My new 29g FOWLR for those that wanted to see it.

[caferacermike]

The whole thing.



My first angler frog.



My sargassum from Port A.



The sargassum doing it's thing.



The toad fish



The infamous panther grouper.

[LoneStar]

Nice stuff. What kinda tank is that? One of the new Oceanic nanos?

[caferacermike]

Cheap Jebo 29 gallon that my friend sells wholesale. Paid about $50 for the tank, hood, and 70w PC lighting. Ther eis no built in filters, more like an all-glass tanks starter 10g than a JBJ type bio cube. I added a AquaC remora skimmer to the back. I also have a Marineland 350HOT canister around to polish the water if necessary. I'm hoping to get a local acrylic builder to make me a sump and fuge. If so I will be using my Euroreef skimmer on that 29g. My plan is to build a 20g fuge that the water will flow into and it will be on a shelve just under the tank. the water will flow down another tube into a 20g sump with the skimmer and a nice Eheim return pump. That way I can also add about 20g more water to the system ro keep it stabilized. Right now there is 5g of cultured live sand from a previous tank and about 10lbs live rock.

[JimD]

Sweet, how long have you had the Sargassum?

[hobogato]

nice job! very cool frog fish and sargassum frog

[BIGBIRD123]

Nice tank Mike.

Steve

[caferacermike]

I've had the frog for about 6 months. When I got it was so small I couldn't see it in the bag lol. It was jet black with white "toes". I had to have it. Impulse buy. Fortunately I knew what I was getting in to. He lived in the 10g refugium under my tank during that time and happily ate damsels, guppies, and shrimps. Grew up from about 1/2" to 3 1/2" in the fuge. I wanted to get it a nicer place cause the lights were on 24 hours. I got that tank and equipment way back in April. Problem was I kept asking cabinet shops to build me a stand for it and all promised but nothing was ever built. finally got a little stand for it and filled it up. I got the sargassum about 3 months ago from Road8514, Joe, here at Maast before he moved. Was well worth the drive to SA. That thing has doubled in size from about 1 1/2" to 4" in that same time.

Just for those that don't know, anglers can't swim very well as they lack a swim bladder. The sargassum has a swim bladder and floats along in the sea grasses. He can swim almost as good as any regular fish. Both have those great "jets" under the armpit area they use to cruise around with.

[Ross]

cool tank, how big is the toadfish and where did you get him?