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[reeffreak]

Welcome to Living Reefs!

[lightcs4]

Welcome to LR, and thanks for serving !

[RyanG]

Welcome to the Reef!

[SemperFish]

I have a 4 bulb T-8 fluorescent system that was carried over from the FOWLER setup as Bifferwine suggested may be the case.
How long will an anemone last under insufficient light?
MH lighting is out of the question. If I need to, I will put direct LED light on it.

Yes AltoHombre, Zebra Morays can get fairly large. In the wild they are known to get up to 50 inches but captive eels never get much more than about 30-35. Right now he is about 26 inches and spends all day and most of the night in a space about 2 square feet. They are pretty efficient users of space. He is an outstanding community fish, real gentle and really cool. He loves to eat out of my daughters hand.

[daugherty]

look into a good set of t5's like the nova pros

[RyanG]

How old is your daughter?

Check out the videos that I posted a while ago about some moray action

http://www.livingreefs.com/forums/of...ay-action.html

[SemperFish]

I'll look into getting a T-5 setup.


My daughter is 8, and just as enthused about animals as I am. She has a pair or leopard geckos and a breeding pair of Veiled chameleons, I do very little of the work to take care of either, it's really cool to watch. She insists on naming every living thing in the house, except for my dart frogs since they are practically identical to one another.

Those are some Gnarly videos with the morays, and some incredibly stupid people.

Contrary to the video footage, however, it is possible to safely hand feed a moray. I wouldn't try it with a Green Moray, or any other aggressive fish hunter, but Zebras are far more docile than most other species and have blunt teeth designed to crush crustaceans, not to pierce flesh. Mine has nibbled me a few times while feeding, but is slow to bite. They have fairly strong jaws, but are too finicky to bite without knowing exactly what is in it's mouth. He's like a little, slimy, elongated puppy-dog.

[Oscarsdad608]

It is your daughters fingers I guess.

[Stupidsreef]

On the topic of BTA's. I recently removed my GBTA due to his wondering around. As I have a reef tank I couldn't take those chances. But I also have a brite RBTA who has split AGAIN. So I had 3 BTA's and with the green one on the move I took him to the LFS. Both my now RBTA's do not move, once the small one becomes good and large he'll go to the LFS to. If I have a roamer, he comes out. That's the advice I give to anyone with a reef tank. Unless it settles, it's not happy, and it will take out other corals in the process, best to take him back.

Back in 2004 I kept a GBTA under PC lighting for about 7 months. I had just started and that's what the LFS said was the "best" lighting out there. I found out different and went to MH. I didn't notice any differance with the BTA, but other things like the clams and a Favia took off in both size & color.

[RyanG]

I agree about the aggression that Zebra's display, just wanted you to know the risk that is being taken.