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itself
from the rock it had been on for years.
Here are a few shots of this process:  I
assumed by now it was all due to the
chemical reactions between it and its
tankmates so rather than try to reaffix
it somewhere else, we found it another
home with someone whose tank was far
more 'lps' friendly. It
is still too early to tell how it'll
adapt to its new digs; hopefully it'll
return to it's former glory.
In the meantime, I still have a couple
small but viable 'buds' that
will peek out from their live rock
from time to time and they look pretty
healthy. I'm missing the main
colony though. It's been with
me a long time, back to when the tank
was originally intended as softie/lps
dominant. So I wish it well, though
I must admit it still feels weird having
a coral walk out on me. I wonder
if there's any reef-specific
country western ballads that'll
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but with all the other changes, it
almost seems like the fish are an afterthought
this time. But they certainly are not,
and as you'll see, there are quite
a few additions here too… just
not many new species. |
Anthias Go!
Bartlett's
Anthias: By early-winter I had
only 6-7 Bartletts remaining and a
few of those were looking pretty old
and ragged. So I contacted the Marine
Center and ordered a dozen |
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more,
making sure they were small and 'sexless' to
avoid any problems. They all came
in alive and after a short period
of quarantine (It's not easy
keeping a dozen Anthias in a 15g
tank for any length of time without
the water turning into Mr. Clean),
they were introduced to the tank.
Things went surprisingly well. There
were few initial skirmishes though
some of the original females seemed
to enjoy 'herding' all
the newcomers into one area. After
awhile, even this behavior ceased
and there were no further problems.
At this point, I'd guess maybe
8 of the newcomers survived, bringing
the shoal back up to about 15 and
the new guys are growing rapidly.
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Anthias: :
With the demise (presumably of old
age) of all my Bicolors, I gave some
thought to acquiring a different type
of Anthias for variety. Because the
corals were taking up most of my attention,
I wasn't in the mood
to experiment with problematic or difficult
to keep species but I didn't
want anything too common either. A
call from my LFS brought the Olives
to my attention. Certainly not the
gaudiest of Anthias, they were quite
unusual so I brought home all they
had: 1 male, 5 females. After quarantine,
they adapted immediately to the tank.
They're a bit more shy than the
Bartletts and tend to stay on 'their' side
of the reef, but when together, they
have no problem making their presence
known. They are also a bit smaller
than the Bartletts and the two species
rarely |
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