfish. Since the filefish only 3" barely has made it this long, it's safe to say YES you can add small fish with barra but selection is only down to maybe a very short list of possible smaller tankmates. I've read that some fish may be immuned to the toxin of puffer's so maybe we can try..
Getting more courage everyday, blenny is out & about while the barra pays no attention!
*will dart back to a rock asap when it does -
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& found an old MFK decal looks good with Filefish + Barra now 22"! -
No new tank mates since the addition of the blenny but i tried adding a live prawn from the market & prob was too injured so froze it & just fed it to the tank
*market selection -
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*will dart back to a rock asap when it does -
Blenny, Filefish, & Barramundi
& found an old MFK decal looks good with Filefish + Barra now 22"! -
No new tank mates since the addition of the blenny but i tried adding a live prawn from the market & prob was too injured so froze it & just fed it to the tank
*market selection -
Fish market in Denver
Blenny & Filefish vs Leftover Shrimp from Barra snacks
Ayyy 10 month update for the BARRA! Next week will be 10 month anniversary & just updating since I removed his aquascape a week and a half ago.
Check out a feeding session from when my mom & step dad came by - https://youtube.com/shorts/usJDgmm7YGs?si=5C6stT9qj3-MyIlr
Sorry for pics with the red algae on the glass but from the 80lbs. of live rock I removed like 65lbs and just have a couple small rocks to keep a little aesthetic. He's kinda pissed off & he hasn't eaten in about 5-6 days and has a little bruising on his left side. First pic was from a few days ago when I noticed & 2nd pic is this morning. You can see the blood vessels in his scales getting healed but just weird he's always hungry & hasn't eaten for a few days.
He's still healthy swimming at the top & still reacts to movement but when I put in a shrimp he just runs away. Hope he doesn't think he's getting removed from the tank! His filefish friend was rehomed a few months ago to a friend's new reef + blenny just hides & makes an appearance a few times a week. Probably no more tank mates as planned other than some snails coming soon or until we can get him into a 240g.
Check out a feeding session from when my mom & step dad came by - https://youtube.com/shorts/usJDgmm7YGs?si=5C6stT9qj3-MyIlr
Sorry for pics with the red algae on the glass but from the 80lbs. of live rock I removed like 65lbs and just have a couple small rocks to keep a little aesthetic. He's kinda pissed off & he hasn't eaten in about 5-6 days and has a little bruising on his left side. First pic was from a few days ago when I noticed & 2nd pic is this morning. You can see the blood vessels in his scales getting healed but just weird he's always hungry & hasn't eaten for a few days.
He's still healthy swimming at the top & still reacts to movement but when I put in a shrimp he just runs away. Hope he doesn't think he's getting removed from the tank! His filefish friend was rehomed a few months ago to a friend's new reef + blenny just hides & makes an appearance a few times a week. Probably no more tank mates as planned other than some snails coming soon or until we can get him into a 240g.
Maybe like 5.5-6 lbs now! he was 1.9lbs on day 1, could be bigger but he'll never reach potential in the 150g. Filefish is cool just decided to take him out and donate to a reef tank but I can't catch the blenny so he's in here still. They were good buds though barra left him alone but i could still notice fear in the filefish. Hoping barra will eat soon though just not the blenny!
Finally 2nd attempt today he ate but he's very weak. Slowly chomping on 1 shrimp Instead of demolishing.
Seemed like he forced himself to eat. He'll be alright!
