Wobbegong and Morays?
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alprazo;5019652; said:
Sorry for the loss..
Wicked dedication! What size tank did you keep them in throughout the years? Did your feeding schedule remain very constant, or vary throughout years/weeks? When moving tank size did you notice different behavior with different dimensions or small/big tanks?
In 1994 a friend and I split the cost for the epaulette. It was $300 from That Fish Place in Lancaster PA. We had the grand idea that girls would want to come over to see it. It's name was Floyd.
I made every mistake in the book with that poor shark. It shows how resilient they truly are. The shark spent the first 7 years of its life in a 55g with a small wet-dry, drip plate, rolled floss and no skimmer. Deep sand bed bottom and no live rock. That is about all that would fit in my college room. It lived alone and was fed 2x per week except it the summer when it ate earthworms and live sand fleas (its favorite food).
One time I gave it scallop, only to find it two days later floating at the surface, bloated, and scarlet red. I gave it one dose of Cipro and by the next day it was back on the bottom and doing better. (I posted that story on the old rec marine newsgroups through dejanews if anyone was around for them - I think 1997) Anyway - in medschool the shark upgraded to a 125 where I added a ridiculously large powder blue grouper and huge niger trigger. Well, as you already know I turned on the lights one morning, the grouper spooked and slammed into the resting shark. The grouper was pan fried later that night because I was so upset. I never took a bite though. I feel bad now thinking about that.
The shark also live through a copper treatment for the fish, a power outage of 3 days - in the 55 gal, a temp drop to below 55 (that killed the trigger), summer water temps of 90 + because there was no AC, not to mention nitrates that were well above 200 ppm for years.
What torture - RIP.
I made every mistake in the book with that poor shark. It shows how resilient they truly are. The shark spent the first 7 years of its life in a 55g with a small wet-dry, drip plate, rolled floss and no skimmer. Deep sand bed bottom and no live rock. That is about all that would fit in my college room. It lived alone and was fed 2x per week except it the summer when it ate earthworms and live sand fleas (its favorite food).
One time I gave it scallop, only to find it two days later floating at the surface, bloated, and scarlet red. I gave it one dose of Cipro and by the next day it was back on the bottom and doing better. (I posted that story on the old rec marine newsgroups through dejanews if anyone was around for them - I think 1997) Anyway - in medschool the shark upgraded to a 125 where I added a ridiculously large powder blue grouper and huge niger trigger. Well, as you already know I turned on the lights one morning, the grouper spooked and slammed into the resting shark. The grouper was pan fried later that night because I was so upset. I never took a bite though. I feel bad now thinking about that.
The shark also live through a copper treatment for the fish, a power outage of 3 days - in the 55 gal, a temp drop to below 55 (that killed the trigger), summer water temps of 90 + because there was no AC, not to mention nitrates that were well above 200 ppm for years.
What torture - RIP.
i have had a wards wobbi [orectolobus wardi] since it was young, lives with two large green morays the wobbegong sits under a rock and waits for you to bring food to him, very placid shark, max size aprox 80cm. of the six species wards and the japanese wobbi are the only ones that dont grow over 1m .the spotted wobbi [orectolobus maculatus] grows to 10 feet, little bit big for a tankBsixxx;5103132; said:
