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Originally Posted by bulletsworld
I agree with you Deb and Sam, 100%. After all your advice & how long you kept Moo for, it inspired me. I remember a few years back, I asked you, "what kind of coral is that?" Pointing to green star polyps, that looked nothing like it, cause Moo mowed it down so short.  Hey still looked like a cool coral though! Boy, was Moo a great example though and an amazing size for being captive in a tank. I would pat yourself on the back, as an amazing achievement, really.
I took your advice and I felt my idol was doing so good because I fed him corals and sponges also. Who cares if I lost a few corals. I would buy brown ugly zoo's and green star polyps, ect, but felt it helped the success of keeping mine for almost 2 years.
I never understood why people find out something eats a certain coral and for some reason they never end of feeding it that. Boggles me, really. |
Hehe. I don't want to participate in any arguments so I'll just post my thoughts in point form:
1. Needs highly oxygenated water, even more than angels. Power outages (without battery backup) of 1-2 hours probably is all that it takes to kill it in an average tank.
2. Needs lots of hiding places. Very easily stressed ; More easily stressed than any other fish I've kept. They probably do better in a reef tank due to more hiding places and fewer fish.
3. Will eat corals but does *NOT* need to eat corals to survive. Flakes was the main diet for my Idol before it outgrew my tank.
4. Probably does better alone than in pairs as they eventually stake out their territory once they have settled in and will kill other idols that can't get away (based on most accounts that I've read. most of the people who've kept them for years have just 1. I haven't read yet of anyone who has kept more than 1 idol for a long length of time in the same tank though I'm sure if someone has a tank the size of a pool, then it would be possible).
5. Not impossible to keep. But not tolerant of any mistakes made by the keeper.