40 Gallons with a few Soft Corals

[EricR]

Wrasses doing great in tank but too active to get good picture with iPhone:

Also got a halloween urchin and gold ring cowrie but the cowrie didn't make it:

 

[EricR]

Halloween urchin that I got last week seems to be doing well but doesn't look very Halloweeny:
*unless maybe it's really a different type of urchin?

Aside note -- I gave the XL Nassarius snails that I noted in post# 155 back to LFS. Didn't want to chance them being predatory.

 

[EricR]

Getting cyano on sand bed again (will be 2nd time since starting this tank in 10/2021).
New fish and urchin all settled in.

 

[EricR]

My recent "fun" is that my new alleged-Halloween urchin ate my tiny toadstool overnight.
Posted about that here:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/urchin-ate-small-toadstool.1168900/

EDIT -- it was suggested in that thread that urchin is really "Salmacis bicolor" and that looks to be a good ID.
Those and other, similar, Salmacis urchins are primarily algae eaters but will also eat soft-bodied corals so are considered reef safe "with CAUTION."

I guess that explains it.
I doubt the tiny toadstool will recover but it's been resilient through much neglect for years so we'll see.

 

[EricR]

Was trying to use my wife's DSLR to get a better picture of my 2x Carpenter's flasher wrasse that I received on 7/24/2026 from Dr. Reef's but I think these are even worse than my previous iPhone pictures:

 

[EricR]

Bad picture of my 10G invert QT setup.
Just pulled out container of sand that was covering left 1/4 or so for nassarius snails but didn't think to take a picture first.

Snails are all in main tank now with just a couple of small urchins left in QT -- one tuxedo and one tiny pincushion.

Here's the tiny $12 pincushion urchin from PetCo:

 

[EricR]

Current picture.
Nothing new or exciting.
Two Carpenter's flasher wrasse are still getting along fine although (from reading), I'm ready to expect some aggression and have to remove one at some point,,, but we'll see.