I don’t know exactly what they feed on but this is what I use generally. Phytoplankton (live & preserved), frozen copepods, red plankton, Calanus, lobster eggs, fish eggs, brine shrimp, Mysis, baby brineshrimp, dried reefroids, benepets & Brightwell reef blizzard-O
the big ones are interesting though, and it seems as if the worms are not as disturbed as some corals touched by the "webs". Thank you for the great pictures!
I’ve had the colony for 16 months now. I did lose a few of the worms during the first few months but since then the rest have been doing fine (I think). 😀
@@lisapage8939 Thanks for the update! Are you going to make another video entry soon? No pressure or anything. 🙂 The whole rock is full of wonder. A branching Cyphastrea is so alien looking and beautiful.
Sadly no, apparently this species has separate sexes so I would need a male and female to spawn at the same time and I only have the one. It has spawned on 3 separate occasions now that I know of. I have searched the shops for others in the hope of finding one of the opposite sex but this species is rarely imported to UK now. 😢 Congratulations on getting yours to spawn by way, did you record a video or have any photos? I would love to see them if you did. 😀
I haven’t found them to be too tricky but then I do feed a lot which helps. Regular additions of phytoplankton and other products and aimed at filter feeders. Also I don’t keep any fish likely to annoy the worms and/or may want to eat them. 😆
@@lisapage8939 oh I just got your message I don’t know how to video this morning I think I lost a worm it was laying on bottom with its crown have you ever had this happen??
@@christineschultz3176 The whole worm or just the feathery crown? My Coco worm has shed its crown before and regrown a new one after a few weeks. I’ve not seen any of the Christmas tree worms do the same but a few have vanished never to be seen again. 😕
Thanks for sharing! They are so awesome. My T. faulkneris spread allover the reef, the coccineas are a bit shy and the micrantha has a struggle with her inhabitants at the moment. And I have another more pale yellow that had not been named in the shop. The white and apricot ones are Balanophyllias?
Thank you! The Tubastraea does like to spread babies everywhere, 😆 The Balnophyllia is the solitary polyp to far left. As far as I am aware the orange and pale yellow colonies are branching Dendrophyllia. There is a large T. micrantha out of sight at the back sadly. Do you have some videos too? If so I need to see them. 😁
@@lisapage8939 I will do one tonight. Those I have are more shots by chnce filming the complete reef. Thank you for the information about the branching D.s
Yes, so far so good. I did lose a couple of worms right away and another couple more two months later, the rest however look great. They’ve extended their tubes which I take to be a good sign and the Cyphastrea is growing well too.
Thanks, I was gutted to lose the thorny. I should have listened to the literature who said they were difficult to keep. The good news is I still have the attached Frond oyster and Jewel box clam.
Another good video. I appreciated your ability to show us how shallow the water was where the black tip reef sharks were swimming. It's kind of scary to see how many of them there were around the dock. Do they get leftovers from the resort, so they aren't tempted to eat snorkelers. Lovely video of the turtles, too. Do you have any idea what the last turtle was eating?
Another great video. Interesting how those trumpetfish swam with the triggerfish and grouper. I've seen trumpetfish do that with parrotfish - in that case, they're shadow-stalking (shadow-feeding), making themselves hard to see while the parrotfish approaches a damselfish's algae "farm", then the trumpetfish zooms out at the end and tries to snatch the damsel. I thought triggerfish and groupers were carnivorous, so I'm not sure how it benefits the trumpetfish to try to hide next to them. I was also amazed at how many flutemouths (known as cornetfishes in the US) you saw. The largest grouping I ever saw was 11, but there appeared to be more than that in this video. I also enjoyed the halfbeaks. Schools of long, thin silvery fish often seem to like to swim in a line, and look like a river or ribbon of silver when you see them.
I'd never heard of grubfish and rudderfish before this video. In the US, grubfish are known as sandperches, and rudderfish are known as chubs. That longbarbel goatfish kicked up quite a lot of sand. I hope it got something for all its effort.
Another fabulous video! I'm trying to talk my husband into going to Fiji. He loves eels, so maybe this will help persuade him. I'm impressed by how much eel action you saw. In the Caribbean, we've sometimes seen groupers hunting with eels. Come to think of it, eels are desirable hunting partners with fish other than groupers in Hawaii. It helps to have eels scare tasty critters out of their hiding spots. I hope you will post more videos of creatures you saw in Fiji.
Another great video. I was intrigued by the 2 powderblue surgeonfish doing those tight circles. Do you know if that's a territorial or sexual display or something else? I've seen that kind of motion with other fish - a pair of white-spotted filefish (one in the orange color morph, the other white-spotted), a pair of spotted eagle rays, and a pair of Christmas wrasses (a terminal phase male and an initial phase) - and wondered what it meant.
Another fabulous video. I love that you got a front facing shot of the sabre squirrelfish - what cool markings that you wouldn't see with a side shot. I was also impressed that you got such wonderful footage of the giant moray. It had a really interesting pattern.
Wrasses are one of my favorite types of fish, so I really enjoyed this video. For those who have never tried to photograph a wrasse, it's more difficult than other types of fish because they move so quickly. The footage of the juvenile rockmover wrasse, known as a dragon wrasse to people who have saltwater aquariums, is particularly impressive. Well done!
