Haters Gonna Hate

[MarkoD]

So today i brought home a moorish idol.

The LFS has had him quarantine for about 10 weeks now and he's eating NLS pellets. He looks healthy and chubby.

Brought him home, acclimated him for an hour, divided the tank with egg crate and put him in the right side alone. Purple tang and other tangs are in the left side.

now half an hour after putting him in. he's eating like a pig again

hopefully i will succeed. i really really love this fish

[Parker]

I hope he works out well for you!

[Coralgurl]

He's gorgeous, good luck!

[MarkoD]

thanks guys.

that picture is with only 2 SOL fixtures on there. still waiting for third one

[Leah]

Nice fishy! How come you are separating him from the others?

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by Leah

Nice fishy! How come you are separating him from the others?

i want him to get comfortable and im afraid my purple tang is gonna beat up on him

so ill give him a couple weeks to settle in and hopefully when i take the divider out, everyone will get along

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

The egg crate trick worked great for me in the past. I used to keep new tangs inside an egg crate enclosure until the old tangs got used to seeing, smelling, tasting? the new fish. Sometimes it only took a couple of days. Once it took a couple of weeks. Then I release the new fish and there is minimal chasing around because they've all had a chance to get used to the newcomer beforehand.

Good luck with the MI. I had one back in the 80s in my first fish only tank (not a fowlr since I didn't know what live rock was and you couldn't find live rock in the LFS anyways). Once acclimated and eating, I found mine to be very hardy. Only sold him off because I had to shut down my 110g and concentrate on my university studies

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

The egg crate trick worked great for me in the past. I used to keep new tangs inside an egg crate enclosure until the old tangs got used to seeing, smelling, tasting? the new fish. Sometimes it only took a couple of days. Once it took a couple of weeks. Then I release the new fish and there is minimal chasing around because they've all had a chance to get used to the newcomer beforehand.

Good luck with the MI. I had one back in the 80s in my first fish only tank (not a fowlr since I didn't know what live rock was and you couldn't find live rock in the LFS anyways). Once acclimated and eating, I found mine to be very hardy. Only sold him off because I had to shut down my 110g and concentrate on my university studies

Thanks for the encouraging words. I'm gonna keep the egg crate there at least 10 days. Hopefully my tangs won't mind too much

[FitoPharmer]

What type of NLS do you feed ?
The finicky fish version? Large marine fish? or something else?

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by FitoPharmer

What type of NLS do you feed ?
The finicky fish version? Large marine fish? or something else?

the 1mm cichlid formula.

same stuff that all my fish go crazy for