Moorish Idol: Notebook

[Bifferwine]

Thanks. That was my halloween costume. I was a spider.

 

[Doc]

it would have been nice to get a full body shot

-Doc

 

[MikMcgyver]

there was one.... check the halloween time thread...:trampolin

 

[Bifferwine]

That's as close to full body as I've got...for Halloween pics, at least...

 

[Bifferwine]

Wow. What an excellent hijack just there.

 

[Doc]

that's more like it

-Doc

 

[Doc]

UPDATE

He did not eat today. I tried his usual fare that he has been eating, but did not eat today. He seemed totally uninterested. This what I feared. He is also looking skinney. It seems as if ANY competition for food is bad for Moorish Idols. This could be the beginning of the end

-Doc

 

[Bifferwine]

I will have my bugle on standby...

 

[yote]

Maybe he just wants something different.Would you want to have to eat the ole frozen crap every day?

 

[reeffreak]

I saved a casket for it!May God rest its soul,when the time comes.I would of photoshop your Moorish on the pic but I don't know how.

 

[Doc]

not dead yet. I think he ate some. I do vary the feeding between 5 different kinds of food.

-Doc

 

[Bifferwine]

I gave it two weeks, right? And this thread was started on November 16? Pretty damn close!!

 

[reeffreak]

We so mean!
We put the nail in the coffin before the poor Moorish died.I feeling bad Doc,I'm going to held a candlelight vigil for Moorish with lots of praying and holy water.

 

[Bifferwine]

Yes. Even though I am not a religious person, my fish are, so tonight Tariq ibn-Ziyad the moorish idol will be in all of their thoughts and prayers. In fact, Homer the kole is asking me if he can borrow my laptop to make a "Get Well Soon" banner for him.

 

[Doc]

he ate some more today. He ain't dead yet

-Doc

 

[Doc]

OK. Tariq is officially dead. I came home tonight to find his face buried in the live rock. He was all f&^ked up. It looked like the trigger fish was having her way with him. The eyes were already gone and the stomach was being ripped out. Triggers are like that, cheap fighters. It is not a sad day tho, so there will be no mourning at my home. I am now in the middle of a debate I have had for a long time. I will post my inner fight in a different post

-Doc

 

[Doc]

This is what I learned from keeping one alive for about three weeks.

They need a lot of swimming room.

They MUST be the biggest fish in the tank with little competition for food. They do eat, but tend to be really slow eaters, which is why they end up starving to death.

They seem to have a FAST metabolism and use up the food they eat fast, so they need to be fed often. I fed twice a day and that might be sufficient if there was no competition for food.

They are not aggressive toward other tankmates, but cannot be trusted with corals, they do eat LPS corals.

It would be a neat experiment for someone running a FOWLR tank with only smaller fish to try one and see if they have better success. I will try one again in the future, but only when I have a fourth tank

-Doc

 

[Bifferwine]

Sorry to hear about Tariq's unfortunate (but inevitable) demise, Doc.

Sorry, just had to get that zinger in there.

 

[HAWKS12thMAN]

Sorry to hear about your lose doc!

 

[Doc]

eh, like I said, now I get to choose a new direction for my tank

-Doc