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update: Fish (cont.) |
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Hawkfish Go!
No changes. As my websites mascot, I'm thinking about throwing open a "name
the Flamehawk" contest for you guys. I'll decide
by next update. What do you think? Is my life really that over?
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Heniochus Go!
Gone. Not dead, just caught and traded back to my LFS after doing an excellent
job ridding the tank of Aiptasia…which was exactly what he was brought
in to do. So why, you ask, did I remove him then? Because I'm an idiot.
Actually, I let myself get frightened at the possibility of the fish doing
damage to my zoanthids and corals by listening to the gasps and machinations
of the few reefer acquaintances. Of course, a couple
weeks after removing him, I began to see signs of the pest anemones making
a come back so this time I'm trying
the Copperband. |
Hogfish Go!
Well, one day my little Twinspot is swimming along just like it's done
everyday since I got him then the next day, gone! Vanished. No dried husk on
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floor, no unrecognizable carcass under a mass of feeding hermits. No 'floater'.
No nothing. They used to call these things 'bummers'.
I'm not sure I want to know what they're referred
to as now…probably something with the words george bush in it. |
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though, this was pretty traumatic
as I'd really come to like
the little guy and his swift
and gliding movements around
the various
coral and live rock. A couple weeks later I was on the phone with my
LFS regarding a totally different matter when I brought up the odd
disappearance. Then almost sheepishly, and in a truly sincere (I believe)
effort to make me feel better came, "Well, we just got in a
Peppermint Hog". Yes, it cost me an armload of frags, but you've
got to admit some people just always know the right thing to say.
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Pseudochromis Go!
No changes. Still mean. Perhaps committed another murder (see
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Tangs Go!
No real changes. The Sohal is picking on the Purple Tang more and more
frequently now so I'm trying to remove it (the Purple) before it
gets hurt. He seems to ignore the other two for some reason although
at feeding time he won't let anyone get near the nori stone until
he's had his fill. Then again, I shouldn't say 'anyone' because
the truth is, there IS one fish he'll give Carte Blanche to and
it's the oddest pairing I've ever seen: It's the Peppermint
Hogfish. Now, you may think I'm making this up but I think my Sohal
and my Hogfish are in love. They swim around together like old friends,
they share nori off the feeding stone (the Sohal would kill any other
tankmate that would try this), and I've yet to see a territorial |
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