Tobacco basslet and Eggcrate

[Mushroomman]

Picked up this guy the other day, tobacco basslet. Something out of the ordinary, and reefsafe, though I hear they might eat anything that can fit in their mouths fish or shrimp wise. Still a bit skitish, cant snap a decent photo showing his true patterns and colors. This fish can jump, I double checked and made sure he cant get out.

Oh... and I picked up some eggcrate and fit it to the top of my tank after seeing people mention it

 

[KahluaZzZ]

Yeah your marlborofish is an aggressive specie...pretty cool fish !
It can become huge

 

[kevin4052002]

Pretty cool..not too many orange fish out there.

 

[Mushroomman]

Im hoping it gains some size, would be interesting. From what Ive heard and seen, 5-7 inches is common

Yeah, its a nice orange too.

 

[1979camaro]

very cool find MM

 

[OCCFan023]

very interesting colored fish. Egg crate was a good saftey add too! Should be interesting to see how he grows

 

[Panther28]

Nice fish. Where did you get the crate from. I have been looking for it for the past week but i guess not good enough. Need make a tank divider!

 

[Mushroomman]

Thanks guys. That eggcrate lets so much more light through its crazy.

Panther, the eggcrate I picked up at Home Depot, took me forever to find it, didnt know where itd be), turns out its also called "lighting panels", so the lighting section of a hardware store would carry it.

 

[Panther28]

Panther, the eggcrate I picked up at Home Depot, took me forever to find it, didnt know where itd be), turns out its also called "lighting panels", so the lighting section of a hardware store would carry it.

Thanks for the info. I had looked in homedepot before but in the wrong department. now i know where to look. Thanks again.

 

[amd]

y hardware store" lowes" has it in the ply wood section

 

[Mushroomman]

Lowes is basically a hardware store isnt it... would work equally well.

 

[Mushroomman]

Update- I was downstairs doing something and I looked into the tank, noticed the basslet floating around getting attacked by the clarkii clown.... took it out and put it in a bucket with a heater, looks to be alive but really torn up.... see what happens. Damn clown just tears through anything smaller than itself.

EDIT- fish is dead, just checked. Oh well so much for 18 bucks. If that clown kills another fish Im removing it, its kill count is at least 2 that I know of.

 

[Panther28]

ohh Sorry to hear about the basslet and the 18 bucks too. Well it was meant to happen.

 

[OCCFan023]

thats rough man, I knew that clarkis could be aggressive but not that overly aggressive towarda a basslet (I would think they would stick to more of there own species but I guess I was wrong)

what was the other fish he did in?

 

[Mushroomman]

Yeah, this guy really is a little devil... 2 fish in a 55 gallon tank Id just like to add another one or 2

Other fish he killed was a purple firefish in the old tank (which was added long before clown was).

 

[fish outa wata]

You might have to get him his own tank either at your house or at the lfs.

 

[Mushroomman]

Yeah good idea... I was thinking of removing him from the tank then after a while, when all fish are added, add him back, the theory being that he wont be able to pick on the fish because they will be established and none will be alone and stressed to be singled out.... going to see if it works. If not, hes living alone.

 

[OCCFan023]

wasnt there a fish in the tank when you added him that he had some issues with?

 

[Mushroomman]

Yeah, think it was the firefish. He gets along great with the coral beauty, but I reckon thats due to the fact that fish is pretty badass too ha, but at least its not really bad towards other fish.