I have never seen the orange spiky worm thing! He is fascinating! The tank is absolutely gorgeous. I would love to know what the different organisms are. The ones that look like bouquets of yellow (or other colors) anemones are breathtaking! I am going to check out your channel. PS. I had not looked at your name…I recognized it immediately because I have been looking at your videos of marine organisms in their natural environment. I didn’t know you did marine aquariums too. Well done! I am a new subscriber. Your video on butterfly fish is unforgettable. I had never seen most of those types. Thank you for posting videos of areas I will never see.
Thanks so much! I never thought to name things on my reef tank videos. I will try from now on. Here's a quick run down of those featured (tentative identification for some). 😀 Rhizotrochus sp. Cirrhipathes sp (yellow wire coral) and Protula bispiralis (red coco worm, top right) Balanophyllia sp. Tubastraea sp. (yellow sun coral and black sun coral underneath) Tubastraea sp. (yellow sun coral) Dendrophyllia sp. (pale yellow branching sun coral) Cirrhipathes sp. (orange wire coral) Tubastraea sp. (yellow sun coral) Holothuria hilla (tigertail cucumber) Tubastraea micrantha (black sun coral) Wetmorella tanakai (Possum wrasse) at the end
@@lisapage8939 Thank you Lisa! I grew up in Key West, Florida where we lived in a neighborhood on a small island. Most of my early life was spent in salt water studying the creatures I saw. I would have become a marine biologist if more jobs had been available when I got my degree. Those that existed were always along the US coast and I didn’t feel I would be close enough to my family. It is exactly where I ended up later on because I can’t seem to shake my need to be near the ocean! Now, the closest I can get is with a marine aquarium. I will be setting one up once I get a house with a generator. My nano tank was ruined because we lost power due to a hurricane, something that is part of our reality on the coast. It was traumatic coming home to what I knew to expect. I valued the lives of each of those little creatures. They had bigger and better personalities than most of the humans I know! Thank you for responding to my suggestion of identifying the aquarium inhabitants. I am in love with the spikey worm!
@@deborahmerkerson1145 Me too, I would have loved to have trained as a marine biologist. I had to be happy with just being a biologist. 😆 We are fortunate not to have too many power cuts here but still a generator gives peace of mind. A reef tank can go rapidly downhill without power as I know only too well. If you are interested in all things reef tank then I do have a website: www.lisasreef.weebly.com There are lots of photos and a diary of all my trials and tribulations. It's a work in progress as always.
@@lisapage8939 Lisa, we are two peas in a pod! My undergraduate degree is in Biology. I had started working on my Masters degree but because I married at 22 (big mistake!) one of us needed to earn a living. I began working full time and taking a course load of as many hours as they would allow, two graduate level courses per semester. The agreement with my husband was that when he finished his Masters I would get to go full time. That didn’t happen. He didn’t want me to quit my job…he liked having money! The University wouldn’t change requirements so I finished my Masters as an Education degree, rather than with a theoretical science degree. I taught high school science (Chemistry, Biology and Environmental Science) for six years and changed careers. I became a pharmaceutical chemist with a company that was completely vested in drug discovery. My area of research was with antivirals and anti cancer drugs. I loved it as much as I had teaching but it paid three timers better! I had a great career until I became disabled from a little understood illness that is now known to be a brain disease. I lost most of my chemistry and math skills because that part of the brain stopped working. I learned to count and can do basic math but anything else is impossible. I must spend time reading and writing daily or I will lose my language skills also. Bummer! I worry for people getting Covid-19 because some of the people who have had it are showing signs of my illness. I always suspected that a virus triggered it. They believe we are born with it and something triggers it. I was 44 and had the flu. Then it came back two weeks later. I was never the same. I began losing brain function but it was disguised by all the other things that were wrong. I do not want anyone to go through what I have. I will definitely check out your website! I have been looking for a house to buy for four years. This area has become too expensive because it attracts retirees. I am looking at moving towards the central part of my state, partly because houses are less expensive. My consolation is knowing that there are lots of pet stores with marine aquarium inhabitants in that area. I will love that. I will be less than a three hour drive to the coast so I can still see my beloved Atlantic Ocean!
What a fabulous video of some of the world's most beautiful fish! Thanks for sharing. The melon butterflyfish is also known as the Indian redfin butterflyfish. The difference in color of the base of the tail differentiates it from from the redfin, which is known as the oval butterflyfish in Hawaii. I love the redfin/oval butterflyfish. They look like they are lit up inside. The sunburst butterflyfish is also known as the blacklip butterflyfish.
Forster's hawkfish is also known as the freckled or blackside hawkfish. They're fairly common in the Hawaiian Islands, the only place I've snorkeled in the Pacific. I loved the footage of the shrimp and goby. Do you think the goby was a messy roommate that the shrimp had to clean up after, or was the shrimp trying to create a bigger home for its friend?
I think the burrow system always requires work of some sort, the pistol shrimp seem to shovel sand and move bits of rocks about endlessly. Water movement probably shifts the sand a little, also the shrimp are quite particular about their homes. Or maybe they just like to keep busy? 😀
I spent the whole trip keeping an eye out for octopus but never saw one in the flesh. I set up the camera on a tripod and walk away for 30 minutes and one pops out, typical. I wish I’d been there to see it with my own eyes. 😀
