Improving Saltwater Fish Care with Marine Collectors

Improving Saltwater Fish Care with Marine Collectors | Tidal Gardens Podcast Ep 7

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In this Tidal Gardens Podcast episode, we talk with Elliot Lim from Marine Collectors about a variety of topics related to reef fish. Although we are focused on coral farming, we are trying to improve the husbandry of all the animals we bring in, especially our fish that do critical jobs in the reef tanks.
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0:00 - Introduction
2:16 - Utilitarian Fish
3:25 - Copperband Butterfly Fish
6:45 - Too Much Food?
8:41 - Anthias: Difficult or Not?
9:14 - Easiest Anthias Types
16:58 - Square Block Anthias
19:59 - Rhomboid Fairy Wrasse
20:48 - Utilitarian Wrasses
21:19 - Leopards and Possums
21:48 - Methylene Blue
25:55 - Mandarin Dragonettes
29:29 - Mysterious Ailments
36:00 - Flashing Tile Fish
37:27 - Oreni Tile Fish
38:10 - Anchovy Tank?
39:22 - Schooling Behavior
41:39 - Food Scarcity and Fish Aggression
44:00 - Rinsing Frozen Foods
47:38 - Favorite Foods: Mysis, Clams, Nori
49:44 - Feeding Nori
51:12 - Masstick Feeding

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@AlsFishBarn Ай бұрын

Elliot!! We NEED a tour of your tanks! Please 😆

@willlowe90 5 сағат бұрын

Great video, I appreciate the open dialogue and learned some things I hadn’t previously known. Thanks!

@sanpietroprogettista9887 Ай бұрын

All my fish came from Elliot, 1yr in no problems. Happy and healthy!

@cory5386 Ай бұрын

We are very lucky to have Elliot in our hobby. He helped save an unknown bacterial infection in the mouth of my fiancees valentini puffer. Also, the talk on purple queens was awesome. I have a single purple queen that definitely took alot of effort in the beginning but now is doing fantastic, the work pays off. Keep up the great work Elliot. Thank you for all that you do

@cegentry Ай бұрын

Been in this hobby for a very very long time. Actually somewhat bored at the moment. Fish are what got me in back in the mid eighties. Hearing Elliot talk about these super difficult species really gets me excited! For what it is worth ELLIOTS FISH ARE TOP NOTCH!!!

@aactv3223 Ай бұрын

Great podcast . Interesting regarding the black out on CB’flys - I was recently recommended to avoid LED spotting from commercial light bars especially above CBs in QT ( even low wattage ) causing confusion in the water column when feeding .

@jlgarcia3700 Ай бұрын

Great interview!! Thank you both!

@jsul2211 Ай бұрын

Love these talks about fish bc i feel the care of the fish that care for our tanks is so important

@leemont909 Ай бұрын

elliot is always great

@edwardownen Ай бұрын

I wish we would have talked about Copperbands at Aquashella! The secret to Copperbands seems to be getting them to eat with frozen clams from the asian market. I got this method from another channel on youtube (reefdudes, I think) Once they start eating it seems like they'll shift to mysis without any issue.

@alexpellman8637 Ай бұрын

Great podcast! I could listen to Elliot talk about fish for hours!

@stevewallace9330 Ай бұрын

I bought 5 fish from Marine Collectors. All were quarantined there. All have been very healthy including a Copperband that ate mysis the second day. Thanks Elliot!

@Dan-tb1zf Ай бұрын

Truly awesome video. Thanks Than and Elliot. Did Elliot mention the dosage and duration for methelyene blue? I went back and found where he says its been a game changer but didn't hear how he uses it. It's so nice to see people who actually care about the individual fish needs and about it surviving. This hobby is brutal on these living animals.

@shirtdirt1874 Ай бұрын

These are always great.

@fishcollecting9149 Ай бұрын

Hi my experience with hard to feed copper bands is feed them mussels,,its what i do when i collect them from the wild ,,get your mussel ,,using a screw driver flat head and hammer smash a long split in the shell of the mussel so the copper bands long snout can get in so other tank mates cannot eat it all or a larger split and attach it to a nori clamp,, either way you will see they love the mussels ..try it and see happy reefing

@ajsaracina8380 Ай бұрын

Loving these podcasts! It was great to hear about some fish specifics, and interesting how some of his best practices seem almost opposed to coral keeping practices

@formallydehyde 10 күн бұрын

Didn't Jay Hemdal and others do a controlled study where most cases of head & lateral line erosion (HLLE) were traced back to certain types of activated carbon? If I'm remembering the results right, the worst for causing HLLE was carbon derived from plant sources, coal derived carbon was slightly better, pelletized coal derived activated carbon caused way less than the previous two and when it did the cases were mild. The best condition was no activated carbon where no fish got it. The speculated reason that microscopic carbon particles were getting lodged in the sensitive lateral line tissue and causing damage, and certain forms of carbon either let off more fine particulates and/or released them in shapes/sizes that were more damaging. IF essentially all HLLE is caused by carbon dust then I wonder if miracle mud either acts as a flocculant or maybe the microbes in it form a biofilm over the carbon and glue small surface particles down.

@AlicksSmith Ай бұрын

The BRS chromis/grouper tank explained.

@franklinwest2090 Ай бұрын

Amazing interview Than!!

@McGD4 Ай бұрын

I agree clownfish r more aggressive then damsels My 2 damsels r so calm and chill

@PlanktonMarin Ай бұрын

Oh so it’s NOT about the medication or the strict process… it’s the miracle mud! Easy 😎

@Tohei08 Ай бұрын

What is Elliot's opinion on Safety Stop? There's formalin in safety stop, but I'm hesitant on using actual formalin due to the carcinogenetic properties.... Would safety stop fall somewhere into the 80/20 method of fish qt? Or am I wasting money on safety stop?

@saucytabasco Ай бұрын

I cant speak for elliot but safety stop is methylene blue with formalin. The problem has been, they wont provide the MSDS/formalin %, so without that its hard to guage the efficacy of it to prophylactically treat the things you would be targetting with a formalin dip (uronema, brook, monogeans). This might suggest its at a very low concentration similar to ruby reef rally. So the TLDR is it cant hurt but if you want to do things right, just get methylene blue and formalin and skip the safety stop